Q7.
Read the poem carefully and answer the questions that follow :
She has deliberately left
her comb here. Its teeth are
her fingers in my childhood hair.
Somewhere, some stories - memoried
somehow are tangled therein.
It smells of her armpit... clinging
to her under a rustic night, long
long, long ago...
Its icicled silence - all wintered
combs a motherly warmth.
I've summered away
all life though...
But the comb parts and smoothes
my webbed head - straightens and
cleans all cosmic dirt.
when I use it in my wet hair
little droplets lurk on its eyelashes.
Some unfulfilled dream
of a mother
weeps out a sonny failure.
Am I the culprit ?
The judge or the solicitor ?
The hammer is there
The comb is here
left for me....
- (1) The lady in the poem is
- (a) The speaker's Mistress
- (b) The poet's wife
- (c) The poet's mother
- (d) The poet's sister
- (2) The presence of the comb in the poem evokes
- (a) Nostalgia of the speaker's childhood
- (b) Pity in the Speaker's mind
- (c) Envy for the beloved
- (d) Pangs of separation