Q5.
Read the following poem and answer the question given below by choosing from the given options : Afternoons
Summer is fading: The Leaves fall in ones and twos
From trees bordering The new recreation ground. In the hollows of afternoons
Young mothers assemble At swing and sandpit Setting free their children ,
Behind them at intervals , Stand husbands in skilled trades ,
An estateful of washing , And the albums . lettered Our wedding, lying
Near the television: Before them, the wind
Is ruining their courting-places
That are still courting-places (But lovers are all in school) ,
And their children , so intent on
Finding more unripe acorns,
Expect to be taken home,
Their beauty has thickened. Something is pushing them
To the side of their own lives . Which of the following expressions best evokes the theme of emptiness?
- (1) hollows of the afternoons
- (2) an estateful of washing
- (3) the albums lettered "Our Wedding"
- (4) the wind is ruining their courting - places