Std 11th, 12th NCERT syllabus sollutions .

My mother at sixty six summary line by line explanation Driving from my parent’s home to Cochin last Friday morning, I saw my mother, beside me, In these lines, the poet recalls a trip back to Cochin from her holiday in her parents’ house the previous week. It was a Friday, and that morning, she was driving with her mother next to her on the front seat. Lines 5 – 10: doze, open mouthed, her face ashen like that of a corpse and realised with pain that she was as old as she looked but soon put that thought away, and In these lines, the poet says that she was observing her mother who had fallen asleep on the front seat with her mouth slightly open. Her mother’s face was pale, and it reminded her of the nearly white faces of dead bodies. It is then that she comes to realize that her mother was not young any longer, and that her appearance had caught up with her age. This was very hard for the poet to accept, and so she was determined to focus her attention on something else. Lines 11 – 15:...

A Photograph Poem Summary in English Line By Line Explanation by Shirley Toulson About the Poet Shirley Toulson Name Shirley Toulson Born 20 May 1924, Henley-on-Thames, United Kingdom Died 15th May 2014 Education B.A Literature from Brockenhurst College in London Books The Drovers, The Celtic Year a Celebration of Celtic Christian Saints Sites and Festivals More Shirley Toulson A Photograph Central Idea of the Poem Shirley Toulson’s poem ‘A Photograph’ is a tribute to her mother. The poem describes three stages in the passage of time. In the first stage, the photograph shows the poet’s mother standing at the beach enjoying her holiday with her two girl cousins. She was around 12 years old at that time. The second stage takes us twenty or thirty years later. The mother would laugh at the way she and her cousins were dressed up for the beach holiday. In the third stage, the poet remembers the dead mother with a heavy heart. The photograph revives a nostalgic feeling in the poet. A Photog...

A roadside stand  is a poem written by the highly-acclaimed poet,  Robert Frost  who is regarded for his realistic depiction of rural life using which he touched several difficult social themes of the time. In this poem, the poet highlights the plight of the deprived villagers who are aching for some money to lead a prosperous life. The poet is also very critical of the way the city folks treat these villagers who are selling their locally produced goods and whizzing past them without a sense of empathy. Lines 1-6 The occupants of the little old house have extended the shed in front, around the edge of the road where traffic passes by. Though it would be unfair to state that the shack-owners wanted a charity of bread, but nevertheless they seemed to implore the passers-by to stop and buy something from the shack. These deprived people long for the feel of the currency, the circulation of which flourishes the city folks. Lines 7-15 But unfortunately, the refined traffic wh...