Class 12 poetry lesson 6 Aunt Jennifer's Tigers Central idea and questions answers

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 Class 12 poetry lesson 6 Aunt Jennifer's Tigers Central idea and questions answers:–

Explanations

1. Explain with reference to the context of the following stanzas:

(a) Aunt Jennifer's........ sleek chivalric certainty. 

Reference to the Context: The above given lines have been taken from the poem Aunt Jennifer's Tigers' written by Adrienne Rich. The lines introduce the tigers made aunt Jennifer and the activities of the tigers. 

Explanation: Aunt Jennifer is an old lady who created (wove) the images of tigers on a screen (panel). These tigers are shown in running condition. They are the shining dwellers like gem topaz of the green world, the forest. Their natural abode is the forest. They are naturally very bold, they do not fear the men beneath the tree, they are symbolically bold, daring. No human being can make them fearful. Those tigers are found in the images as well as in the forest) running with decency. mightiness and confidence. They know, they are confident that they are the most powerful. 

(b) Aunt Jennifer's fingers ................ Aunt Jennifer's hand. 

Reference to the Context: This stanza has been taken from the poem 'Aunt Jennifer's Tigers composed by Adrienne Rich'. The stanza tells about the old age condition of aunt Jennifer and her everlasting responsibilities. 

Explanation: Aunt Jennifer has shouldered all those responsibilities which a married women bear and fulfil in her life. But now she has grown old and even weaving the wool, some clothing i hard for her. Her fingers are trembling while weaving and now her hands have become so weak that she finds the very light-weighted ivory needle to pull from the wool. Now her hands, her body, her soul has been so much tired that she is unable to continue, bear the married life responsibilities and boundations. Uncle has laden hundreds of responsibilities on her shoulders in the symbolic form of aring or bracelet which seems heavy upon Aunt Jennifer's hands.

(c)  When Aunt is........... proud and unafraid.

Reference to the Context: These lines have been extracted from the poem Aunt Jennifer's Tigers composed by Adrienne Rich'. These lines tell about the final aftermath of Aunt Jennifer. 

Explanation: Aunt Jennifer has fulfilled all required responsibilities of married life till her last time. Now she is dead but what is extremely painful that even after her death, her hands found terrified, terrorized, fearful as those are bounded still now. Even now, the ring is found in her hands and that ring are the symbol that aunt Jennifer is still bounded like a slave. That ring is that ornament which bounded aunt Jennifer for whole life, even after her death. She has gone but the tigers which she had made in the panel will go on prancing, running with proud and bravery. Those tigers never fear from anybody.

2. Give the Central Idea of the poem 'Aunt Jennifer's Tigers'.

Ans.

Central Idea

Aunt Jennifer's Tigers is a imaginary as well as pathetic poem composed by poet Adrienne Rich She presents the fortune and final conclusion of a lady characterized as Aunt Jennifer' who passed her whole life under the boundations and responsibilities after her marriage. She silently born and faced all pressure and exploitations for whole life. She weaves some tigers images which represent her internal desires and feelings but actually she lived a weak and timid life. Even after becoming old, she didn't get free from household duties. Her husband, the uncle made her wear a ring which was in her hand after her death also which shows that she couldn't be free till then. A weakness and fear always remained stay in her heart.