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Childhood Class 11

QUESTIONS FROM TEXTBOOK SOLVED


A. Think it Out

Question 1:
Identify the stanza that talks of each of the following:
Individuality,rationalism, hypocrisy
Answer:
The stanzas that talk of each of the quality in questions are given below:

 individuality: Third stanza


 rationalism: First stanza
 hypocrisy: Second stanza

Question 2:
What according to the poem, is involved in the process of growing up?
Answer:
According to the poem, the loss of childhood is involved in the process of growing up.
This loss is compensated by some gains which come with adolescence. These are:
increase in understanding, power of rationalising and discrimination as well as a sense
of individuality and self-confidence.

Question 3:
What are the poet’s feelings towards childhood?
Answer:
The poet regards childhood as an important stage in the process of growing up.
Childhood is a period of make-believe. Children readily accept whatever the elders say.
The poet does not feel any regret or sense of loss on losing his childhood.

Question 4:
Which, do you think are the most poetic lines? Why?
Answer:
The following lines in the poem are most poetic:
It went to some forgotten place That’s hidden in an infant’s face,
That’s all I know.
These lines beautifully sum up the process of growth and the disappearance of a
particular stage of life. These lines have a figurative or metaphorical meaning also. The
infant’s innocent face hides many things behind its smiles. Perhaps the childhood lies
hidden in some forgotten place lying buried deep inside a child’s consciousness.

Childhood Summary – In the poem, the poet wonders when he lost his childhood and
the innocence he had. He became conscious that he no longer sees the world as he did
earlier and he can sense the hypocrisy in people. He recalled many instances in his life
when he could have lost his childhood. He wondered if it was the day he ceased to be
eleven or he realized that Hell and Heaven didn’t exist in this world and no one could
find them in the geography. Next, he talks about the possibility when he realized that
adults are not what they seemed to be and they are hypocrites. They talk and preach of
love but their actions don’t say so. Was it the day when he realized that his mind was his
own and capable of producing his own thoughts? No one could own that and he is an
individual with his particular personality. In the last stanza, he talks about the
whereabouts of his childhood. He concludes that it had gone to some forgotten place
and it can only be found in the innocent face of an infant.

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