How does th poet feel when he says. "While I looked the other way, pretending to smile.I longed to forgive them ..."

He wanted to be friends with them.

Which lines show that the poet is envious of their lifestyle?

They were lithe they sprang out behind hedges

Why does the poet use enjambment in the poem?

To create a continuity of thought flowing through the verse and the poems.

My parents kept me from children who were roughWho threw words like stones and wore torn clothes

The literary devices simile, metaphor and enjambment.

The examples of 'simile' in the poem are

I feared more than tigers their muscles like iron

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MY PARENTS (POEM)

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Which sentence given below shows the divide that exists between his society and that of the other children in the poem?
While I looked the other way, pretending to smile.
Who copied my lisp behind me on the road
Like dogs to bark at my world.
I feared more than tigers their muscles like iron
2
'And climbed cliffs and stripped by the country streams.' The poet envies their freedom
True
False
3
How does th poet feel when he says. "While I looked the other way, pretending to smile.I longed to forgive them ..."
He wanted to be friends with them.
He wants the boys to apologise to him.
He was hurt by their words and
He is glad that his parents protected him form the bullies.
4
'I feared the salt coarse pointing of those boys' What does the poet mean by 'salt coarse'?
weird
Fearful
Flavourful -
Hurtful
5
Which lines show that the poet is envious of their lifestyle?
They were lithe they sprang out behind hedges
Their thighs showed through rags they ran in
Their jerking hands and their knees tight on my arms
Who copied my lisp behind me on the road.
6
What does the use of the word 'kept' signify in the first stanza?
They protected him from being bullied by the street children,
All the options are correct
He blames them for the attitude of the street children towards him.
They restricted him from meeting the kids on the street.
7
The poet of the poem 'My Parents' is
Kamala Das
Stephen Spender
Walt Whitman
Ruskin Bond
8
Why does the poet use enjambment in the poem?
To characterise the persona of the poem
To emphasize the difference between him and the other boys.
To create a continuity of thought flowing through the verse and the poems.
To show a comparision between the persona and other boys in the poem
9
My parents kept me from children who were roughWho threw words like stones and wore torn clothes
The literary devices simile, metaphor and enjambment.
The literary devices personification and foreshadowing
All the options are correct
The literary devices simile and enjambment.
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The examples of 'simile' in the poem are
Their thighs showed through rags they ran in the street
I feared more than tigers their muscles like iron
Who copied my lisp behind me on the road.
My parents kept me from children who were rough

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