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Amanda, The Tress and Fog Practice Sheet - 10

1. Don”t eat the chocolate, Amanda Remember your

acne, Amanda! Will you please look at me when I’m 5. The fog comes on little cat feet. It sits looking over
speaking to you Amanda! harbour and city on silent haunches and then moves
(a) Who is scolding Amanda? on.
(b) Amanda should not eat chocolate because ___. (a) What does the poet mean by little cat feet?
(c) Amanda does not look at the speaker because __. (b) What do haunches mean?
(d) Which word in the passage refers to ‘memorize’? (c) How is the fog looking over the harbour and the
[Board Term 1,2012; EL2 – 016] city?
(d) “It sits looking….” what poetic device has been
2. I am an orphan, roaming the street, used here? [CBSE 2012]
I pattern soft dust with my hushed, bare feet.
The silence is golden, the freedom is sweet. 6. All night the roots work to disengage themselves
(a) How come silence is golden? from the cracks in the veranda floor. The leaves strain
(b) Give a synonym of ‘roaming’. toward the glass. Small twigs stiff with exertion.
(c) What is Amanda up to in this stanza? Long-cramped boughs shuffling under the roof like
(d) What poetic device is used in this stanza? newly discharged patients half-dazed, moving to the
clinic doors.
3. Stop that sulking at once, Amanda! (a) Why do the roots work all night?
You’re always so moody, Amanda! (b) Why do the twigs get stiff?
Anyone would think that I nagged at you, (c) Which word means “to get free” in the stanza?
Amanda! (d) Which poetic device has been used in the last
(a) Is Amanda really sulking? line of the passage?
(b) Why does the speaker care for others?
(c) Give the word from the passage which means the 7. I sit inside, doors open to the veranda writing long
same as unstable. letters in which I scarcely mention the departure of
(d) What poetic device has been used in the first line the forest from the house.
of this stanza?
(a) Find the word from the passage which means
‘hardly’.
4. My head is full of whispers which tomorrow will be
(b) What is she doing?
silent. Listen. The glass is breaking. The trees are
(c) Where are the trees in the poem?
stumbling forward into the night. Winds rush to meet
them. The moon is broken like a mirror, its pieces (d) What do you mean by veranda?
flash now in the crown of the tallest oak. Short Answer Type Questions:
[CBSE 2016]
(a) Why would the whispers be silent tomorrow? 8. What is Amanda’s desire? Why?
(b) Why are the trees stumbling?
(c) Which word in the stanza means the same as 9. In the poem “The Trees”, the poet compares the trees
‘Quiet’? to “newly discharged patients”. Highlight any two
(d) Which poetic device has been used in the sixth reasons for the same. [CBSE Q B, 2020-21]
line of the stanza?
10. The process of “moving out” was tedious for the trees. 14. In the poem “Fog”, the poet features the fog as
Support the statement with reference to the poem. animated. If you had to write a similar poem for one
[CBSE Q B, 2020-21] other natural phenomenon, which animal would you
11. What is the age of the girl in the poem? How do you use to convey the characteristics of that particular
come to know her age? phenomena? Justify, in detail, your choice of animal
corresponding to it by bringing out similarities.
Long Answer Type Questions:

12. What do you learn from the poem ‘Amanda’? 15. Comment, in detail, on the significance of the closing
phrase of the poem- “moves on”.
13. The poem ‘Trees’ appears to be about trees,
environment, deforestation and afforestation. On a
deeper level we discover that Adrienne Rich is
expressing her concern about women and their
emancipation. Elaborate with reference to the poem.
[CBSE Q B, 2020-21]

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 ANSWER KEY
1. (a) Amanda’s mother is scolding her.
(b) it will cause acne. 7. (a) The word is ‘scarcely.’
(c) she is displeased with her. (b) She was writing long letters.
(d) The word in the passage that refers to (c) The trees are inside the house in the poem.
‘memorize’ is remember. (d) Veranda means a platform with an open front
built on the ground floor of a home.
2. (a) Silence is shown golden using the poetic device
metaphor. By making silence golden the poet is 8. Amanda’s desires herself to be an orphan as she
estimating the worth of silence. For Amanda wants to live a life of her own without any
seeks peace and calmness, which is absent in her disturbance. She feels troubled by her parents.
real life.
(b) The synonym of ‘roaming’ is ‘wandering.’ 9. In the poem, the poet compares the ‘trees’ to ‘newly
(c) Amanda is again taking refuge in her discharged patients’.
imagination. Here, she wishes to be an orphan, Firstly, the trees were enslaved inside the house like
away from her nagging parents. Amanda wants patients in the hospital. Secondly, the trees were
to roam aimlessly in streets and draw patterns exerted like patients, due to the effort that they had
using just her bare feet. to put in order to be freed from the house.
(d) The poet uses metaphors such as ‘orphan’,
‘silence is golden’, and ‘freedom is sweet’. 10. Every part of the confined trees rises in revolt and
struggles hard to free itself. The roots and leaves
3. (a) Amanda is not sulking. She just doesn’t care struggle to come out of the glass. Small twigs
about instructions given to her as she is lost in a become hard due to over work and the long-cramped
world of her own. boughs are trying to break open the roof. So ‘moving
(b) The whole poem revolves around the aspect of out’ is tedious for trees.
how one is presented in a society. Speaker
doesn’t wish to be regarded as a nagging parent 11. Amanda is a nine to ten years old school going girl.
in the society, so Amanda is expected to put up a This fact is known because her parents are trying to
happy face all the time. inculcate good habits in her, but she is very innocent
(c) ‘Moody’ means the same as unstable. and immature.
(d) ‘Alliteration’ has been used in the first line;
words ‘stop and ‘sulking’ start with the same 12. The poem ‘Amanda’ teaches us that children tend to
sound. learn bad habits. Any child can not be taught good
lessons of life in one day. It is natural for a child like
4. (a) The whispers will be silent because the trees will Amanda to seek freedom. Parents who are judging
move outside to the forest. their children every time would do more harm than
(b) The trees are stumbling because they hurry to good. She is corrected every time by her parents. As
move outside after breaking the glass. a result, we witness the miserable failure of parents
(c) The word is ‘Silent’. when Amanda wishes to be an orphan so that she
(d) Simile has been used using ‘like’ for could be free.
comparison.
13. In her poem ‘The Tree’ poetess Adrienne Rich subtly
5. (a) Little cat feet here represent the silent and careful drives home the message about the importance of
steps of a cat. The way fog comes, resembles the trees. Without trees, the birds would have no place to
steps of a cat. sit, insects would have no place to hide and the sun
(b) Haunches mean hips. would not bury its feet in shadow. The trees do not
(c) The fog looks over the harbour and the city by look attractive indoors. The poetess hereby
sitting on its haunches like a cat. emphasizes that trees need to be kept alive, but
(d) Metaphor is used here. should not be ‘imprisoned’ inside the house as they
look more beautiful and tend to thrive outdoors that
6. (a) The roots work all night so that they can free is where trees belong.
themselves from the walls put around them by On the deeper level, we discover that Adrienne Rich
humans. her concern about women and their emancipation.
(b) The twigs get stiff due to the pressure they apply The liberation of the crushed women is based on the
on the glasses. same theme. In a male-dominated society, women
(c) The word is ‘disengage’. are struggling to come out of the clutches of men to
(d) ‘Simile’ has been used here using ‘like’ for gain freedom. The victorious march of the trees gives
comparison in the line ‘Long-cramped boughs a message of hope that mature can’t be tamed or
shuffling under the roof like newly discharged subdued by the onslaughts and arrogance of man.
patients‘.
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14. The poem ‘Fog’ describes the advancement of fog 15. The fog comes hovering and stays for a little period
toward the city and harbour. He says the fog comes of time over the city like a cat that comes silently and
like a cat comes on its little feet. This means the fog sits on its haunches for a short period of time. Like a
advances towards the city very slowly and calmly stalking cat, fog moves on. It disappears silently
just like a cat. It enters our home in an unpredictable unnoticed as the cat is not to be found at the same
manner. place.
Similarly, the zigzag movement of the flowing river The poet highlights the temporariness or the transient
can be compared to the zigzag movement of a snake. nature of the naturally happening fog. It is not there
Just like the river water never flows in a straight to stay for long as it moves to further destinations.
manner in the same way the snake can never walk
straight. Its movement is graceful and beautiful.
Many poets have described the wavy motion of the
snake with that of the wavy water.

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