NCERT Solutions For Class 12 Flamingo English Aunt Jennifer’s Tigers

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 Poem = Aunt Jennifer’s Tigers

Ques. 1: How do ‘denizen and chivalric’ add to our understanding of the tigers attitudes?

Ans:     Tigers belongs to the forest. The word ‘denizens’ tells us that they are dwellers of the forest. They move boldly and confidently. So the two words add to our understanding of the tiger’s attitude.

Ques. 2: What is suggested by the images ‘massive weight’ of uncle’s wedding band?

Ans:     The imagery massive weight of Uncle’s wedding band suggests the difficulty and painful experiences of her married life. She feels heavy pressure of the ordeal of her marriage.

Ques. 3: What do you know about the married life of Aunt Jennifer?

Ans:     Aunt Jennifer’s life is a failure. She is apprised and suppressed. She is terrified of her dominating husband. She is dissatisfied with her life.

Ques. 4: Why did Jennifer choose to embroider tigers on the panel?

Ans:     Aunt Jennifer embroidered tigers which jumped fearlessly and confidently across the screen. They walked in a dignified manner. She created fearless tigers to convey her hidden longings to be fearless, careless and dignified.

IMPORTANT STANZAS FOR COMPREHENSION

Read the stanzas given below and answer the questions that follow each:

1. Aunt Jennifer’s tigers prance across a screen,
Bright topaz denizens of a world of green.

They do not fear the men beneath the tree:

They pace in sleek chivalric certainty.

Questions
(a) Name the poem and the poet of these lines.
(b) What are Aunt Jennifer’s tigers doing? How do they look like?
(c) Where do they live? Are they fearless? Give an example.
(d) How do they pace?

Answers:
(а) The poem is 'Aunt Jennifer’s Tigers' & 'The poet is Adrienne Rich'.
(b) They are jumping across a screen or a wall. They look like shining yellow topaz.
(c) They live in green forests. They are fearless. They don’t fear the men under the tree.
(d) They run with a well-groomed, honorable confidence.

2. Aunt Jennifer’s fingers fluttering through her wool Find even the ivory needle hard to pull.
The massive weight of Uncle’s wedding band
Sits heavily upon Aunt Jennifer’s hand.

Questions
(a)What were Aunt Jennifer’s fingers fluttering through?
(b)How was she pulling the needle?
(c)What was lying heavily? Where?
(d)What was upon Aunt Jennifer’s hand? How did it sit there?

Answers:
(a) Aunt Jennifer’s fingers were fluttering through her wool.
(b) She was finding even the ivory needle hard to pull.
(c) The weight of Uncle’s wedding band was lying heavily on her hand.
(d) There was uncle’s wedding band upon Aunt Jennifer’s hand. It sat heavily there.

3. When Aunt is dead, her terrified hands will lie
Still ringed with ordeals she was mastered by.
The tigers in the panel that she made
Will go on prancing, proud and unafraid.

Questions
(a) Why are Aunt Jennifer’s hands called ‘terrified’’?
(b) What are they still ringed with?
(c) Where did she make the tigers?
(d) What will happen to her tigers after her death?

Answers:
(а) Her hands are called terrified because they passed through very hard and bitter experience of married life.
(b) They are still ringed with those hard and testing difficulties which possessed her dining her life.
(c) She made the tigers in the panel.
(d) Her tigers will go on jumping ahead, proud and unafraid even after her death.