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The document discusses the poem 'Amanda' and explores Amanda's feelings of being nagged and her desire for freedom through her imagination. It highlights the importance of understanding and patience from parents, emphasizing that constant correction can lead to a child's frustration and moodiness. The analysis also identifies various poetic devices used in the poem, such as metaphor and allusion.

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Amanda RTC

The document discusses the poem 'Amanda' and explores Amanda's feelings of being nagged and her desire for freedom through her imagination. It highlights the importance of understanding and patience from parents, emphasizing that constant correction can lead to a child's frustration and moodiness. The analysis also identifies various poetic devices used in the poem, such as metaphor and allusion.

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Amanda RTC

Q1.
Don’t eat that chocolate, Amanda!
Remember your acne, Amanda!
Will you please look at me when I’m speaking to you,
Amanda!
(a) Why is Amanda not looking at the speaker?
(b) Find the word in the extract which means same as consume?
(c) The speaker is so worried about acne. What does it show?
(d) Which word in the extract means the same as ‘to gaze’? [CBSE
2016]
Ans:
(a) Amanda is lost in her own thoughts and is paying no attention to
instructions being given to her. That is why she is not looking at the
speaker.
(b) Eat means same as consume.
(c) Speaker being worried about acne shows how much importance
is given to physical beauty in a household. Amanda is prepared for
the unforeseen future. Natural experience such as acne is also taken
care of at any cost.
(d) To look means the same as ‘to gaze’.

Q2.
(I am an orphan, roaming the street,
I pattern soft dust with my hushed, bare feet.
The silence is golden, the freedom is sweet.)
(a) How come silence is golden?
(b) Give a synonym of ‘roaming’.
(c) What is Amanda up to in this stanza?
(d) What poetic device is used in this stanza?
Ans:
(a) Silence is shown golden using the poetic device metaphor. By
making silence golden the poet is estimating the worth of silence.
For Amanda seeks peace and calmness, which is absent in her
reality.
(b) Wandering.
(c) Amanda is again taking refuge in her imagination. Here, she
wishes to be an orphan, away from her nagging parents. Amanda
wants to roam aimlessly in streets and draw patterns using just her
bare feet.
(d) The poet uses metaphor such as ‘orphan’, ‘silence is golden’, and
‘freedom is sweet’.

Q3.
(I am Rapunzel, I have not a care;
life in a tower is tranquil and rare;
I’ll certainly never let down my bright hair)
(a) Does Amanda live on a tower?
(b) Why will Amanda not let down her bright hair?
(c) What is the underlying poetic device used in this stanza?
(d) Find from the passage a word which means the same as
‘serene’.
Ans:
(a) No, Amanda stays at her place. Here, she is imagining herself to
be Rapunzel who lived on a tower.
(b) Amanda is aware about the story of Rapunzel. In the story of
Rapunzel all the mishappening and misfortunes are brought to her
by letting down the hair. Amanda also wishes to live alone apd
carefree, without any disturbance.
(c) Poet uses allusion here as the underlying poetic device.
(d) The word is ‘tranquil’.

Q4.
Stop that sulking at once, Amanda!
You’re always so moody, Amanda!
Anyone would think that I nagged at you,
Amanda!
(a) Is Amanda really sulking?
(b) Why does the speaker care for others?
(c) Give the word from the passage which means same as unstable.
(d) What poetic device has been used in the first line of this stanza?
Ans:
(a) Amanda is not sulking. She just doesn’t care about instructions
given to her as she is lost in a world of her own.
(b) The whole poem revolves around the aspect that how one is
presented in a society. Speaker doesn’t wish to be regarded as a
nagging parent in the society, so Amanda is expected to put up a
happy face all the time.
(c) Moody means same as unstable.
(d) ‘Alliteration’ has been used in the first line; words ‘stop’ and
‘sulking’ start with the same sound.

Q1.Why does Amanda seem moody most of the times? [CBSE


2016]
Answer:
Amanda seems moody most of the time because she is trying to
make an escape from her sorry reality where she is nagged most of
the times. It is indeed a sorry state for a small child like Amanda to
bear. Here the only defence against such reality is her imagination
where she often escapes to.
Hence, it makes her look moody and uninterested.
Q2.State the key points in the poem Amanda. What do you learn
from it? [CBSE2016]
Answer:
Every child is special in itself, and it requires a great deal of patience
and love to make them understand this. Parents should give proper
space to children, as they learn through experiences as well.
Children do tend to learn certain bad habits, to undo that requires
great level of understanding and right approach. One cannot teach
their child everything in one day and expect them to behave
properly henceforth. It is natural for a child like Amanda to seek
freedom at her place, to curb that freedom means to make her
angry and moody. Growing up of child should not be about dos and
don’ts only. To have nagging parents judging every action of child
would do more harm than good. Robin Klein points to the fact that
Amanda is forbidden to do anything without seeking permission.
Everything she does it is corrected by her mother all the time, she
cannot perform a single thing according to her will. She can’t sit
lazily around, she can’t eat chocolate for that could cause acne. Life
of Amanda is very suffocating and limited in itself. She yearns for
freedom and choice. Her mother doesn’t understand the fact that
Amanda is innocent and naive, she is too small to understand the
benefits of advice. Only thing that matters to Amanda’s mother is
what society will make of Amanda. We witness miserable failure of
parents when Amanda wishes to be an orphan so that she could be
free

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