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HOME ASSIGNMENT: AUNT JENNIFER’S TIGERS
A. Read the extracts and answer the questions that follow
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
1. Describe Aunt Jennifer’s tigers.
2. How does denizens add to our understanding of Aunt Jennifer’s tigers?
3.How do the tigers move?
4.Why are the tiger’s called Aunt Jennifer’s tigers?
B. 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.
1. Name the Poet and the poem.
2 What does the word ‘ringed’ signify?
3. Identify the figure of speech used in the last line
SHORT QUESTIONS
1.Describe the tigers created by Aunt Jennifer?
2.How is the Aunt different from her tigers?
3.Explain the massive weight of the uncle’s wedding band?
4.Why does the Aunt create animals that are so different from her?
5.What will happen to her tigers after her death?
6.What are the difficulties faced by the Aunt?
7.How does the Aunt express her bitterness and anger against male dominance?
8.Descibe the appropriateness of the title of the poem?
