Goodbye Party For  Miss Pushpa T.S. – Extract

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Goodbye Party For  Miss Pushpa T.S.

–                                                                                        By  Nissim Ezekiel

 Special English  – 12 th 

Poetry –

Extract

Q.1. Read the  following stanzas carefully and answer the  questions that follow them .

1. Friends,

Our dear sister is  

departing  for foreign

in  two – three days and 

We are  meeting today 

 to wish  her  bon  voyage  ( जलयान )

Questions :

1.Whom does the first line refers to ?

2. ………… is departing for foreign.
3. Find a word which means same as ‘ happy journey’?
4. Why are they meeting there?

Answer : 

1. The Audience or the friends of the poetare referred to in the first line.
2. The poet’s  Sister
3. Bon Voyage has a same  meaning  as a ‘happy journey’.
4. They are meeting there to wish for a happy journey to his sister Miss Pushpaa.

 

2. Miss Pushpa is coming 

from very high family.

Her father  was renowned advocate

in  Bulsar or Surat,

I am not remembering now which place.

Questions :

1. Who belongs to a very high family?
2. What does the last line refer to ?
3. Find a word from the above stanza which is opposite in meaning to ‘ infamous’?
4. Who was a renowned advocate?

Answers  :

1. Miss Pushpa belongs to a very high family.
2. The last line refers that the  poet exactly doesn’t remember to which place Miss Pushpa’s father belongs.
3. ‘Renowned’ has a opposite meaning to ‘ infamous’.
4. Miss Pushpa’s father was a renowned advocate.

 

3. Whatever I or anybody is asking

She is always  saying yes ,

and today she is going

 to  improve her  prospect

 and we are wishing  her  bon  voyage.

Questions :

1. Find a word from the above stanza which is similar  in meaning to ‘develop’
2. The audience is meeting to wish her ………
3. What does she say  when anyone asks her for anything?
4. Why is she going to foreign?

Answers :

1. Improve has similar meaning to  ‘develop’.
2. Bon voyage.
3. She always says ‘yes’ when anyone asks her for anything.
4. She is going to foreign to improve her prospect.

Goodbye Party For  Miss Pushpa T.S. – Extract

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