NCERT Class 12 Chapter 13 Hamingo Question Answer। Aunt Jennifer’s Tigers। English Medium।

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1. How do ‘denizens’ and ‘chivalric’ add to our understanding of

the tiger’s attitudes?

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2. Why do you think Aunt Jennifer’s hands are ‘fluttering through

her wool’ in the second stanza? Why is she finding the needle so

hard to pull?

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3. What is suggested by the image ‘massive weight of Uncle’s

wedding band’?

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4. Of what or of whom is Aunt Jennifer terrified with in the third

stanza?

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5. What are the ‘ordeals’ Aunt Jennifer is surrounded by, why is it

significant that the poet uses the word ‘ringed’? What are the

meanings of the word ‘ringed’ in the poem?

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6. Why do you think Aunt Jennifer created animals that are so

different from her own character? What might the poet be

suggesting, through this difference?

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7. Interpret the symbols found in this poem.

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8. Do you sympathise with Aunt Jennifer. What is the attitude of

the speaker towards Aunt Jennifer?

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