Aunt Jennifers Tigers

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NCERT Class 12 English Core Chapter wise Solutions

Flamingo – Prose

• 1: The Last Lesson (Alphonse Daudet)
• 2: Lost Spring (Anees Jung)
• 3: Deep Water (William Douglas)
• 4: The Rattrap (Selma Lagerlof)
• 5: Indigo (Louis Fischer)
• 6: Going Places (A. R. Barton)

Flamingo – Poetry

• 1: My Mother at Sixty – Six (Kamala Das)
• 2: An Elementary School Classroom in a Slum (Stephen Spender)
• 3: Keeping Quiet (Pablo Neruda)
• 4: A Thing of Beauty (John Keats)
• 5: Aunt Jennifer’s Tigers (Adrienne Rich)

Vistas – Supplementary Reader

• 1: The Third Level (Jack Finney)
• 2. The Tiger King (Kalki)
• 3. Journey to the end of the Earth (Tishani Doshi)
• 4. The Enemy Pearl (S. Buck)
• 5. Should Wizard hit Mommy (John Updike)
• 6. On the face of It (Susan Hill)
• 7. Evans Tries an O-level (Colin Dexter)

NCERT Solutions for class 12 English Core Flamingo Aunt Jennifer’s Tigers

Before you Read

1.What does the title of the poem suggest to you? Are you reminded of other poems on tigers?

Think it Out

1. How do ‘denizens’ and ‘chivalric’ add to our understanding of the tiger’s attitudes?

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?

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

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

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?

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?

7. Interpret the symbols found in this poem.

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