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About the Poet
Edgar Albert Guest (1881–1959) was a British-born American poet. He was famously known as the People’s Poet.
His poems often had an insightful and optimistic view of life.
Time to answer
Answer these questions.
1. What is the tone of the poem?
admiring and comical sad but entertaining
formal and sentimental critical and harsh
2. Which of these could be the summary of the poem?
Fathers cannot fix simple household things.
In a household, mothers are better than fathers.
Only children can fully understand their fathers.
Fathers can talk a lot but when it comes to the action of simple tasks, they fail.
3. Where can the father do wondrous things?
in mending the confidence in transaction
in theories in conversation
4. Read these lines and answer the question.
But when a neighbour starts a fuss,
’Tis mother has to fight it.
Which character trait of the father can be observed in the above lines?
5. What is the poet sure about? (hint- stanza 2)
6. We look to him for theories,
But look to ma for action.
What does the poet mean by the above lines?
7. Which character differences have you noticed between the mother and the father?
8. What does the father do to mend the chair?
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