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C. Answer in detail.
1. Discuss the significance of addressing the mother in the poem.
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2. Analyse what ‘further bank’ represents.
Let’s learn new words
Read the highlighted words in the sentences.
Where those boats are tied to the bamboo poles in a line;
Where the cowherds make their lowing cattle swim across to the
riverside pasture;
In these sentences, both bamboo and poles as well as riverside and pasture are
nouns. Some nouns usually go together with other nouns. Such combinations
are called noun-noun collocations.
Some more examples are –
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football match kitchen cabinet
Colour the boxes that contain the words which will form appropriate noun-noun
collocation with the highlighted word.
1. cheese cake bread sandwich
2. cow man milk shed
3. post office box bag
4. chocolate stick cake shake
5. glass bottle door pen
6. school bus bag child
7. cotton bag shirt dress
8. butter knife paper roll
Let’s do the activity
Based on the reading of the poem, draw your visualisation of the further bank.
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