As a son,My daughter -Sampurna Chattarji|B.Sc English Conflations 3 Bangalore University
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As a Son, My Daughter
Sampurna Chattarji
Summary of the poem 'As a son,My daughter'
In the poem 'As a son, My daughter ' written by Sampurna Chattarji , the poet wants her daughter to be all that she was not.The poem talks about the different circumstances in which a boy and a girl is raised in our society. As her daughter grows up , the poet says that her daughter will be the 'healer 'who is loved for her smile and her sorceress skill.
The poet/mother wishes that when she grows up she will be all that the poet was not.She will be wise and patient, with shiny long hair, good teeth and radiant skin with razor sharp intellect who is as brilliant as beautiful she is.
The poet then says she will be a wife and a mother and her grandchildren would be brilliant and beautiful, exactly as she see them, a perfect miniature of all that she was not.
Towards the end of the poem, the poet is frightened about her daughter. because her daughter had become everything the poet/mother was not.Her daughter has become too fierce,too strong, too free and her hair is too short, her absences too long and fears nothing. All this makes the poet/mother frightened.
In the poem the poet wanted to raise her daughter against the existing norms of the society where girls are raised differently from the boys. The poet dares to change it by raising her daughter as her son and wanted her to be fierce, independent and courageous. But the irony is that the society we live, still have the old mindset and are not ready to accept her daughter raised in this way, and that's why now she fears for her.
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Answer the following questions in one or two sentences
1.The poem is addressed to the
a.daughter
son
mother
father
2.What is the 'healer' loved for?
The healer is loved for her smile and her sorceress skill.
3.The daughter will be a composer of concrete dreams
4.Which mysteries does the daughter unravel?
The poet's daughter will be the one to split the gene and shed light on every last particle of doubt.
5.Why does the daughter reject all the numbers except the binaries?
The daughter reject all the numbers except the binary as she know the numbers so well and needs only two for they will be enough to keep her engaged endlessly in running the world efficient and remorseless.
6.The mother /poet wants to see in her daughter the attributes which she lacks(True/False)
True.The mother/poet wants to see in her daughter the attributes which she lacks.
How will the grandchildren of the poet be?
The grandchildren of the poet would be brilliant and beautiful, exactly as she see them, a perfect miniature of all that she was not.
How has the poet/mother has brought her up?
The poet/mother had brought up her daughter , as a son, who was fierce, strong and free.
Why is the poet /mother frightened?
The poet/mother is frightened because her daughter had become everything the poet/mother was not.Her daughter has become too fierce,too strong, too free and her hair is too short, her absences too long and fears nothing, all this makes the poet/mother frightened.
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