Read the lines from the poem 'The Himalayas' and answer the questions
that follow:
At that time
I am seventeen, and have just started
to wear a sari every day.
Swami Anand is eighty nine
and almost blind.
His thick glasses don't seem to work,
they only magnify his cloudy eyes.
Mornings he summons me
from the kitchen
and I read to him until lunch time.
One day he tells me
'you can read your poems now'.
I read a few, he is silent.
Thinking he's asleep, I stop.
But he says, 'continue.'
I begin a long one
in which the Himalayas rise
as a metaphor.
1. What change can you notice in the speaker on the days referred to in these
lines?
2. What purpose do the glasses serve for Swami Anand?
3. Why did the speaker stop reading her poem?
4. The narrator reads out a poem before Swami Anand. What idea do you get
about her poem?
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