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Read the following lines. Mum, I don’t want to go to school today, ‘Cause I fear our world is in decay. I feel my teachers are part of the plot, I’m the only one who sees through the rot. Scientists are cloning pigs and sheep, Saying, it’s change – a quantum leap. Biologists are making stem cells grow, Saying, it’s change – the way to go. Now answer the following questions: 1) Who is the speaker of these lines? 2) I’m the only one who sees through the rot. What is the poet trying to convey by the underlined words above? 3) Who are the parts of the plot to ruin the world? 4) What change are the biologists bringing in? 5) What is considered a quantum leap? Additional Questions (i): 1) Who is the speaker of these lines? 2) Can you guess the age of the speaker? 3) What do you mean by ‘plot’? 4) What is the speaker’s complaint?5) Pick out the rhyming words from above.Additional Questions (ii): 1) Why does not the speaker want to go to school?2) “I fear our world is in decay” – How can you support the speaker’s statement? 3) Who are part of the secret plans to decay the world? 4) What are the teachers a part of? 5) What are the scientists doing? 6) How do the scientists feel about cloning? 7) What do you mean by cloning? 8) How would you feel if a scientist cloned you? 9) “I am the only one who sees through the rot” – What does ‘the rot’ here mean? 10) Why does the speaker only understand the plot? |
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Answer» 1) The speaker of these lines is a school going child. 2) The speaker means that humans are destroying nature and the Earth. So, many changes are happening in the world now. 3) The speaker fears that teachers are part of the plot. 4) Biologists are making stem, cells grow. 5) Cloning of pigs and sheep is considered a quantum leap. Additional Answer (i) 1) School going girl. 2) The speaker is a small child. I can say that because she is a school-going girl. Actually the poet “Emma Gorrie’ was an bight year old girl when she wrote the poem, she wrote this poem for a competition. 3) The scientists made a plot to destroy the world. 4) The speaker’s complaint is that the teachers are teaching her about the discoveries of scientists which she feels are causing the decay of the world. 5) today – decay; plot – rot; sheep – leap; grow – go. Additional Answer (ii) 1) Because in her school she was taught many scientifical developments and discoveries which she fears leads to the decay of the world. 2) The scientists were able to find out so many things about the world that tells about the decay of the world. But scientists are not responsible for the decay of the world as the poet thinks of but the human beings are exploiting the nature and environment and in such a way they are causing the decay of the world. 3) According to the poet the teachers are part of the plot. 4) The teachers are the part of the plot made by scientists. 5) The scientists are cloning pigs and sheep. 6) The scientists feel that cloning as a quantum leap. 7) Producing an exact copy of an animal using DNA fragments, cells of the animals. 8) If a scientist cloned me I would be very much excited to see another ‘me’, with the same appearances, mannerisms and resemblances of mine. 9) The rot here means that those worst things which cause the decay of the world. 10) The poet sees the negative side of the scientists findings and they cause a lot of concern to her. |
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