What does the poet like to do when it rains?

What do the following phrases mean to you? Discuss in class. (i) humid shadows (ii) starry spheres (iii) what a bliss (iv) a thousand dreamy fancies into busy being start (v) a thousand recollections weave their air-threads into woof

Has your life been different from or similar to that of Kezia when you were a child? Has your perception about your parents changed now? Do you find any change in your parents’ behaviour vis-à-vis yours? Who has become more understanding? What steps would you like to take to build a relationship based on understanding? Write three or four paragraphs (150–200 words) discussing these issues from your own experience.

Was Kezia’s father right to punish her? What kind of a person was he? You might find some of these words useful in describing him:

This story is not an Indian story. But do you think there are fathers, mothers and grandmothers like the ones portrayed in the story in our own country?

The traffic police ............... all the passers-by to keep off the road.