What is meant by ‘silence surrounds us’? (b) What kind of life does the poet want his son to lead?

Question

Read the extract given below and answer the questions that follow:

Silence surrounds us. I would have

Him prodigal, returning to

His father’* house, the home he knew

Rather than see him make and move

His world. I would forgive him too

Shaping from sorrow a new love.

(a) What is meant by ‘silence surrounds us’?

(b) What kind of life does the poet want his son to lead?

(c) Find the word from the passage which means ‘extravagant’.

Answer 1

(a) ‘Silence surrounds us’ mean that there is no communication between father and son.

(b) Tut poet wants his son to became prodigal so that he may came back after all his money is spent.

(c) Prodigal