1st PUC English Question and Answer Karnataka State Board Syllabus
1st PUC English Chapter 9
The Farmer’s Wife
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The Farmer’s Wife Comprehension I:
Question 1.
Who do ‘you’ and ‘I’ in the poem refer to?
Answer:
“You’ refers to the farmer and ‘I’ refers to the wife of the farmer.
Question 2.
Why has the speaker’s husband committed suicide?
Answer:
The farmer, the husband of the speaker’s crop was destroyed because of that he was in a severe economic blow. He could not be able to pay back the money lenders. Thus the farmer committed suicide.
Question 3.
What series of contrasts does the speaker draw between herself and her husband?
Answer:
The speaker was not used to sell things. Not even go out to other houses and ask for something for their house. But in contrast to that the farmer was unable to bend his bend and stretch out his hand.
Question 4.
What expressions in the poem bring out the contrast between the speaker and her husband’s plight? What difference does this indicate?
Answer:
“But in battle, I must live I must embrace life not death embrace life and the struggle for life” theses expressions show that the speaker has come out of their plight. She overcame the problem and negotiated the situation with a brave heart. She will win the battle of life which her husband could not do.
Question 5.
The farmer’s wife in the poem is
(a) Complaining about her husband’s death.
(b) Lamenting the death of her husband.
(c) Angry that her husband has left her.
(d) Bitter about her husband’s act.
(e) Worried about her future.
(f) All of the above.
Answer:
(J) All of the above.
Question 6.
What memories of her husband trouble her now?
Answer:
Her husband used to be a drunker. He used to abuse and revile her and kicked her. All the time she thought that he is just a man.
Question 7.
What does the phrase’ harvest of my womb’ suggest?
Answer:
The phrase suggests the four children she gave birth to from her womb.
Question 8.
Why is their plight compared to a ‘worm-eaten cotton pod?
Answer:
The situation of the farmer’s family is suffering with a severe economic crisis. The farmer’s wife and their four children are there. But there is no hope for their life to rebuild. It is like the worm-eaten cotton pod.
Question 9.
To what condition had her husband’s act of committing suicide pushed her?
Answer:
There was no crop. The dignity was come to the ground.
Question 10.
The poem ends with
(a) An assertion.
(b) A deep sense of failure and despondency
(c) A will to survive against all odds.
Answer:
(c) A will to survive against all odds.
The Farmer’s Wife Comprehension II:
Question 1.
Many times the tone suggests the attitude of the speaker. What kind of attitude is suggested by the words ‘virtuous’, ‘poor sinner’, ‘he is but a man’, ‘what of this?’, ‘why is this?’.
Answer:
‘The positive attitude of the speaker here is depicted. She has a firm heart to say these expressions. She has the lesson to teach her children not to be as fathers but to take the challenges in our lives and win the battle.
Question 2.
What kind of questions does the poem raise about the plight of farmers’ widows? Do you think that these questions are only addressed to the speaker’s dead husband?
Answer:
What of this? , Why is this? My back would bear the burden of four children? But our family? These questions the speaker asks not only against her husband but the people who are in that situation.
The Farmer’s Wife Summary
The poem ‘The Farmer’s wife ‘by Volga depicts the struggle of the wife of a farmer after his death. The speaker sadly recorded the reality of the poor former’s story. Here is the wife of the dead farmer. She is a poor sinner remaining before the creditors. She has to face them because her husband borrowed money from them.
The farmer could not succeed in selling the crops or lending money from others to pay back the borrowed money. She is asking question to the farmer now knowing that she was born with a head bent. She is not familiar with selling things. But the farmer consumed poison and died of it. Life without the farmer is like a bitter experience.
The farmer is a drunker. He used to abuse and revile her and kicked her. She thinks at the time that he is just a man. But there are no crops but the debt remains. The dignity had come down to the dust. Her heart turned as water.
He did not imagine that she would bear the burden of four children. The former saw only the loss of the crop but he did not think of their children. She further urges that to die is a moment needed. But truly what we need is a firm heart.
She now teaches her children to live not merely for a handful of rice but to live in the battle of life. This poem greatly explains the brave-hearted woman who lost her husband and ran a challenging life.
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