Aunt Jennifer's Tigers

 Perfect Practice Paper 2


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


When Aunt is dead, her terrified hands will lie

Still ringed with ordeals she was mastered by.

The tigers in the panel that she made

Will go on prancing, proud and unafraid.

 

Name the poem and the poet.

What was the aunt’s ordeal?

Why did she ‘make’ tigers?

What does the word ‘ ringed’ signify?



1 Why do you think Aunt Jennifer created animals that are so different from her own character?

2 What do the symbols, ‘tigers’, ‘fingers’, and ‘ring’ stand for in the poem, ‘Aunt Jennifer’s  Tigers’? 

3 What is the meaning of the phrase, ‘massive weight of uncle’s wedding band’?

4 How are Aunt Jennifer’s tigers different from her?


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