Chapter - 09
THE FARMER’S WIFE
Volga
Comprehension
I.
1) Who do “you” and “I” in the poem refer to?
Ans: “You” refers to the farmer and “I” refers to
the farmer’s wife in the poem.
2) Why has the speaker’s husband committed
suicide?
Ans: The speaker’s husband committed suicide
because the farmer was unable to pay his loan and he didn’t have crop to earn
money. He was broken down to tolerate the humiliation and did not want to beg
for help from anyone.
3) What series of contrasts
does the speaker draw between herself and her husband?
Ans: Farmer’s wife says that
she is sinner but her husband was high-minded person, she is alive but her
husband is dead. The
speaker’s husband committed suicide because the farmer was unable to pay his
loan and he didn’t have crop to earn money. He was broken down to tolerate the
humiliation and did not want to beg for help from anyone.
4) What expressions in the poem bring out the
contrast between the speaker and her husband’s plight? What difference does this
indicate?
Ans: The farmer was not used to being
compliant to other people. He was unable to tolerate twisting his head or
extending his hand before the loan bosses. Be that as it may, being a lady, the
rancher's better half was utilized to submission and cruel treatment and could pull
on in any event, when offended and denied. Also, being a lady, her nurturing
intuition made it unthinkable for her to abandon her kids helpless before
destiny. Subsequently we see that the distinction between the man and the lady
lies in the manner people are commonly treated in the public arena and the
manner by which men treat ladies at home. Despite the fact that the possibility
of raising four youngsters even with distinct destitution is overwhelming, she
faces the test and doesn't take response to the simpler departure course of
self destruction. However, the redeeming
quality is the way that the unfairness dispensed to ladies in the public eye
and at home makes them solid and gives them the fearlessness to grasp life and
battle forever.
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.
Ans: f) all of the above.
6) What memories of her husband trouble her
now?
Ans: The farmer had manhandled his wife both
genuinely and verbally when he was alive. Farmer’s wife was abused by her
significant other in his plastered state.
In any case, this was acknowledged by the lady since society had caused
her to accept that a man reserved the privilege to administer over his better
half and even maltreatment her when disappointed as he was the ace who went out
into the world while she was to manage family issues. Normally, the lady has
all negative recollections of the one who did no equity to her when alive and
did a more prominent shamefulness to her by grasping demise. However, this
thought of the man gets beaten when the rancher can't withstand the weight and
ends it all. The artist needs to bring up that while we all feel for the one
who was headed to end it all, the situation of the one who needs to fight for
her is more regrettable than that of the one who is dead and along these lines
liberated from all issues. Presently, the lady needs to bear the obligation of
both work and home.
7) What does the phrase “harvest of my womb”
suggest? Why is their plight compared to “worm-eaten cotton pod”?
Ans: The four children of the farmer’s wife
is the phrase “harvest of my womb”. As the field delivers the yield and has the
collect, the lady has produced kids. On the off chance that she, similar to her
significant other, takes the simpler way out by ending it all, the kids will be
deserted like the “worm-eaten cotton pod”. Farmer’s wife clarifies that if the
youngsters don't have the parent figure to feed them they would resemble the
unripe cotton cases. They can't arrive at their develop phase of development.
The writer purposely utilizes the comparison which looks at the stranded youngsters
to worm-eaten cotton case since it was in cotton-developing regions that the
most noteworthy number of ranchers ended it all.
8) To what condition had her husband’s act of
committing suicide pushed her?
Ans: The farmer’s committing suicide had
pushed his wife to a state which is more awful than death. The farmer’s wife utilizes
the word death blow to show that the final knockout of poison which shut down
the farmer’s life is simpler than the final knockout that the spouse needs to
involvement with terms of cash, poise and intricacy of raising the children
with no help.
9) The poem ends with
a) an assertion.
b) a deep sense of failure and despondency.
c) a will to survive against all odds.
Ans: c) a will to survive against all odds.
II.
1) Many times the tone suggests the attitude
of the speaker. What kind of attitudes are suggested by the words: “virtuous”, “poor
sinner”, “he is but a man”, “what of this?”, “Why is this?”
Ans: The mentality of the speaker is
critical. She can't acknowledge her significant other's demonstration of
weakness. She utilizes the word virtuous amusingly. She derides at the chance
of all commending the rancher as a man of respect who couldn't bear taking
credits from others. It is standard for us all to adulate the dead thus the
rancher would get only compassion. Nonetheless, the speaker considers his
demonstration fainthearted. She says unexpectedly that she will be taken as a
poor sinner since she is as yet alive when her prudent spouse has become a
saint. She is reasonably furious that the 'man' of the house has ended up being
a quitter. The one who manhandled her due for his potential benefit of being
however a man in a man centric culture has abandoned her to accomplish crafted
by a man, that is, procuring a living for the four youngsters. The lady
appropriately calls attention to that the rancher ought to have had the quality
of character to pose the inquiries, what of this? And why is this? and battled
against the chances in life to emerge from trouble.
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?
Ans: The poem is a shocker on the grounds
that for the most part when we hear or read about the demonstrations of self
destruction, we contemplate the heartbreaking situation of the farmer who was
driven into the demonstration of ending it all. While the facts confirm that
the condition of the rancher merits our compassion, it is similarly obvious
that very few of us see the issue from the point of the family that is
deserted. The reality remains that the family would keep on being in the
condition of bankruptcy and such a family would be in the most exceedingly
terrible situation on the grounds that the alleged 'man of the house' is dead
and the family actually has no wellspring of pay. Consequently, the point of
the sonnet isn't to single out one instance of self destruction, however to
illuminate a social issue which needs government intercession to be settled. .
The widow of the farmer or whatever other individual who is abandoned to bear
the onus is in a truly pitiable condition to be sure! From one perspective, the sonnet is a request
to every one of the individuals who surrender their battle not to do as such
and to overcome the tempest bravely, and then again, it is an accolade for the
ones who show more noteworthy abstinence than men in confronting trouble and in
handling issues. The sonnet, at one more level, is an appeal to the legislature
and maybe even social associations to help those individuals who need to live
with pride yet are compelled to eat earth. The sonnet additionally taunts at
the possibility of a man as the provider and his feeling of prevalence over the
lady he takes for a spouse.
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