Important Short Questions with Answers from the poem My Own True Family | Ted Hughes| Class - X
Q.1:- Who wrote the poem ‘My Own True Family’?
Ans:- Ted Hughes wrote the poem ‘My Own True Family’.
Q.2:- Where did the poet creep in?
Ans:- The poet crept in an oakwood.
Q.3:- Whom did the poet meet?
Ans:- The poet met an old woman.
Q.4:- Describe the appearance of the old lady in the oakwood.
Ans:- The old woman held a knobbly stick and her dress was worn out like rags.
Q.5:- What did the lady say to the poet?
Ans:- The old lady told the poet that she had his secret inside her little bag.
Q.6:- When did the poet come twice awake?
Ans:- The poet came twice awake when the old lady opened her little bag.
Q.7:- What would happen to the poet if he had failed to make the promise?
Ans:- If the poet failed to make the promise, the black oak bark would wrinkle over him and root him among the oaks where he was born but never grew.
Q 8:- What was it that altered the poet?
Ans:- The dream that the poet dreamt beneath the boughs of the oak-trees altered the poet.
Q.9:- What is the massage of the poem?
Ans:- The poem conveys the message of the need to protect our natural environment for the welfare of mankind.
Q.10:- What is the objectives of the poet behind this poem?
Ans:- The objectives of the poem was to encourage afforestation and stop the merciless cutting down of trees.
Q .11:- Where did the poet return?
Ans:- The poet returned to the human company.
Q. 12:- What promise did the poet have to make?
Ans:- The poet had to make a promise that he would plant two oak trees if he saw one oak tree being felled.
Q.13:- What did the poet see when the old lady opened up her little bag?
Ans:- When the old lady opened her little bag, the poet saw that he was surrounded by a staring tribe of oak trees and tied to a stake.
Q.14:- What does the phrase “you were born but never grew” mean?
Ans:- Like other men who in spite of being a part of nature, neglects, his duty to preserve it, the poet also never cared to save oak trees. That is why the oak tress said that though the poet has born he never ‘grew up’ or to say never developed psychologically.
Q.15:- How did the dream alter the poet?
Ans:- After having the dream the poet felt a strong bond between him and the oak trees and could also feel the pain the trees go through when they are felled. This is how the dream altered the poet.
Q. 16:- How did the oakwoods describe their sad condition to the poet ?
Ans:- The oak trees described their sad to the poet that they were chopped down and torn up.
Q.17:- What did the oak trees say to the poet?
Ans:- The oak trees said that they were his own true family.
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