Father To Son, Popular Questions: CBSE Class 11-commerce ENGLISH, Hornbill

Grace George asked a question

Subject: English, asked on on 5/10/13

What do you mean by 'have I killed

Te seed I spent or sown it where

The land is his and none of mine'

Mibi Anna Biju & 1 other asked a question

Subject: English, asked on on 17/11/14

GIVE THE SUMMARY OF THE 1,2,3,4,5 STANZAS FROM THE CHAPTER 'FATHER TO SON'

Chanchal Patil asked a question

Subject: English, asked on on 11/2/14

Write a brief summary of the poem " Father to Son ".

Now don't give me the answer that the summary of the poem is available on our website because i am not a paid member so i cannot access the summary so i am requesting you to please provide me a brief summary of the poem " Father to Son ".

Shreya Jain asked a question

Subject: English, asked on on 12/1/14

can someone give me the summary for :

father to son

from hornbill (english)?

thanks in advance and if i like ur summary a thumbs up for sure. :)

Shubh Jain asked a question

Subject: English, asked on on 2/2/14

please explain :

"we each put out an empty hand longing for something to forgive."

Vamakshi asked a question

Subject: English, asked on on 9/11/14

" I would have him prodigal" what does the father mean by this?

Deepali Saxena asked a question

Subject: English, asked on on 1/7/10

How is the father’s helplessness brought out in the poem?

Kajal & 1 other asked a question

Subject: English, asked on on 20/12/12

=>Yet have I killed,The seed I spent or sown it where

The land is his and none of mine?, We speak like strangers, there’s no sign

Of understanding in the air.

1.What is the mood of the father? Why?

Do you think the poem would have appeared the same if written by the son? How?

2.Why does the father think that he has killed the seed that he spent?

Why does the father feel that his son is a plant that owns the land it grows?

3.Even strangers become familiar after sometime but here the father and son are strangers even after their association for

years, under the same roof. Why?

=>I would have Him prodigal, returning to

His father’s 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.

1.How does this stanza present the abnormal yet extreme love and care of a father?

2.Why is the father ready to see his son go prodigal?

3.What does the father mean by ‘a new love?’

=> Father and son, we both must live

On the same globe and the same land.

He speaks: I cannot understand

Myself, why anger grows from grief.

We each put out an empty hand,

Longing for something to forgive.

1.The father wishes to live with his son but this rude inflexibility alone is the cause of all the troubles. Explain.

2.He father says that he doesn’t understand his son but now he says that his son puts out his empty hand. What is

the irony in the statement?

3.What do the father and son long to forgive?

Rachit Singhal asked a question

Subject: English, asked on on 10/3/14

"The land is his and none of mine?" What does line mean with reference to the poem ?

Divyang Arora asked a question

Subject: English, asked on on 13/10/13

Why does anger grows from grief?

Nilotpal Goswami asked a question

Subject: English, asked on on 30/6/10

Does the poem talk of an exclusively personal experience or is it fairly universal?

Gunjan asked a question

Subject: English, asked on on 9/3/14

who was amenhotep IV? why is he described as 'wacky'?

Kinjal Pawar asked a question

Subject: English, asked on on 14/10/15

What does the speaker say about father son relationship

Saloni Mantri asked a question

Subject: English, asked on on 25/2/16

the poem talks about the universal problem of generation gap why does such a situation exist how can someone avoid such confrontations express your values in around 120 to 150 words

Soham Kulkarni asked a question

Subject: English, asked on on 3/2/14

the child is built to my design. explain

Anoop Singh Chauhan asked a question

Subject: English, asked on on 29/1/16

Central idea of poem father to son

Goyal Priyanka asked a question

Subject: English, asked on on 27/2/14

what do you think is responsible for the distance between father and son?

Baiju K asked a question

Subject: English, asked on on 31/12/14

why does the father want to build a relationship with the son

Chandni Kamlani asked a question

Subject: English, asked on on 8/3/14

why does the father want the son to come back prodigal in the poem father to son

Dimple Santoshi asked a question

Subject: English, asked on on 18/11/13

why do both of them put out an empty hand?

Madhuri asked a question

Subject: English, asked on on 19/3/13

explain the line,"shaping from sorrow a new love".

Nazmin Malik asked a question

Subject: English, asked on on 28/11/16

What is the irony brought out in the poem in the relation of father and son.

Poorva asked a question

Subject: English, asked on on 11/12/13

explain "silence surrounds us"??

Sreelakshmi asked a question

Subject: English, asked on on 29/9/15

why is the father unhappy and what is his problem

Somanadan asked a question

Subject: English, asked on on 24/11/14

what is the meaning of

yet have i killed

the seed i spent or sown it where

the land is his and none of mine

Sarthaja Sadik asked a question

Subject: English, asked on on 21/10/13

explain-silence surrounds us

Neha asked a question

Subject: English, asked on on 27/2/13

' THE SEED I SPENT OR SOWN IT WHERE....MINE'WHAT DOES IT MEAN???

Ashutosh asked a question

Subject: English, asked on on 2/2/14

why is the father unhappy with the son .

Neelanjana Chettry asked a question

Subject: English, asked on on 14/10/14

Summary of the poem "father to son"-Elizabeth jennings

Soham Kulkarni asked a question

Subject: English, asked on on 3/2/14

explain the line "we must live on the same globe"

Amit Chhetri asked a question

Subject: English, asked on on 12/1/14

wats are the poetic device used in the poem father to son

Anjali Solunke asked a question

Subject: English, asked on on 21/12/14

Why do the Father and son behave and speak like stranger?
PLEASE EXPERTS HELP...

Ht Shakeel asked a question

Subject: English, asked on on 2/7/10

Identify the phrases and lines that indicate distance between father and son.

Sweety Tweety asked a question

Subject: English, asked on on 1/9/13

Explain the special love that the father envisions in Elizabeth Jennings poem

Gourav Ahuja asked a question

Subject: English, asked on on 18/6/10

Does the poem have a consistent rhyme scheme?

Gayathri A asked a question

Subject: English, asked on on 20/3/15

please explain the lines "we each put out an empty hand, longing for something to forgive"

Simran Bagga asked a question

Subject: English, asked on on 27/2/13

bring out the universality in the poem father to son

Roshini Chandra Saker asked a question

Subject: English, asked on on 10/12/12

explain the line "shaping from sorrow a new love" from the poem father to son.

Bhavesh P Jadhav asked a question

Subject: English, asked on on 27/12/13

does the father want his son to live an independent life ? give ur comment

Neha Jain asked a question

Subject: English, asked on on 14/2/17

what does the father want his son to do?

Shruti Sharma asked a question

Subject: English, asked on on 18/12/12

I do not understand this child,Though we have lived together now

In the same house for years. I know, Nothing of him, so try to build

Up a relationship from how, He was when small.

1.

Why doesn’t the father know anything of his son? Or – Give reasons for the failure of the father son relationship.

2.

What sort of a relation is the father trying to build with his son? What will be drawback of this relation?

3.

Where did the father fail? How could have he escaped the failure?

Sahil Bishnoi & 2 others asked a question

Subject: English, asked on on 10/3/15

Write a brief summary of the poem " Father to Son " .

Now don't give me the answer that the summary of the poem is available on our site because i am not a paid member and can't get access to the summary part so i am requesting you to kindly provide me

a brief summary of the poem " Father to Son " .