21. ONCE UPON A TIME BY GABRIEL OKARA

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ONCE UPON A TIME (POEM) BY GABRIEL OKARA (APSSC ENGLISH) ONLINE TEXT

Watch the video and Answer the following Questions............

Read the following stanza carefully…..... But believe me, son./ I want to be what I used to be/ when I was like you. I want/ to unlearn all these muting things./ Most of all, I want to relearn/ how to laugh, for my laugh in the mirror/ shows only my teeth like a snake’s bare fangs!

Choose the correct answers to the following.............

1. This stanza is a conversation between.......

a father and his son

a person and his neighbour

two childhood friends

None of the above

Clear selection

2. This stanza says that the speaker

wants his son not to grow as an adult

has a deep desire to go back to the innocence of childhood.

asks his son to laugh only before the mirror.

None of the above

Clear selection

3. What does the speaker want to relearn?

How to become a child.

How to see a snake’s bare fangs.

How to behave in a natural way.

None of the above

Clear selection

Read the following Stanza : Once upon a time, son,/ They used to laugh with their hearts/ And laugh with their eyes:/ But now they only laugh with their teeth,/ While their ice-block-cold eyes/ Search behind my shadow.

Now answer the following questions...............

1. Who is the poet addressing?

2. What does the poet want to explain ?

3. What is the expression ‘ice-block’ cold eyes” mean?

4. How do people laugh in the past?

5. How do people laugh now?

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