Question 1:
Who is the speaker in the poem?
Answer:
The poet himself is the speaker in the poem.
Question 2:
With your partner list out the happenings the speaker is worried about.
Answer:
Question 3:
Why do you think she/he has these worries? Can you think of ways to get rid of such worries?
Answer:
He has these worries because of his negative thinking. One must have positive attitude towards life.
Question 4:
Read the following line.
Some whatifs crawled inside my ear.
Can words crawl into
your ear? This is an image. The poet is trying to make an image of what she/he
experiences.
Now with your partner try and list out some more images from the poem.
Answer:
Question 5:
In groups of four discuss some more ‘whatifs’ that you experience in your day-to-day life and
list them out.
Whatif:
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Answer:
Whatif the roof falls?
Whatif I get threatening calls?
Whatif a snake bites me?
Whatif a car hits me?
Whatif I drop a catch?
Whatif we lose a match?