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  1. Sunita Malik
    Sunita Malik

    The blue-frocked woman was teacher of the poet in her childhood days. The poet remembers her because the latter ruined poet's day on the picnic by using harsh words against her. Read summary of this poem.

    The blue-frocked woman was teacher of the poet in her childhood days. The poet remembers her because the latter ruined poet’s day on the picnic by using harsh words against her.

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  1. Athar
    Athar

    The world is different for the poet today as the harsh words of teacher have faded away. She could hardly remember those facing who were laughing at her at that time. Moreover, she has grown up and not the same child. She has found the adult peace. Read summary of this poem.

    The world is different for the poet today as the harsh words of teacher have faded away. She could hardly remember those facing who were laughing at her at that time. Moreover, she has grown up and not the same child. She has found the adult peace.

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  1. Sunita Malik
    Sunita Malik

    The word nostalgic means emotions of past. In the poem, the poet remembers a day in her childhood when she was on a picnic. She was an introvert and hence was standing alone. However her lovely day was ruined when her teacher scolded her for not joining other girls. Her schoolmates also started laugRead more

    The word nostalgic means emotions of past. In the poem, the poet remembers a day in her childhood when she was on a picnic. She was an introvert and hence was standing alone. However her lovely day was ruined when her teacher scolded her for not joining other girls. Her schoolmates also started laughing at her. The poet was in deep pain. She hid her face in the hedge to avoid humiliation.

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  1. Sunita Malik
    Sunita Malik

    The school-mates of the speaker started laughing at her when the teacher harshly asked her to join other students instead of standing alone. Being a sensitive person, she could not bear the humiliation and thus hid her face in sun-warmed hedge. Read summary of this poem.

    The school-mates of the speaker started laughing at her when the teacher harshly asked her to join other students instead of standing alone. Being a sensitive person, she could not bear the humiliation and thus hid her face in sun-warmed hedge.

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  1. Sunita Malik
    Sunita Malik

    The poem Punishment in Kindergarten begins with the phrase "today the world is a little more my own". The lines are deep as they depict that a past event might have occurred in which the poet would have felt all alone and helpless. The poet then narrates her story of childhood when she was scolded bRead more

    The poem Punishment in Kindergarten begins with the phrase “today the world is a little more my own”. The lines are deep as they depict that a past event might have occurred in which the poet would have felt all alone and helpless.

    The poet then narrates her story of childhood when she was scolded by her teacher for remaining alone and separate from other students on a picnic. The poet was a sensitive person and hence she was deeply hurt by the harsh words of the teachers and the funny faces of students around her. However, now she is grown up and is not alone as she was then.

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  1. Sunita Malik
    Sunita Malik

    The speaker, who was a child then, preferred to remain alone. However, soon the came and harshly asked her why she is sitting alone and not joining other girls. She further added that speaker is peculiar weird type of girl. The speaker was a sensitive person and felt as if the words were being throwRead more

    The speaker, who was a child then, preferred to remain alone. However, soon the came and harshly asked her why she is sitting alone and not joining other girls. She further added that speaker is peculiar weird type of girl.

    The speaker was a sensitive person and felt as if the words were being thrown upon her like pots and pans (making huge noise). Meanwhile other students started laughing at her. She buried her face in a grass hedge as she was feeling pain.

    While watching the steel-white sun, alone in the sky, she felt as if she is also alone.

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  1. Kurduglu Bey
    Kurduglu Bey Kayi Member

    This phrase is the last line of the poem Punishment in the Kindergarten written by Kamala Das. Here, the poet remembers an incident when she was scolded by her teacher for remaining alone. The poet says that she hid herself behind a hedge and watched the sun which was standing lonely in the sky. HerRead more

    This phrase is the last line of the poem Punishment in the Kindergarten written by Kamala Das. Here, the poet remembers an incident when she was scolded by her teacher for remaining alone.

    The poet says that she hid herself behind a hedge and watched the sun which was standing lonely in the sky. Here, the poet feels that she is also like that sun because she was too alone and was pale like the sun because of the insult.

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  1. Panda 404
    Panda 404

    Alliteration ( pots and pans ) Simili (*like* pots and pans) Personification imagery (everything is explained brought a vivid image   (im not an english pro, just studied and assumed these might be the devices, i just wanna help kids at 2 am tbh)

    Alliteration ( pots and pans )

    Simili (*like* pots and pans)

    Personification

    imagery (everything is explained brought a vivid image

     

    (im not an english pro, just studied and assumed these might be the devices, i just wanna help kids at 2 am tbh)

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  1. Poonam Sharma
    Poonam Sharma literarian

    She was angry at the poet because she was not joining others so she shouted her for her peculiarity. Read summary of this poem

    She was angry at the poet because she was not joining others so she shouted her for her peculiarity.

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