SUMMARY AND QUESTIONS -ANSWERS OF THE POEM " MY OWN TRUE FAMILY"

 

Summary of The Poem “My Own True Family” By Ted Hughes

Class 10

 

The poem, My "Own True Family " is commentary by the poet on the importance of afforestation. Here the poet talks about the vision of his childhood. In the poem, the poet plays the role of a child.

The poet tells that he searches a stag by entering in the oak wood. There he comes across an old woman with a stick and a rag in her hand. She puts him under the magic spell and tells him the secret which is her inside the bag. When she opens her little bag the poet discovers himself to be tied to a stake and surrounded by the tribes. Here tribes are the symbol oak trees.

The tribes of oak trees dictate that they are their own true family of human kinds. The trees complain to the poet against the mankind that they are chopped down and torn up by the human race. Here the poet as if a representative of human mankind. The trees tell that the mankind wastes them without blink an eye. Now, the oak trees make a condition that the poet should make sure when an oak tree is felled, human being should take an oath to plant two trees. The oak trees threat the poet if he does not do so he will be died. Besides, the poet displays to us unless he does not make sure to do such he will be wrinkled over by the oak trees.

At last, the poet claims that all this is a vision under the boughs of oak trees. So, the poet compels to say that he has totally been changed by this dream. He discovers that when comes back to the human world coming out of the oak wood, he realizes his own walk is like a human child but surprisingly heart is just like a tree. So, the poet feels sorry for the life of oak trees inspite of being a human being. Here the love for nature of the poet is expressed.

 

 

Short Questions And Answers Of The Poem “My Own True Family” :

 

Q1.When did the poet come twice awake?

Ans : The poet came twice awake when the old woman opened her little bag by saying his little secret had in the bag.

Q2. What is the main theme of the poem?

Ans : the main theme of the poem is to to uphold the importance of afforestation.

Q3. What would happen if the poet fail to make the promise?

Ans : If the poet fail to make a promise to plant two trees after cutting one oak tree, the oak bark will wrinkle over him and root him among the trees.

Q4. Why did the old woman begin to cackle?

Ans : the old woman began to cackle because she was successful in capturing the poet in her trap.

Q4. Who introduced themselves as a poet’s own true family?

Ans : The oak trees introduced themselves as the poet’s own true family.

Q5. How was the poet blamed by the oak trees?

Ans : The tribes of the oak trees  blamed the poet by saying that the people mercilessly chopped down and torn up them.

Q6. What promise did the poet have to make?

Ans : The poet had to make a promise to plant two plants after cutting one oak tree.

Q7. What does the phrase “you were born but never grow” mean?

Ans : Like other men who inspite of being a part of nature, neglects his duty to preserve it, the poet also never care to save the oak trees. This is why the oak trees said that through the poet was born but he never grew up psychologically.

Q8. What is that altered the poet?

Ans :The dream which he saw under the trees altered he poet.

Q9. What did the poet realise after coming out of the oak wood?

Ans : The poet realised after coming out of the oak wood that he had become a changed man who had a soft corner for the trees in his heart.

Q10. What message the oak trees give us?

Ans : The oak trees convey us how essential to protect our natural environment for the welfare to mankind.

Q11.What does the” old woman” stand for?

Ans : The “old woman” stands for Mother Nature whose beauty is getting damaged due to the human beings.

 

Grammar From The Text :

Voice Change

1. I was looking for a stag.

2. I met an old woman.

3. She opened up her little bag.

4. We are chopped down.

5. We are torn up.

6. You do not blink an eye.

6. Unless you make a promise.

7. The black bark will wrinkle over you.

8. You will plant two.

Narration Change

1. They said, “ we are the oak trees.”

2. She said, “I have your secret here inside my little bag.”

Joining Into Complex

1.  I met an old woman there.

2. She opened up her little bag.

3. This was my dream beneath the boughs.

4. You make a promise otherwise you are going to die.