NCERT Solutions for Class 12 English Flamingo Poetry Aunt Jennifer’s Tigers

Aunt Jennifer’s Tigers Poetry – NCERT Book for 12th Class English Flamingo Poetry  Aunt Jennifer’s Tigers is available for reading or download on this page. Candidates who are in class 12th or preparing for any test which is based on 12th Class English can refer to NCERT English Flamingo Book for their preparation.

Here you can read below NCERT Solutions of Poetry 6 of 12th Class  English NCERT Book.

Question Answers

Q.1 What does the title of the poem suggest to you? Are you reminded of other poems on tigers?
Ans. The title “Aunt Jennifer’s Tigers”. This suggests that the poem is about Aunt Jennifer’s knitted tigers that, with their chivalric, ferocious, bright, and carefree attitude, become an alternate world of her creation. The tigers are the only means of free expression in her life, which is otherwise burdened by fear and struggles of the married life. There are many other poems written about tigers, some of which are given below. The Tiger” by William Blake.

“Tiger” by Alec Derwent Hope

“Tiger Drinking at forest pool” by Ruth Padel

(A model answer has been provided for students reference. It is recommended that students prepare the answer on their own.

Q.2 How do ‘denizens’ and ‘chivalric’ add to our understanding of the tiger’s attitudes?
Ans. Denizens’ means inhabitant. The poet uses this word to the tigers. Tigers are the animals that are found in the world of green (forests or zoo). They are the ‘Denizens’ of the forests. They live in forests prancing and free from fear. “Chivalric’ means brave and courteous. It tells us that tigers are the “knights’ in the world of green.

Q.3 Why do you think Aunt Jennifer’s hands are ‘fluttering through her wool in the second stanza? Why is she finding the needle so hard to pull?
Ans. Aunt Jennifer is doing embroidery with her ivory needle. Her fingers are quivering through her wool. She is busy making, the tigers on the screen. She is finding the ivory needle so hard to pull because she has grown weak.

Q.4 What is suggested by the image ‘massive weight of Uncle’s wedding band’?
Ans. Aunt Jennifer is doing embroidery with her ivory needle. She is even not in a position to relax for a while. She is taking very refined, intrinsic designs with the wool. But there are the other duties towards her family. These duties of her married life check her in the middle. She has to stop doing embroidery. That is why it is taken as a massive weight of uncle’s wedding band’ sits heavily upon Aunt’s hand.

Q.5 Of what or of who is aunt Jennifer, terrified within the third stanza?
Ans. Aunt Jennifer is terrified of the ordeals she has been facing for a long time. She is afraid that she will have to face the same data, even after her death.

Q.6 What are the ordeals’ aunt Jennifer is surrounded by, why is it significant that the poet uses the word ringed’? What are the different meanings of the word “ringed’ in the poem?
Ans. Aunt Jennifer is surrounded by the ordeals of heavy responsibilities. These responsibilities are towards her married life. These are towards uncle Jennifer. The poetess has also used the word ‘ringed’ to point out the marriage responsibilities of her married life. She is doing embroidery and busy making tigers on a screen. But certain other responsibilities create obstacles in her work. On the other way, a Sound of calling her to do her domestic duties is denoted by ringed.”

Q.7 Why do you think Aunt Jennifer created animals that are so different from her Character? What might the poet be suggesting, through this difference?
Ans. The tigers made by aunt Jennifer are the animals of different characters. Aunt Jennifer has to perform various household duties. So the tigers and the scenery made by her take her away with them. When she is these animals she feels herself free from all household’ formalities. There she is ‘proud and ‘Unafraid.

Q.8 Interpret the symbols found in this poem.
Ans. The symbols used in the poem are tigers’ ‘topaz denizens”. Tigers are the animals that live freely in a forest. Women too want freedom. They also want to become topaz.”Topaz denizens’ mean women are by birth the inhabitants of a cheerful life. “Panel means they do not fear the men. They are riding on a saddle of tigers. In brief, all these Symbols present freedom, enjoyment, and individuality. Women want to have all these. Things to seek some relief from their daily routine.

Q.9 Do you sympathize with Aunt Jennifer? What is the attitude of the speaker towards Aunt Jennifer?
Ans. Aunt Jennifer deserves everyone’s praise. Like most of the other ladies, she is heavily loaded with her responsibilities of married life. She represents her thoughts of free and fearless life through her embroidery. The speaker is liberating her only through the images. But the speaker says that even after her dead aunt’s hands will remain under the grip and influence of her daily household work. It means the speaker is not letting her remain free even in death.

Q.10 What will happen to Aunt Jennifer’s Girl when she is dead?
Ans. After Aunt Jennifer’s death, her tigers will continue prancing freely in the forest.