THE FLOWER SCHOOL

Answers to textual questions:

1. a) blossom

b) to reach out to their mother in the sky

c) in closed rooms

2. a) The branches, the leaves and the thunder clouds celebrate the holidays

by clashing together in the forest, by rustling and by clapping their giant

hands respectively.

b) They do their lessons with doors shut, and if they want to

come out to play before it is time,

their master makes them stand in a corner.

c) Here the poet has presented an analogy, between offshoots of flower

plants preparing underground before they come out and the way

children get typically schooled - behind the doors shut - apparently

preparing their lessons but longing from within for freedom to reach their

mother or to play in a field - disciplined by a master who asks them to

stand in a corner if they come out to play early.