12th English VVI Subjective Question 2025: कक्षा 12वीं अंग्रेजी लघु उत्तरीय प्रश्न
12th English VVI Subjective Question 2025:
(1) ‘My Grand Mother’s House’
‘My grand mother’s house’ is the work of Kamla Das. Here the poetess has presented her feelings and respects to her grandmother who nursed and brought up her carefully. She remembers her grand mother’s house which is far away from her present abode. She got her love there. The woman who nursed her is no more. There is silence and the snake is crawling. She remembers her childhood and says that she was too young to read the books. She likes to visit the house to observe closely through the window or listen to the frozen air. She despaired and picked up an armful of darkness to bring it here to lie, behind her bedroom. There might be imaginary dog standing as she thought. She loved that house. She has lost her love and affection but still remembers that house she expects to receive the same love at strangers door.
(2) To Autumn
Here John Keats has made sweet description and compliment of Autumn. He says that this season is the symbol of dew and mist. The trees laden with fruits and maturing sunbeams are whispering to the ear of the poet to observe the beauty of this nature. Vines around the hut, are full of juicy fruits. Apple trees are looking like a thatched hut and fruits on it are growing.
The fleshy part and juice are growing abundantly around the kernel. Bees are buzzing around the fruits. These all are allusions of coming Autumn. This goes till spring does not come. Sometimes travellers are getting tired to search out their houses. They rest for a while on the greeny floor. When travellers become tired, they go to greeny floor to have rest a while where buds are going to blossom with a sweet fragrance of the winnowing wind. Fragrance is scattered in the open air and tipsy is prevailed in the atmosphere. Those who work in the farmhouse also enjoy with the sweetest blossom of the wind. The poet asks spring season where its song is, where they are, no more think about that. Robin and Hedge cricket are bewailing to the loss of a romantic season of spring. They all are creating contrivance and colloquial disastrous mournful life. The poet wants to tell about autumn that it is not less than the spring season. The poet says that the excitement, thrilling, passion, joy and everything are very superior.
(3) Song of Myself
Song of Myself is composed by Walt Whitman. Here the poet has presented beautifully American individualism. He has presented his concept of life and says that he enjoys himself and sings alone. He thinks that what-
ever feeling he has the rest might have the same. The poet is in the opinion that there is a similarity between man and man. Whatever things he possessed the rest might have possessed the same. The poet means to say here that every individual has the same feeling and conception about life. Every atom of blood is the same in all human beings.
The poet wanders aimlessly and thinks a lot. Taking rest he moves further and observes the mast of summer grass. It seemed as if it might be a bunch of thorns. The poet says that happiness and sorrow are the two sides of life. Life is not the bed of roses. The poet realises pain. He goes in deep meditation and says that his tongue, blood and other particles of the body have been formed from this soil and air. It is true that every man comes on the earth one by one. Child is the father of the man. The poet has attained thirty-seven years of age and he is healthy enough. He hopes to maintain his good health up to death.
The poet is religious minded. He has a unique thought about education. He does not bother about creeds and schools. He thinks to refirm humanity. The poet keeps feeling of good or bad. He likes to present his views at every hazard and says that restriction should not be imposed on nature, otherwise it will be dangerous. Nature is lovely and remains in its forms till without check
(4) Macavity: The Mystery Cat
In this poem, T.S. Eliot describes the mischiefs of a cat in a humorous and mock-heroic vein. Macavity is the name of a cat who is a mystery. He is called the Hidden paw. He is a master criminal. He does not obey the law. He carries on his thievish activities so secretly that Scotland Yard- the head office of detective police and its flying squad fail to find any clue of the theft.
Whenever they get a report of theft and reach the place of occurrence, they find that the culprit has already disappeared from that place. This cat not only disobeys human law, but he denies the law of Nature also. Due to the operation of Law of Gravity nothing heavier than air can remain suspended in the air.
Some fakirs possessing spiritual power can remain suspended in the air. But Macavity surpasses them also by remaining suspended in the air for a longer period. How he disappears from the place of occurrence is a wonder to everybody. People search him in the lowest part of the building and also in the topmost part but he is so slippery that he is not to be found anywhere.
Macavity is tall and thin. His eyes are sunken. He has got a pensive look and a broadhead. He has dust-colour skin and rough whisker. He moves his head from one direction to another like a snake, and is always alert. He is a great rogue. His activities of loot and plunder are of huge magnitude. He can be found anywhere and everywhere. Yet, when a crime is detected, he cannot be found there. From his face, no one can say that he is an offender. Yet, he cheats people at cards, loots meat from the meat-safe, drinks milk, steals jewels kills small lap dogs, breaks the glass of green-house and wooden lattice meant for rearing plants and after committing all these mischiefs he always slips away quite unnoticed. Sometimes, important papers like a treaty between two governments kept in the foreign office and the plans and drawings of Navy are found missing, and scraps of paper scattered in the hall and on the staircase show that the papers have been removed by someone. Yet, MacArthur
(5) An Epitaph
An Epitaph is the work of Walter de la Mare. Here the poet has presented beautifully the old theme before the readers and tries his best to create fresh interest in them.
The poet expresses his sad feeling for a lady who is lying in a grave. A few words have been inscribed in the memory of the lady. This is the place where she moved, spent her last hour and buried. The poet says that she was the most beautiful lady in the west country. Suddenly she passed away leaving him alone. She had charm and glamour which is rare in the eye of the poet. She might be the love of the poet. The poet is sad thinking that none will remember her after his death. This is a song where a note of melancholy is included.
