Coming 


UNDERSTANDING THE POEM

1. What does the bird in the poem announce? How is this related

to the title, ‘Coming’?

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2. Why is the speaker’s childhood described as ‘a forgotten

boredom’?

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3. What causes the element of surprise when the child comes on

the scene of ‘adult reconciling’?

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4. What two things are compared in the poem?

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5. How do you respond to these lines?

Light, chill and yellow,

Bathes the serene

Foreheads of houses

6. Comment on the use of the phrase ‘fresh-peeled voice’.

TRY THIS OUT


1. The song of a bird is often the first sign of spring. Do you know

the bird that signals the advent of vasant or spring in our

country?

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2. Do you know of other spring poems? How is this poem different

from them?

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