NCERT Solutions for Class 6 English
What if NCERT Solutions for Class 6 Honeysuckle Poem 8
What if NCERT Text Book Questions and Answers
What if Working with the poem
Question 1.
i. Who is the speaker in the poem?
Answer:
The speaker in the poem is a school-going child.
ii. With your partner list out the happenings, the speaker is worried about.
Answer:
Some of the happenings the speaker is worried about are being dumb at school; the swimming being closed; and about getting beaten up or being poisoned. He is also scared that he might start to cry; fall sick and die; or fail an examination. Some of his other worries are more amusing such as growing green hair on his chest and his head getting smaller.
iii. Why do you think she/he has these worries? Can you think of ways to get rid of such worries?
Answer:
He probably has these worries because he is unable to sleep, and cannot help thinking about these things. He could help in getting rid of these worries by counting sheep in his mind, or going back to sleep.
Question 2.
Can words crawl into your ear? This is an image. The poet is trying to make an image of what she/he experiences. Now with your partner try and list out some more images from the poem.
Answer:
Some more images from the poem are as follows: Whatifs prancing and partying all night long; green hair growing on the speaker’s chest; a bolt of lightning striking; his head starting to get smaller; wind tearing up the poet’s kite; teeth not growing straight and tearing his pants.
Question 3.
In groups of four discuss some more ‘what ifs’ that you experience in your day to day life and list them out.
Answers
- What if I grow a trunk on my face like an elephant
- What if all the delicious food vanishes off the face of this earth
- What if there was no electricity
- What if I break my leg
- What if my parents hate me and are not my real parents
- What if aliens invade the earth and make me their slave
- What if I get caught in a never-ending dream
- What if I become the prime minister
And now Write a poem of five or six lines with the ‘what ifs ’ that you have listed.
Answer
What if a trunk appears on my face tomorrow
And I vanish in my sorrow
What if I was caught in a never-ending dream
Where I was having butterscotch cream
What if aliens invaded the earth
Really, off Whatifs there’s no dearth.