Practicing Success

Target Exam

CUET

Subject

English

Chapter

Comprehension - (Poetry / Literary)

Question:
Read the poem and answer the following questions
Sundays too my father got up early
and put his clothes on in the blue-black cold,
then with cracked hands that ached
from labor in the weekday weather made
banked fires blaze. No one ever thanked him.
 
I’d wake and hear the cold splintering, breaking.
When the rooms were warm, he’d call,
and slowly I would rise and dress,
fearing the chronic angers of that house,
 
Speaking indifferently to him,
who had driven out the cold
and polished my good shoes as well.
What did I know, what did I know
of love’s austere and lonely offices?

 

 

What is the main theme of the poem? 

Options:

How parenting is a selfless and thankless job 

How children behave with their parents 

How parents and children have a constrained relationship 

Cannot say 

Correct Answer:

How parenting is a selfless and thankless job 

Explanation:

The main theme of the poem is how parenting is a selfless and thankless job.