The Flower School

The Flower School
a)Which elements of nature celebrate holidays with the flower children and how?
Ans)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) Identify lines or phrases from the poem which indicate that the flowers have a strict system of schooling.
Ans) 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) Tagore found the concept of conventional schooling a difficult way to learn. How has he conveyed his feelings through the poem?

Ans) 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.

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