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GATE 2022 XH2 (English) – Question 65

Literary Forms, Genres, and Modes of Expression · Aesthetic and Rhetorical Strategies: Narrative and poetic techniques, and figures of speech · 2 marks · Multiple select

Read the following lines and mark your correct observation(s):

Take my shirt off
and go in there to do the puja
No thanks.
Not me.
But you go right ahead
if that’s what you want to do.
Give me the match box
before you go,
will you?
I will be out in the courtyard
where no one will mind it
if I smoke.

  1. The poem is written in the form of an ode.
  2. The poem is skeptic in nature.
  3. The poet uses surreal and astonishing images.
  4. The poem expresses a rebellious attitude.

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Correct answer: (B) The poem is skeptic in nature.; (D) The poem expresses a rebellious attitude.

Explanation

The speaker refuses the ritual and goes to smoke in the courtyard, which shows scepticism about religion and a rebellious attitude. The language is plain and conversational, so it is not an ode and uses no surreal images.