Hi Everyone!! This article will share Playthings Questions & Answers.
This poem is written by Rabindranath Tagore. In my previous posts, I have shared the questions and answers of All You Need a Paper, Throwing a Tree and The Flamingo That Flew To The Snow so, you can check these posts as well.
Playthings Questions & Answers
Question 1: Where was the child sitting?
Answer: The child was sitting outside in the dust.
Question 2: What is the child playing with?
Answer: The child was playing with a broken twig.
Question 3: Which activities was the poet busy in?
Answer: The poet was busy in adding up figures, while doing his accounts.
Question 4: What has the poet forgotten?
Answer: The poet has forgotten the art of getting absorbed in the play of sticks and mud-pies.
Question 5: What did the poet struggle to cross?
Answer: The poet struggled to cross the sea of his desires, in his weak canoe.
Question 6: What do you understand by the phrase ‘the sea of desire’?
Answer: Every grown-up man seeks many desires and keeps roaming on his weak boat, trying to fulfil all the desires that are a never-ending sea.
Question 7: Why is the poet sad?
Answer: The poet is sad because he knows that he is running behind things he will never be satisfied with.
Question 8: Why is the poet saying that he has forgotten he is playing a game?
Answer: The poet is saying that he has forgotten that he is playing a game because according to him, life is a game which everyone needs to play.
So, these were the Questions & Answers.