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Unit One: Father of the Nation Bangabandhu's Family in 1971 The Tale of Homecoming Bangabandhu at the UN Bangabandhu's Relationship with other countries Unit Two: Pastimes Have You Any Favourite Pastime? Reading Really Helps Change in Pastime Change in Pastimes in Bangladesh Pastimes Vary Unit Three: Events and Festivals Mother's Day May Day International Mother Language Day - 1 International Mother Language Day - 2 Independence Day Pahela Baishakh Unit Four: Are We Aware? The Ferry Boat Are We Too Many? Our Food and Shelter The Story of Lipi Let's become skilled workforce Unit Five: Nature and Environment The Greed of the Mighty Rivers Environmental Pollution Man and Climate Putting Our Fish In Hot Water A Friend of The Earth Unit Six: Our Neighbors Nepal, The Land of Everest Sri Lanka: The Pearl of the Indian Ocean The Maldives India: Unity In Diversity Bhutan: The Land of Happiness Unit Seven: People Who Stand Out Zainul Abedin, The Great Artist The Art Of Silence The Beginning Love For Humanity Love For Humanity The wizard of Apple Job's Childhood Unit Eight: World Heritage The Shat Gambuj Mosque The Somapura Mahavihara The Statue of Liberty Lake Baikal Unit Nine: Unconventional Jobs Jobs That People Do Weired jobs Around Floral Career Unit Ten: Dreams Have a Dream What I Dream to be They Had Dreams (Part- 1) They Had Dreams (Part- 2) Unit Eleven: Renewable Energy Renewable Energy Sources (Part 1) Renewable Energy Sources (Part 2) Unit Twelve: Roots My Roots My Roots 2 The Return Of the Native In Search Of Identity Unit Thirteen: Media and Modes of E-communication Media and Modes Of E-Communication Social Network Sevices E- Learning Unit Fourteen: Pleasure and Purpose Books Two Mothers Remembered The Sands Of Dee Time, You Old Gipsy Man Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening The Purple Jar (Part -1) The Purple Jar (Part -2) The Purple Jar (Part -3) A Pond of Flesh The Three Caskets The Trial

Two Mothers Remembered

নবম-দশম শ্রেণি (দাখিল) - English for Today - Unit Fourteen: Pleasure and Purpose | | NCTB BOOK
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A. Read the poem and answer the following questions
 

                                                  Two Mothers Remembered
 

I had two Mothers - two Mothers I claim 

Two different people, yet with the same name. 

Two separate women, diverse by design, 

But I loved them both because they were mine. 

The first was the Mother who carried me here, 

Gave birth and nurtured and launched my career. 

She was the one whose features I bear, 

Complete with the facial expressions I wear. 

She gave me her love, which follows me yet, 

Along with the examples in life she set. 

As I got older, she somehow younger grew, 

And we'd laugh as just Mothers and daughters do.

 But then came the time that her mind clouded so, 

And I sensed that the Mother I knew would soon go. 

So quickly she changed and turned into the other, 

A stranger who dressed in the clothes of my Mother.

 Oh, she looked the same, at least at arm's length, 

But now she was the child and I was her strength. 

We'd come full circle, we women three,


My mother the first, the second and me.
And if my own children should come to a day, 

When a new Mother comes and the old goes away, 

Love both of your Mothers as both have loved you.
I'd ask of them nothing that I didn't do.
                                                                                         - Joann Snow Duncanson

 

Questions
Ask and answer the questions in pairs.
1. How are the two mothers different from each other?

2.  How are they the same? 

3. What did the first mother do to the speaker?
4. Who was the speaker's second mother? Describe her briefly.
5. What would be the speaker's advice to her own children?
6. Who are the three women referred to in the poem? Briefly describe them.
 

7. What should children do to their mother and why?

8. Do you like this poem? Why?

 

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