Amanda Poem Class 10th Main Points

 

Main Points of the Poem

1.         The little girl Amanda is biting her nails and her mother stops her from doing so.

2.         Then she tells Amanda not to slouch(झुकाना) her shoulders and tells her to sit up straight.Her mother also asks her to lift up her shoulders and adopt the right posture.

3.  Amanda is lost in a world of dreams and fantasy(कल्पना लोक, imagined).

4.  She imagines herself as a mermaid who lives in a peaceful emerald(हरा,green) sea all alone and moves around freely and blissfully.

5.  Amanda’s mother asks if she has finished her homework, tidied her room and reminds her that she had told her to clean her shoes and that she hasn’t done so.

6.  But Amanda has again drifted to the world of dreams and fantasy.

7.  She imagines that she is an orphan who roams around the streets freely and walks on the soft dust with her bare feet drawing designs on it.

8.  She loves silence, and freedom to live her life as per her wishes.

9. In the real world Amanda’s mother stops her from eating chocolate.

10. And reminds her that eating chocolate might cause her acne problem.

11. Then her mother tells Amanda that she must not look the other way when her mother is speaking to her.

12. Amanda withdraws into her fantasy world for the last time so that she can escape from her mother’s nagging.

13. She imagines herself to be Rapunzel. Rapunzel is a German fairy tale

14. She imagines that she is perfectly happy to live alone in the tower, for she has nothing to worry about. Life over there is peaceful, and solitary.

15. In fact, she is so happy with her life that she will never let down her hair in an attempt to escape from the tower or to allow anyone inside.

16. In the last stanza, Amanda’s mother tells her to stop sulking.

17. She also accuses her daughter of having mood swings very frequently.

18. Finally, she tells Amanda that anyone who saw her would think that her mother has been nagging her.

19. It is obvious that Amanda’s mother feels it is her duty to correct her daughter and to teach her the proper way to behave.

20. She does not realize that this can be an exhausting or irritating experience for Amanda.

Amanda Poem Class 10 English Central Idea

                                                 Central Idea 

This poem describes several encounters between Amanda and her mother, in which her mother always corrects her behaviour, telling her to sit up straight and not to sulk, to clean her room and not to have chocolates. In response, Amanda withdraws into a world of fantasy and imagines herself to be in other situations than her own – as a mermaid, as an orphan and as the princess Rapunzel. 

In childhood, we are happy to listen to fairy tales and believe in them. But at some point of time or the other, we all have to grow up. One part of growing up is leaving fairy tales behind and learning to accept reality as it is. Hence, we must get used to having our own set of responsibilities, such as doing our homework or keeping our rooms clean. 

This is a part of every child’s growth into adolescence and then adulthood. But Amanda wants to indulge in fantasies than clean her room or her shoes. She wants to postpone growing up and would like to remain a child for just a little bit longer.