Answer these questions.
(i) Why does the poet want to know where the teachers go at four o’clock?
(ii) What are the things normal people do that the poet talks about?
(iii) What does he imagine about
(a) where teachers live?
(b) what they do at home?
(c) the people with whom they live?
(d) their activities when they were children in school?
(iv) Why does the poet wonder if teachers also do things that other people do?
(v) How does the poet plan to find out? What will he do once he finds out?
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(i) The poet does not consider teachers as ordinary people. He feels that they are special human beings. Hence, he wants to know where the teachers go at four o’clock and what they do after school hours.
(ii) According to the poet, normal people live in houses, freshen up after returning home, wear pyjamas, wash their clothes, watch TV, live with their parents, make mistakes, lose books, get punished, scribble on their desks, wear old dirty jeans and linen, etc.
(iii)
(a) He imagines that his teachers live in houses along with their families.
(b) They wash their socks, wear pyjamas at home, pick on their noses and even watch TV.
(c) They live with their parents and other family members.
(d) During childhood, even they were bad, made mistakes, spelled a word incorrectly and were punished for eating chocolates in class, they lost their hymn books, scribbled on desk tops or even wore dirty jeans, etc.
(iv) The poet wonders if teachers also do things that other people do because he thinks that they are not ordinary but special human beings. He assumes that these teachers are always strict, never make any mistakes and are ideal in all respects.
(v) The poet decided to get first-hand information about his teachers by following them on the way back home so that he could find out what they do after reaching home. Once he knows what they do, he plans to compose a poem, which the teachers would then read out to their students.