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The poem is about a girl named Amanda who is constantly nagged by her mother about her behavior and actions. Amanda wants freedom from these restrictions and imagines living without responsibilities as a mermaid drifting in the sea or alone in a tower like Rapunzel. However, her mother continues to point out her mistakes and interfere frequently, making Amanda unhappy with her lack of freedom and autonomy.

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Amanda Class 10 NOTES

The poem is about a girl named Amanda who is constantly nagged by her mother about her behavior and actions. Amanda wants freedom from these restrictions and imagines living without responsibilities as a mermaid drifting in the sea or alone in a tower like Rapunzel. However, her mother continues to point out her mistakes and interfere frequently, making Amanda unhappy with her lack of freedom and autonomy.

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AMANDA

Class 10

Introduction
Robin Klein has expressed the views of a little girl, Amanda who is constantly
pointed out by her mother for making mistakes. Mistakes which she considers
so as they are not part of the code of good conduct laid out by the society in
which we live.
Summary
The poem Amanda is about a small child whose parents are forever nagging
her about what to do and what not to do. This frequent interference makes
her very unhappy. It seems as if she is not free to do anything that she wants
to do. She wants freedom from all restrictions. She dreams to lead a life of a
mermaid in a Languid, emerald sea with her being the only inhabitant there.
She feels that an orphan has more freedom than her. She also wished to lead a
calm and quiet life in a tower like that of Rapunzel with nobody to disturb her.
Vocabulary
Stanza 1
Hunch: bend
Slouching: sitting in a lazy way
Languid: relaxed
Emerald: here, green colour
Inhabitant: resident
Drifting: carried slowly by the water
Blissfully: happily

Literary devices
Anaphora: Repeated use of a word at start of two or more lines (don’t bite…
don’t hunch)
Assonance: use of vowel sound ‘o’ (don’t hunch your shoulders)
Rhyme: aaba ccc (Amanda, Amanda, straight, Amanda, sea, me, blissfully)
Metaphor: use of word emerald sea for green colour of sea being similar to the
colour of emerald
Repetition: use of word ‘Amanda’
Imagery: drifting blissfully
Alliteration: ‘Stop that slouching and sit up straight’ – ‘s’ sound is being
repeated at the start of closely placed words.
Allusion: ‘mermaid’ is a well-known imaginary creature.

Stanza 2
Orphan: A child whose parents are dead
Hushed: quiet and still place
Literary devices:
Anaphora: Repeated use of a word at start of two or more lines (did you
finish….did you tidy)
Rhyme: Rhyme scheme is aada eee (Amanda, Amanda, shoes, Amanda, street,
feet, sweet)
Assonance: use of vowel sound ‘o’ (Thought, told, you, your, shoes)
Repetition: use of word ‘Amanda’
Metaphor: silence is golden – silence is said to be glorious like golden colour
freedom is sweet – freedom is said to be sweet in taste.
Stanza 3
Acne: Pimples
Rapunzel: A girl in the fairy tale by Brothers Grimm
Tranquil: calm, quiet
Rare: uncommon
Literary devices:
Allusion: use of famous fairy tale character Rapunzel
Rhyme: rhyme scheme aafa ggg (Amanda, Amanda, you, Amanda, care, rare,
hair)
Assonance: use of vowel sound ‘e’ and ‘o’ (Will you please look at me when I’m
speaking to you
Consonance: use of sound ‘r’ (I am Rapunzel; I have not a care …..Bright hair)
Repetition: use of word ‘Amanda’
Stanza 4
Sulking: be in a bad mood
Moody: unstable
Nagged: harass
Literary Devices:
Alliteration: ‘Stop that sulking’ – ‘s’ sound is repeated at the start of closely
placed words
Repetition: use of word ‘Amanda’
Rhyme scheme: aaha (Amanda, Amanda, you, Amanda)

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