(i) Who is the speaker in the poem?
(ii) With your partner list out the happenings the speaker is worried about.
(iii) Why do you think she/he has these worries? Can you think of ways to get rid of such worries?
Read the following line.
Some what ifs crawled inside my.
Case can words crawl into your ear? This is an image. The poet is trying to make an image of what she/he experiences. Now with your partner try and list out some more images from the poem.
In groups of four discuss some more 'what ifs' that you experience in your day-to-day life and list them out.
(i)........... (ii) ........... (ii)...........
(iv)........... (v) ........... (iv) ...........
(vii)........... (viii)...........
Now write a poem of five or six lines with 'what ifs' that you have listed.