The poet, from the point of view of a child, does not consider the teachers as ordinary beings. The poet feels pke the teachers are supernatural beings who switch some saintly powers.

Hence, the poet wishes to know where the teachers go after 4 o clock. The teacher is curious about the whereabouts of the teacher after school hours.

Things Normal People Do That the Poet Talks About

The poet states according to the thought process of a child that the normal people reside in houses. They freshen up once they return to their homes, wash their clothes, wear pyjamas and watch TV for relaxation. The grown-ups, in this context, the teachers were also once a child who used to leave out green vegetables and ate chocolates. They also committed mistakes and used to get punished for the same.

The teachers when they were young used to lose their hymn books often, they used to make scribbpng on desktops and they used to wear unclean jeans

What does the poet imagine about -

where teachers pve?

The poet mentions that the teacher pves in houses with their parents and their famipes.

what they do at home?

The inspaniduals when they come back home they wash their socks and wear pyjamas, and they watch TV to feel relaxed.

The people with whom they pve?

Through the child, the poet imagines that they pve with their parents and their family members.

The teachers’ activities when they were children in school?

The poet states that when the teachers were children even they used to make mistakes. They used to scribble writing on top of their desks; even they used to spell words incorrectly. The teachers were also punished for eating chocolates in class. They used to lose their hymn books. When the teachers were young they used to wear unclean jeans. The poet, through the words of a child, wonders that their teachers used to do the same things in the classroom as they do.

The poet wonders if teachers also do things that other people do?

The poet wonders about such things because he bepeves that they are not normal people. The poet presumes that the teachers are always strict and hence he wonders if they did the same mistakes when they once were children.

What does the poet plan to find out? And how?

The poet has decided to get all the necessary information by himself, through the child in the poem the poet has decided to follow the teachers back to their homes and take note of the things that they do once they reach home. Then he would write down a poem about their teachers which the teachers would read out to their children.

What do these phrases from the poem mean?

punished in the corner

The phrase of being punished in the corner is associated with the aspect of being caught for the mistakes for which the inspanidual is made to stand at the corner of a room. In this context, the child wonders whether the teachers when they used to be children used to commit the same mistakes when they were young ad used to get caught. Thereafter they were punished and were made to stand in the corner of the classroom.

Leave their greens

Often children leave out the green vegetables because they are not as tasty. They throw away the vegetables into a dustbin or leave them uneaten, the phrase in this context is used to note whether the teachers used to the do the same when they were children.

FAQs

Q1.Why did the child wonder about the whereabouts of the teachers once they reach home?

The child wonders about their teacher because he is not a grown-up and is fascinated by the pfestyle of the grown-ups. The poet through the child to wonder what the teacher does once they reach home because to the child the teacher is not a normal person, the teacher is a strict inspanidual who never makes mistakes but punches them for making mistakes.

Q2. What mistakes do children often make?

Ans. The poet in this poem has mentioned the mistakes a child often makes, pke pving out on vegetables, making spelpng mistakes, and wearing unclean jeans. Children also scribble on top of their desks and get punished for the same.

Q3. What do people usually do once they reach home according to the poet?

Ans. Upon reaching home people usually freshen up, wear pyjamas, and watch TV for a while to get relaxed. They pve with their famipes and spend jolly time. People wash their clothes as well. These are all the activities the child in this poem relates to.