XAT 2025 Question Paper | Verbal Ability and Logical Reasoning
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Read the following poem and answer the TWO questions that
follow.
Look how you turned on
the ceiling fan—it’s too high,
see how it shakes and trembles.
You walk into this room
with your hot ideas
and the ceiling fan has to work harder
to cool down the room
for us. You walk into this room
with your crazy eyes
and the ceiling fan
wants to fly loose. It dreams
of becoming a spider lily.
Which of the following statements BEST conveys the theme of the poem?
- The poem conveys a subtle art of argumentation and counter-argumentation.
- The poem talks about inner conflict resolved by an attempt to restore balance.
- The poem talks about a conflict between transformation and escapism.
- The poem conveys fear and anxiety due to the loss of stability.
- The poem conveys quest for self during emotional turmoil.
The poem conveys fear and anxiety due to the loss of stability.
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Explanatory Answer
Option D is the correct answer.
The poem is difficult to interpret, but the themes discussed do stand out. The scene described is that you walk into a room with 'hot ideas' and 'crazy eyes', turning on the ceiling fan which 'shakes and trembles', working hard to cool the room down. The ceiling fan wants to break free; it dreams of becoming something else — a spider lily (a flower).
Looking at the options, we can rule out option A. While 'argumentation' can be loosely associated with 'hot ideas', there is no counter-argumentation being discussed in the poem.
Option B, too, does not seem right as there is no restoration of balance or resolution being discussed in the poem. The ideas you come up with are hot and crazy and the ceiling fan is made to work so hard it wants to fly loose. Option B is out.
Option C talks about the conflict between transformation and escapism. No such conflict is described in the poem. It is the ceiling fan that wants to both transform to a lily and fly loose. No conflict here. So, option C is out.
In option D, 'loss of stability' seems to chime in with the picture of the ceiling fan shaking and trembling in the poem. 'Fear' and 'anxiety' can be associated with the ceiling fan too. It wants to fly loose looking at your crazy eyes (fear) and it works hard to cool the room heated by your ideas (anxiety). This is a possible answer.
Consider option E. It talks of the quest for self. There is no sense of introspection in the poem. This option too is ruled out.
So, by eliminating other options and associating key phrases/ideas, option D emerges the correct choice.
The answer is 'The poem conveys fear and anxiety due to the loss of stability.'
Choice D is the correct answer.
