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The Living Photograph by Jackie Kay LITERAL MEANING

(Form 4) STANZA 1
The persona describes her grandmother as tall and well-dressed with a kind
smile. Her smile comes from her eyes. On her deathbed, she held the
personas small black hand in her big white hand. She was not afraid to leave
STANZA 1 the world.
My small grandmother is tall there, STANZA 2

Straight back, white, broderie anglaise shirt, The persona accepts that her grandmother has passed to the other world, as
pleated skirt, flat shoes, grey bun, all grandmothers do. Grandmother, who was of a tall stature became small,
a kind, old smile round her eyes. hunched and forgetful.
Her big hand holds mine,
white hand in the black hand. STANZA 3
Her sharp blue eyes look her own death in the eye. The persona at age three had taken a photograph with grandmother. When
she looks at the photographs, she feels grandmothers presence. To the
STANZA 2 persona, her grandmother is still very young much alive and smiling at her.
It was true, after all, that look.
My tall grandmother became small.
Her back round and hunched. FIGURATIVE MEANING
Her soup forgot to boil. STANZA 1
She went to the awful place grandmothers go. As we start off our life, we stand tall and confident. We make sure
Somewhere unknown, unthinkable everything is carried out properly without a flaw. We approach every
situation with a smile even as we offer encouragement to others and receive
STANZA 3 support in return. When faced with an inevitable situation, we face the
inevitability bravely.
But there she is still,
In the photo with me at three, STANZA 2
The crinkled smile is still living, We can feel the onset of the inevitable as we look around and notice the signs
breathing. of changes. We begin to lose our grip as things change beyond our control.
We may even forget to do certain things. But, finally the situation is out of
our hands and we have to let go.
STANZA 3
But sometimes there may be a memento to remind us of what we used to be.
The memento helps to keep our memories alive.
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THEMES PRACTICE 1
Close family ties. Read the poem The Living Photograph and answer the questions that
Grandmother granddaughter relationship. follow.
Love and appreciation.
Unwillingness to let go of someone close.
a) In stanza 1, which words mean open embroidery on white linen?
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MORAL VALUES
We must strive for close relationship with our grandparents and

parents. b) Describe the grandmothers skirt and shoes.
We should love and appreciate close family members while they are
still alive. ____________________________________________________________
Keeping a memento like a photograph helps to keep memories alive.
c) Why do you think the grandmother forgot to boil the soup?
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TONE, MOOD AND ATMOSPHERE
Appreciative and thankful.

d) look her own death in the eye
Clear and descriptive.
Style simple and Where do you think the persona was when the grandmother passed away?
understanding. Provide a reason for your answer.
i) Where :
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ii) Reason :
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PRACTICE 2 PRACTICE 3
Read the poem The Living Photograph and answer the questions that Read the poem The Living Photograph and answer the questions that
follow. follow.
a) What do the sharp blue eyes tell us about the grandmothers race? a) In stanza 3, which word means creased?
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b) According to the persona, where has the grandmother gone? b) When do you think the grandmother can be described as tall there?
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c) Do you think the grandmother can be described as brave? c) Which line tells us that the persona and her grandmother are of different
race?
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d) my tall grandmother became small

d) What do you think was the age gap between the persona and her
What has happened to the grandmothers height and how does she look then? grandmother in the photo? Provide a reason for your answer.
Provide a reason for your answer.
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i) How :
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ii) Reason :
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PRACTICE 4
Read the poem The Living Photograph and answer the questions that
follow.
a) In stanza 3, what does the smile tells us about the face?
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b) What is the main theme of the poem?
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c) Which phrase tells us the grandmothers race is different from that of the
persona?
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d) But there she is still
How do you think the persona feels when she looks at the photograph?
Provide a reason for your answer.
Feeling : ____________________________________________________
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Reason : ____________________________________________________
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The Charge of the Light Brigade by Alfred. Lord Tennyson LITERAL MEANING
(Form 4)
STANZA 1 STANZA 1
600 soldiers of the Light Brigade rode for a distance of half a league (about
Half a league, half a league, two and a half kilometers) into the Valley of Death on the orders of their
Half a league onward, commander. He had ordered them to charge forward and attack the enemy
All in the valley of Death soldiers who were in the valley.
Rode the six hundred.
Forward, the Light Brigade!
Charge for the guns! he said.
Into the valley of Death STANZA 2
Rode the six hundred. The order Forward, the Light Brigade was given. Yet, no one protested or
questioned the orders although they knew it was a blunder. As soldiers, their
STANZA 2 duty was to follow orders, whatever they were. The soldiers had no right to
questions whether the orders given were right or wrong and even if it meant
Forward, the Light Brigade! death, they still had to follow the orders. So, the 600 hundred soldiers rode
Was there a man dismayed? on into the Valley of Death.
Not though the soldier knew
Someone had blundered.
Theirs not to make reply,
Theirs not to reason why, STANZA 3
Theirs but to do and die. The enemies fired the guns or cannons from all sides, left, right and front of
Into the valley of Death them. Although they were so badly attacked, the 600 soldiers rode on boldly
and properly into the war area.
STANZA 3
Cannon to right of them,

Cannon to left of them,
Cannon in front of them
Volleyed and thundered;
Stormed at with shot and shell,
Boldly they rode and well,
Into the jaws of Death,
Into the mouth of hell

FIGURATIVE MEANING THEMES
Warfare and conflict.

Carrying out a given duty.
STANZA 1 Blind respect for authority.
In our daily life, in school or in the workplace, we may be asked to carry out Courage in the face of danger.
certain projects. These projects may be under a team leader. When we are
given instructions to do certain things, we normally as team members will do
as instructed. The norm is to follow the leader and so not knowing any better,
we tend to follow the given instructions to the letter.
MORAL VALUES
STANZA 2 We should be brave in the face of danger.

When given instructions to do something, we do not feel afraid to carry them We must struggle for peace rather than warfare.
out. We have faith in the leader and even though we know there are mistakes, When given a duty, we try out best to carry it out.
somehow or other we do not question or query. This could be because we Discussion is good approach before we carry out projects.
expect our leader to know better or that person might have more experience
than us. Therefore, our duty is to follow and not to reason out the whys and
wherefores.
TONE, MOOD AND ATMOSPHERE
STANZA 3 Tone strong and sympathetic to soldiers who have to do what they
While doing the project as directed, we may be questioned by the authorities were instructed.
and threatened with letters of complaints and expulsion. Yet we carry on Submissive though the soldiers knew someone had made a
proudly and confidently with faith in the leader. mistake, they still carried on.
Mood excited as they initially heard the orders and then it changed to fear
and horror as they rode into the valley knowing it was sure death.

Read the poem The Charge of the Light Brigade and answer the questions Read the poem The Charge of the Light Brigade and answer the questions
that follow. that follow.
Half a league, half a league, a) Who had given orders for the soldiers to ride into the valley?
Half a league onward,
All in the valley of Death ____________________________________________________________
Forward, the Light Brigade!
Charge for the guns! he said. b) What answer can we give for the question Was there a man dismayed??
Into the valley of Death Give a reason for your answer.
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a) Which word in stanza means attack?
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c) What is the main theme of the poem? Why do you think this is the main
b) Explain the words Half a league onward. theme?
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c) Why did the Light Brigade ride into the valley of death? d) someone had blundered
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do? Give a reason to support your answer.
d) rode the six hundred
Besides riding on as ordered, what do you think the soldiers could have
done? Give a reason for your answer. Action : _____________________________________________________
Action :_____________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________
___________________________________________________________ Reason : _____________________________________________________
Reason :____________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________
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Read the poem The Charge of the Light Brigade and answer the questions Read the poem The Charge of the Light Brigade and answer the questions
that follow. that follow.
a) In stanza 2, which word means to feel uneasy? a) In stanza 3, which word means to do things with confidence?
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b) In stanza 2, which phrase means willingness to honour ones duty to b) In stanza 3, which phrase give a good image of the horrors of war? Why
ones country? do you say so?
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c) Why do think the order was given to the soldiers? c) In the sentence stormed at with shot and shell, how would you describe
the dead victims?
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d) boldly they rode and well

d) Theirs not to reason why
What does this line tell us about the soldiers? Give a reason to support your
answer. Give another situation when soldiers are not allowed to reason why. Give a
reason to support your answer.
Soldiers : ____________________________________________________
Situation : ___________________________________________________
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Reason : _____________________________________________________
Reason : ____________________________________________________
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What Has Happened to Lulu by Charles Causley STANZA 1

(Form 5) Line Stanza 1 Line-by-line meaning Meaning of Stanza 1
1 What has happened to What has happened to The persona, a young
STANZA 1 Lulu, mother? Lulu, Mother? There is child is asking his
What has happened to Lulu, mother? 2 What has happened to nothing on her bed mother where his
What has happened to Lu? except an old rag-doll. sister, Lulu is. He says
Lu?
There's nothing in her bed but an old rag-doll
3 There's nothing in her And there is a shoe by there is nothing on her
And by its side a shoe.
bed but an old rag-doll the side of her bed. bed except an old rag-
4 And by its side a shoe. doll and a shoe by its
STANZA 2
side.
Why is her window wide, mother,
The curtain flapping free,
And only a circle on the dusty shelf STANZA 2
Line Stanza 2 Line-by-line meaning Meaning of Stanza 2
Where her money-box used to be?
1 Why is her window Why is her window The persona is asking
STANZA 3 wide, mother, wide open and why is his mother why Lulus
Why do you turn your head, mother, 2 The curtain flapping the curtain flapping free, window is open and
And why do tear drops fall? free, Mother? her money-box is
And why do you crumple that note on the fire 3 And only a circle on Her money-box is gone. missing.
And say it is nothing at all? the dusty shelf In its place on the dusty
4 Where her money-box shelf, there in only a
STANZA 4 used to be? circle.
I woke to voices late last night,
I heard an engine roar. STANZA 3
Why do you tell me the things I heard Line Stanza 3 Line-by-line meaning Meaning of Stanza 3
Were a dream and nothing more?
1 Why do you turn your Why are you turning The persona asks his
STANZA 5 head, mother, your head away and mother why she is
I heard somebody cry, mother, 2 And why do tear drops crying, Mother? turning her head away
In anger or in pain, fall? and crying. He asks her
But now I ask you why, mother, 3 And why do you Why do you crumple why she crumples and
You say it was a gust of rain. crumple that note on that note and throw it throws the note into the
the fire into the fire and tell me fire and tells him that
STANZA 6 4 And say it is nothing nothing is wrong? nothing is wrong.
Why do you wander about as though at all?
You don't know what to do?
What has happened to Lulu, mother?
What has happened to Lu?

STANZA 4
1 I woke to voices late I woke up when I heard The persona wants to THEMES
last night, voices and the soar of an know why his mother
engine late last night. is saying that the
Feelings of helplessness.
2 I heard an engine
voices and the roar of
Confusion over family situations.
roar.
an engine he heard are
Concern for parents and siblings.
3 Why do you tell me But why are you saying
just a dream. The roar No one is exempted from having problems.
the things I heard that what I heard was
4 Were a dream and just a dream? of an engine implies
nothing more? that his sister was
driven away in a car.
STANZA 5
MORAL VALUES
1 I heard somebody cry, I heard somebody cry in The persona heard
mother, pain or anger, Mother. somebody cry in pain Every problem can be solved if we work together.
2 In anger or in pain, or anger but his mother We should appreciate our parents love and care.
3 But now I ask you But when I ask you tells him that it must We should be concerned about our parents feelings.
why, mother, what it was, you say it have been the wind. We should realize that running away from problems is not a solution.
4 You say it was a gust was the wind.
of rain.
STANZA 6
1 Why do you wander Why are you walking The persona wants his TONE, MOOD AND ATMOSPHERE
about as though about like you are mother to explain why
2 You don't know what confused? she is confused and Inquiring and anxious.
to do? what has happened to Feeling of helplessness.
3 What has happened to What has happened to his older sister, Lulu. Perception and awareness.
Lulu, mother? Lulu, Mother?
4 What has happened to
Lu?

Read the poem, What Has Happened to Lulu? and answer the questions that Read the poem, What Has Happened to Lulu? and answer the questions that
follow. follow.
a) What is the poem about and who are the personas? a) From stanza 2, who do you think wrote the note and to whom was it
addressed?
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b) What does the open window signify?

b) Explained a theme potrayed in the poem.
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c) Based on the line, You dont know what to do in stanza 6, sum up
mothers feeling.
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running away?
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d) You say it was a gust of rain
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What has been compared to a gust of rain? Do you think the persona
accepted the explanation given by mother? Give a reason for your answer. d) What has happened to Lulu?
i) Comparison : How would you describe the tone of voice of the persona? Give two evidence
based on the poem for your answer.
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i) Tone of voice :
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ii) Evidences :
ii) Reason :
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Read the poem, What Has Happened to Lulu? and answer the questions that Read the poem, What Has Happened to Lulu? and answer the questions
follow. that follow.
a) What actions of the personas mother tell us that she feels sad?
____________________________________________________________ a) What is the tone of the poem and why do you think this is so?
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b) What does the curtain flapping free symbolise?
____________________________________________________________ b) From the mothers reaction to the personas questions, what can you
conclude about the personas age and relationship with Lulu?
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c) In stanza 3, what has puzzled the persona?
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c) What moral lesson have you learned from the poem?
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d) Based on the poem, Lulu has run away from home. What would you say to
d) I heard somebody cry a friend or any young person who talks about running away from home?
Give two suggestions.
Why would there be a cry in the middle of the night? Do you think it was
raining that night? Give a evidence to support your answer. i) Advice 1 :
i) Reason : ____________________________________________________________
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ii) Advice 2 :
ii) Opinion : ____________________________________________________________
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A Poison Tree by William Blake STANZA 1

(Form 5) Line Stanza 1 Line-by-line meaning Meaning of Stanza 1
1 I was angry with I was angry with my I had
my friend: friend. misunderstanding
STANZA 1 2 I told my wrath, I told my wrath (anger) with my friend and
I was angry with my friend: my wrath did end. to my friend and I got was angry. I told my
I told my wrath, my wrath did end. over my anger friend about my
I was angry with my foe:
3 I was angry with I was angry with my wrath. I got over my
I told it not, my wrath did grow.
my foe: foe (enemy). anger and forgot it.
4 I told it not, my I did not tell my wrath But when I got angry
STANZA 2 wrath did grow. to my foe, so my anger with my foe, I did not
And I watered it in fears grew. tell him about it. I
Night & morning with my tears; bottled up my wrath
And I sunned it with smiles, and it intensified. It
And with soft deceitful wiles.
grew and grew like a
plant.
STANZA 3
And it grew both day and night, STANZA 2
Till it bore an apple bright. Line Stanza 2 Line-by-line meaning Meaning of Stanza 2
And my foe beheld it shine,
And he knew that it was mine, 1 And I watered it in I treated my anger My anger grew like a
fears like a plant. A plant tree. I nourished my
2 Night & morning needs water and anger-tree with
STANZA 4 with my tears; sunshine. Likewise, anger, suspicious and
And into my garden stole, every day I nourished hatred. I was
When the night had veiled the pole;
my wrath with water suspicious of my foe
In the morning glad I see
My foe outstretched beneath the tree. in the form of fears and I was angry with
and tears. him. But I tricked
3 And I sunned it with I also gave my anger- him to bring him
smiles, tree sunshine in the closer to me.
4 And with soft form of smiles and Outwardly, I smiled
deceitful wiles. cunning tricks. and I was friendly to
gain his trust.

STANZA 3 THEMES
Anger, revenge and death.
1 And it grew both My tree of anger grew My tree was Communication among friends and rivals.
day and night, steadily every day poisonous because it The danger of holding back ones feelings.
2 Till it bore an apple until it bore an apple. was full of anger, Bad feelings like anger among friends and rivals.
bright. Outwardly, it was hatred and suspicion.
shiny but it was Later, it bore a shiny
poisonous. poison tree. My foe
3 And my foe beheld My enemy saw the saw it and knew it
it shine, shiny apple and he was mine. MORAL VALUES
4 And he knew that it knew it was mine.
We should be sincere, even with our rivals.
was mine, We should not allow anger to control our life.
We should make peace with everyone, friend of foe.
We should express our feelings in a healthy way and
STANZA 4 not bottle them up.
1 And into my garden One night, when One night when
stole, darkness hid the pole there were no stars,
2 When the night had star, my foe crept my foe came into TONE, MOOD AND ATMOSPHERE
veiled the pole; into my garden. (In my garden and stole
line 2, pole refers my poison apple. He Serious and perceptive.
to the pole star of fell into my trap. He Unsympathetic and intense.
North star. It is ate the apple and Sombre mood.
bright and stays fixed died. In the
in the sky.) morning, I was
3 In the morning glad I In the morning, I was happy to see him
see happy to see my foe lying dead under my
4 My foe outstretched lying dead under the poison tree.
beneath the tree tree.

Read the poem, A Poison Tree and answer the questions that follow. Read the poem, A Poison Tree and answer the questions that follow.
a) What is the poem mainly about? a) What is the difference between anger and wrath?
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b) How did the persona feed his anger? List the two ways. b) What literary device is used for night? Explain the usage.
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c) How did the persona feel when he saw his enemy lying on the ground? c) To whom did the persona show extreme anger and why do you think this
State the evidence. happened?
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d) And it grew both day and night d) and into my garden stole
What grew day and night and what exactly did it become? What does this tell How did the personas enemy enter his garden? Give the literal and
you about the persona? figurative meanings of the line above.
i) What : i) Description :
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ii) Persona : ii) Meanings :
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Read the poem, A Poison Tree and answer the questions that follow. Read the poem, A Poison Tree and answer the questions that follow.
a) In stanza 1, who are the two people the persona was angry with? a) What is the meaning of the word beheld? What literary device does this
show?
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b) What do you think was the personas frame of mind when he watered his
anger in fears? b) Do you think it was correct for the persona to do what he did with his
feelings towards his enemy? What would be the right step to take?
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c) What is the main theme portrayed by the poem?

c) What two things happened to the personas anger with his enemy?
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d) The persona had allowed the anger to fester and grow within himself. If a
d) I was angry with my friendmy foe friend is in such a situation, how would you advise him or her? Provide two
suggestions.
How does the persona solve the difference of opinion with his friend and his
foe? Do you think the persona did the correct thing in his approach to the i) Solution :
problem? Give a reason for your answer.
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i) Solution :
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ii) Reason :
ii) Reason :
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MODUL BAHASA INGGERIS INTENSIF SPM 2017 PUSAT TUISYEN IDEA UNGGUL (CIKGU DANIAL) POEMS

The Living Photograph by Jackie Kay LITERAL MEANING

My small grandmother is tall there, STANZA 2

Stop wishing. Start doing. Page 1

We must strive for close relationship with our grandparents and

c) Why do you think the grandmother forgot to boil the soup?

Appreciative and thankful.

d) my tall grandmother became small

a) In stanza 3, what does the smile tells us about the face?

b) What is the main theme of the poem?

d) But there she is still

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Cannon to right of them,

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FIGURATIVE MEANING THEMES

Warfare and conflict.

STANZA 2 We should be brave in the face of danger.

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d) boldly they rode and well

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What Has Happened to Lulu by Charles Causley STANZA 1

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b) What does the open window signify?

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b) What does the curtain flapping free symbolise?

A Poison Tree by William Blake STANZA 1

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ii) Persona : ii) Meanings :

c) What is the main theme portrayed by the poem?

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