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Bin asked in Arts & HumanitiesPoetry · 6 years ago

Questions about the poem Winter Saturday by Earle Birney! Multiplce choice please help?

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  • 6 years ago

    (THESE ARE THE QUESTIONS )

    The poem is an example of?

    A lyric

    An elegy

    A monologue

    A personal narrative

    ..2) '' But lights fail, time is false/ the town was less than its flow'' The poet suggests that the

    a. power went out

    b. trip was dissapointing

    c. farmers lost track of time

    d. snow blocked out the sun

    3) The phrase ''circle to faces'' means the farmers are..

    A rubbing their faces

    B talking to neighbous

    C huddling against the cold

    C playing a game to keep warm

    3) ''' the cold void impelled, they move/ to dreams of light and sound'' the poet implies the farmers are

    A lost in the dark

    B freezing to death

    C drawn to the town

    D avoiding the snowdrifs

  • CMV
    Lv 6
    6 years ago

    Perhaps if you took the trouble to go and read the thing , you'd find the answers you seek .

    Alternatively , remain as a disappointingly stupid specimen of humanity . ( There's no pressure . )

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