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1. What is the significance of the title of the poem?
2. Using evidence from stanza 1, say why the persona consider the boys to be rough? 3. Identify the simile in stanza 2. How does it help you to understand the persona's response to the poem? 4. Identify the metaphor in stanza 2. How does it help you to understand what is happening to the persona? 5. Explain the meaning of the word 'lithe' (l.10). How does it help you to understand how the persona was treated? 6. Quote the simile in stanza 3. What does this imply about the persona's experience 7. Quote one line that shows the persona's response to the 'children who were rough'. 8. Why could the persona not forgive the boys? |
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Contributor: Leisa Samuels-Thomas
