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DISCUSSION QUESTIONS:
​THIS IS THE DARK TIME, MY LOVE


1. Identify, and quote, four (4) literary devices in this poem.
2. How does EACH device help you to understand the content of the poem?
3. Explain stanza 1, line 3.
4. What is the significance of the term 'dark metal' (l. 6)
5. Explain the term 'festival of guns, carnival of misery' (l. 7).
​6. Explain the significance of the two rhetorical questions in stanza 3.
​7. Explain the last line in the poem.
Contributor: Leisa Samuels-Thomas


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