52. Question Nos 51 to 55 are based on a poem.
Read the poem carefully and pick out the most appropriate answers.
A Valediction
Forbidding Mourning My swirling wants, your frozen lips. The grammar turned and
attacked me. Themes, written under duress. Emptiness of the notations. They gave
me a drug that slowed the healing of wounds. I want you to see this before I leave :
the experience of repetition as death the failure of criticism to locate the pain the
poster in the bus that said : my bleeding is under control A red plant in a cemetary of
plastic wreaths. A last attempt : the language is a dialect called metaphor. These
images go unglossed : hair, glacier, flashlight. When I think of a landscape I am
thinking of a time. When I talk of taking a trip I mean forever. I could say : those
mountains have a meaning but further than that I could not say. To do something
very common, in my own way.
Adrienne Rich
Q. Why does the speaker/lover in Rich’s poem plan to leave ?
I. Because her love has not been returned.
II. Because of the pain she has suffered in the relationship.
III. Because the lover has criticized her so much.
IV. Because though the pain has been located, the bleeding continues.
The right combination according to the code is
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