53. 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. What does Rich imply when she says “The grammar turned and attacked
me” ?
(A) Language that has been used to hurt her.
(B) Her lover has beaten her.
(C) The person she is leaving is not the source of pain but something else.
(D) The pain she has herself inflicted through language.
Choose the right answer:-
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