54. 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. How would you compare Rich’s poem and Donne’s poem with the same title
?
Question Navigator
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 |
| 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 |
| 16 | 17 | 18 | 19 | 20 |
| 21 | 22 | 23 | 24 | 25 |
| 26 | 27 | 28 | 29 | 30 |
| 31 | 32 | 33 | 34 | 35 |
| 36 | 37 | 38 | 39 | 40 |
| 41 | 42 | 43 | 44 | 45 |
| 46 | 47 | 48 | 49 | 50 |
| 51 | 52 | 53 | 54 | 55 |
| 56 | 57 | 58 | 59 | 60 |
| 61 | 62 | 63 | 64 | 65 |
| 66 | 67 | 68 | 69 | 70 |
| 71 | 72 | 73 | 74 | 75 |
