Q&A: POETRY LOVERS, I NEED INTERPRETATION OF THE POEM “BETWEEN THE WORLD AND ME”?
Question by CLASS OF 2011: POETRY LOVERS, I NEED INTERPRETATION OF THE POEM “BETWEEN THE WORLD AND ME”?
THIS POEM IS WRITTEN BY RICAHARD WRIGHT. All I need is someone to interpret the poem and/or answer the questions in full depth. THANKS.
And one morning while in the woods I stumbled
suddenly upon the thing,… Now I am dry bones and my face a stony skull staring in
yellow surprise at the sun… http://edhelper.com/poetry/Between_the_World_and_Me_by_Richard_Wright.htm
1.In the course of the passage, the speaker moves from detached observation to
A. vicarious suffering
B. callous indifference
C. terrified flight
D. solemn resignation
E. stubborn denial
2. The speaker’s description of the gruesome site in lines 1-2 suggests that the site had been
A. totally obscured by vegetation
B. accidentally preserved by nature
C. formally designated by an historic marker
D. recently concealed by the perpetrators of the violence
3. In the poem the charred stump of the sapling may be said to do all of the following EXCEPT
A. provide enduring evidence of the machine crime
B. reproach the divine for human wickedness
C. contrast with the otherwise idyllic setting
D. guard the entrance to the clearing
4. In delinating the scene of the ghastly event, the speaker makes the LEAST use of
A. the clothing of the deceased
B. the personal items discarded by the vigilantes
C. the ashen remnants of the fire
D. the skeletal remains of the deceased
E. the location of the incident
5. The incident at the site seems so recent that the speaker claims he can still detect the smell of
A. cigarettes
B. perfume
C. tar
D. gasoline
E. liquor
7. In the second stanza (lines 4-17), the poet personifies all
of the following EXCEPT
A. the skeleton of the deceased
B. the burnt sapling
C. the ropes that had bound the deceased
D. the night wind and the darkness
E. the killing ground itself
8. In effecting his imaginative transformation from belated witness to actual victim, the speaker relies primarily upon images of
A. sight
B. sound
C. smell
D. feeling
E. taste
9. At the end of the second stanza(line 17), the speaker emphasizes his helpless position by means of
A. hyperbole
B. metonymy
C. personification
D. irony
E. allusion.
10. The extraordinary realism of the final stanza (lines 18-25) is achieved primarily through the use of
A. purely chronological development
B. the simile comparing the flames to a boiling kettle
C. the contrast between the victim’s black skin and the white feathers
D. enjambment that accelerates the stanza’s rhythm
E. participles and verbs that intensify the speaker’s desperate agony
Best answer:
Answer by libby l
Are you SURE that’s all?
The least you could do is give us the complete poem here! Forget using links.
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