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Literature: Poem

Are You Still Playing Your Flute?

Question and answer

1. Who is the persona in the poem?


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2. Write one line from the poem that depicts that people
are jobless.
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3. Provide three phrases that depict the message of cruel
realities of a nation in uncertainty of its future.
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4. In your own words describe why the poet used the word
sick to describe the rice fields.
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5 What did the persona mean when she said deserted?


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6. Why is the persona feeling guilty?

7. Why is the question Are you still playing your flute


repeated as the starting line of all the stanzas?

8. In your opinion, is this a romantic poem? Provide


reasons for your answer.
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Practice 5
1. a very perceptive and reflective woman.
2. my younger brothers unemployed and desperate
3. my people disunited by politics
my friend slaughtered mercilessly
this world is too old and bleeding.
4. Perhaps the yield is not rewarding/ the harvest is
destroyed due to bad weather.
Practice 6
5. the villagers have left/migrated.
6. Feeling guilty as she is enjoying the music when the
nation is plagued with problems

7. This is to stress on the activity as something that


should not be done when the nation is facing so much
trouble.
8. No, it is not a romantic poem. It is poem that shows
the irony between a leisure activity and problems
faced by the nation at the same time.

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