Are You Still Playing Your Flute? Are you still playing your flute? ‘When there is hardly time for our love Tam feeling guilty Tobe longing for your song ‘The melody concealed in the slim hollow of the bamboo Uncovered by the breath of an artist Blown by the wind ‘Tothe depth of my heart Are you still playing your flute? In the village so quiet and deserted ‘Amidst the sick rice fields While here it has become a luxury ‘To spend time watching the rain Gazing at the evening rays | Collecting dew drops Orenjoying the fragrance of flowers. | Are you stil playing your flute? ‘The more it disturbs my conscience tobe thinking of you in the hazard of you my younger brothers unemployed and desperate my people disunited by politics my friend slaughtered mercilessly this world is too old and bleeding By Zurinah Hassan Read the poem Are You Still Playing Your Flute? and answer the questions that follow. (a) What do you know about the persona’s beloved? (b) How does the persona feel about the other person being more interested in the flute? (c) Whatis the flutist’s village deserted and its rice fields sick?(a). The persona isin a different place as her partner. i Where do you think the persona probably is? ii Would you like to be in that same place? If not. where would you like to be? Read the poem Ave You Still Playing Your Flute? ad answer the questions that follow. (a) Which lin stanza | tells us how a flute is played? (b) How would the persona like to spend her time? (©) What condition are the rice fields? (d)_ The persona repeats the question, Are you still playing your flute? i Explain in your own words why you think she does this? i Do you think she should be doing this? Why?Read the poem Are You Still Playing Your Flute? and answer the questions that follow. (a) What is the persona’s relationship with the person on the flute? (b) What is the problem in the relationship between the persona and the fhitist? ing the flute is not leaving his village? (c) Why do you think the man play () i Inyourown words, explain the last line this world is to0 old and bleeding ii How is the persona affected by this?