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Mother dear, Mother you freely give of what you have fresh food and cooked meals alike. Mother, listen to me! The crying child will call after its mother. Why dont you answer, mother, when I call? Are we quarrelling?
Mother dear, Mother you freely give of what you have fresh food and cooked meals alike. Mother, listen to me! The crying child will call after its mother. Why dont you answer, mother, when I call? Are we quarrelling?
The poem is about a child who is lamenting about his or her dead mother.
Mother dear, Mother you freely give of what you have fresh food and cooked meals alike. Mother, listen to me! The crying child will call after its mother. Why dont you answer, mother, when I call? Are we quarrelling?
The type of this poem is ballad, because it is a short narrative song, it has a dialogue between child and a dead mother
it has (incremental and burden) refrain, it has direct and simple language
What is the central message of a poem? What is the main theme of a poem?
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Mother dear, Mother you freely give of what you have fresh food and cooked meals alike. Mother, listen to me! The crying child will call after its mother. Why dont you answer, mother, when I call? Are we quarrelling?
The central message of this poem is death
Mother dear, Mother you freely give of what you have fresh food and cooked meals alike. Mother, listen to me! The crying child will call after its mother. Why dont you answer, mother, when I call? Are we quarrelling?
The one who is speaking in this poem is a crying child
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Mother dear, Mother you freely give of what you have fresh food and cooked meals alike. Mother, listen to me! The crying child will call after its mother. Why dont you answer, mother, when I call? Are we quarrelling?
A poet feels sad towards his or her dead mother
Hence, the tone is sadness or sorrow
How do you feel about this poem? What is the mood of a poem?
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Mother dear, Mother you freely give of what you have fresh food and cooked meals alike. Mother, listen to me! The crying child will call after its mother. Why dont you answer, mother, when I call? Are we quarrelling?
I feel sad or sorrow about this poem, especially for the crying child
Mother dear, Mother you freely give of what you have fresh food and cooked meals alike. Mother, listen to me! The crying child will call after its mother. Why dont you answer, mother, when I call? Are we quarrelling?
A poet uses simple and direct language which has no figures of speech
Mother dear, Mother you freely give of what you have fresh food and cooked meals alike. Mother, listen to me! The crying child will call after its mother. Why dont you answer, mother, when I call? Are we quarrelling?
A poet uses sound devices such as; alliteration (fresh and food), assonance (food and cooked), rhyme (alike and me) so as to make musical effect in a poem.
Mother dear, Mother you freely give of what you have fresh food and cooked meals alike. Mother, listen to me! The crying child will call after its mother. Why dont you answer, mother, when I call? Are we quarrelling?
A persona is unhappy, because her or his mother doesnt reply or say, actually, she is dead
Mother dear, Mother you freely give of what you have fresh food and cooked meals alike. Mother, listen to me! The crying child will call after its mother. Why dont you answer, mother, when I call? Are we quarrelling?
The form in this poem is open form or free verse form because it doesnt follow traditional specific pattern of meter and regular rhyme scheme
Mother dear, Mother you freely give of what you have fresh food and cooked meals alike. Mother, listen to me! The crying child will call after its mother. Why dont you answer, mother, when I call? Are we quarrelling?
There two characters in a poem; the crying child and the dead mother
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By Alex Wapalila