Exercise 3

Assalamualaikum to all my Muslims comrades and hi there! This time, I would like to provide you guys with two practices on the poem, In the Midst of Hardship. If you guys want to answer it successfully, you can refer to the previous entry, just click here.Practice 11. At what time of the day did the family return home?______________________________________2. Which lines in stanza 1 tell you that the family accept the hardship calmly?______________________________________3. Explain the line they had to brave the horrendous flood.______________________________________4....

Exercise 2

This is the exercise for the poem, 'The River' by Valerie Bloom. I guess all of you could answer this exercise easily since it is an objective format. All the best ! =)1. How many stanzas are there in ‘The River’?a) 5b) 6c) 7d) 82. Pastoral people who move from place to place in search of food and water are calleda) Campersb) Nomadsc) Caravan peopled) Vagrants3. To be ‘vexed’ means to bea) worriedb) angryc) irritatedd) haunted4. What is the most likely reason...

Exercise 1

This is an exercise for those who are into Literature, (especially my students), which is provided to enhance your understanding on the poem, He Had Such Quiet Eyes.Practice 11. What does the phrase quiet eyes refer to? _______________________________2. Explain the phrase layered with thinnest eyes. _______________________________3. What emotion is expressed in lines 9 and 10? _______________________________4. In stanza 3, what is the persona's advice before getting into a relationship? ________________________________Practice 21....

Poem: Mr Nobody

I know a funny little man,As quiet as a mouse,Who does the mischief that is doneIn everybody's house!There's no one ever sees his face,And yet we all agreeThat every plate we break was crackedBy Mr. Nobody`Tis he who always tears our books,Who leaves the door ajar,He pulls the buttons from our shirts,And scatters pine afar;That squeaking door will always squeak,For, prithee, don't you see,We leave the oiling to be doneBy Mr. Nobody The finger marked upon the doorBy none of us are made;We never leave the blind unclosed,To let the curtains fade.The...

Poem: In The Midst of Hardship

SYNOPSIS (OVERALL)This poem is about a family who faces hardship whereby their son’s albino buffalo is nowhere to be found. A flood occurs and they go out to find the buffalo. They reach home early in the morning without the buffalo and yet there is no sign of despair in them. Meanwhile, they can still crack jokes and roll the cigarettes.SYNOPSIS (ACCORDING TO STANZA)STANZA 1They returned home at day break and headed for the stove. Their clothes were soaking wet and tattered. Their bodies were covered with scratches and wounds. Yet, they did not display any signs of being worried.STANZA 2They...

Valerie Bloom (The River)

Valerie Bloom was born in Jamaica and came to England in 1979.She studied English with African and Caribbean Studies at the University of Kent at Canterbury.She writes poetry in English and Jamaican patois for all ages, and has performed her work throughout the world, with many television and radio appearances. Her poetry is included in a number of anthologies and she tutors regularly for schools and colleges.Her books include the Jamaican poetry collections Touch mi! Tell mi! (1983); andDuppy Jamboree and other Jamaican Poems (1991); Hot Like...

Bibsy Suenharjo (He Had Such Quiet Eyes)

Bibsy Soenharjo was born in Jakarta on 22 November 1928. Bibsy and her siblings were homeschooled and each was encouraged to pursue their own interests. She had a particular fondness for literature and, after returning home from a four-year stay in Japan, Bibsy began writing her first prose in 1957, and then poetry in the 60s. The Literary Review, an international quarterly published by Fairleigh Dickinson University in New Jersey, USA, published her first four literary pieces in their Autumn and Spring Editions in 1967 and 1968 respectively. In...