1. Night and day I keep singing—humming and thrumming:
a. Why does the copper wire have to work night and day?
b. Explain the line in your own words. (Poem under 5he telephone pole)
Answers
Answer:
CAuse it has to too
Explanation:
Bcs different people have to talk at different time , some times in emergency ,people have to talk at late nights.
Answer:
a. Because people converse through telephone lines at all hours of the day and night, the copper wire must function 24 hours a day, seven days a week.
b. The phone lines have been ringing nonstop for the past twenty-four hours, with individuals speaking from all over the world.
Explanation:
Given poem: Under a Telephone Pole
Summary:
'Under a Telephone Pole,' by Carl Sandburg, depicts a personified copper wire line suspended above the 'death and laughter of men and women' whose voices run through it. The charged, gleaming telephone wires that hum continuously above the residents below, as if they are the gatekeepers of the city's private information, are the poem's central image. Sandburg compares the bizarre phenomena of sounds travelling through copper wire with the telephone line's small and negligible presence:'slung in the air.' The extended metaphor that ties the work of the telephone wire with that of a soldier or courier whose job it is to transport critical messages between people is perhaps the most significant. The line's 'humming and thrumming' resembles a soldier's marching drum beat, while the references to 'love, war, and money' allude to items that are used to legitimise the transmission of messages across copper lines. The mystery and awe of the telephone and the human voice it carried was a lyrical topic that emphasised the aural essence of lyric, as these three lyrics indicate.