Question

1 Read the following poem carefully and answer the following questions.
Madam and Her Madam by Langston Hughes
I worked for a woman,
She wasn’t mean –
But she had a twelve-room
House to clean.
Had to get breakfast,
Dinner, and supper, too –
Then take care of her children
When I got through.
Wash, iron, and scrub,
Walk the dog around –
It was too much,
Nearly broke me down.
I said, Madam,
Can it be
You’re trying to make a
Pack-horse out of me?
She opened her mouth.
She cried, Oh no!
You know, Alberta,
I love you so!
I said, Madam,
That may be true –
But I’ll be dogged
If I love you!

1a. How did Alberta feel about her work? Why did she feel so?
1b. How did the ‘madam’ feel about Alberta?
1c. How did Alberta feel about her ‘madam’? Pick out the lines.
1e. Pick out the words in the poem which rhyme? What effect does the rhyme have?

Answer 1

1e.around and down,true and you

Answer 2

a.  She was feeling like horse who worked so tough .She felt because she was only one to wash,  clean to do all the household work.

b. Madam was feeling culpable to allot so much household work on Alberta and express regret to her for her current situation.

c. I will be dogged if I love you, are the lines which shows that Alberta’s feeling about her madam.

d. be - me , mean - clean , no-so  

Rhyme - is used in different parts.  

Mean - clean described that “Madam” was not cruel but Alberta had to do so many tasks by herself.