A2.Answer these questions.
1.
How is the slave described in the poem?
2.
What visions of his native land did the slave see?
3. What relationship did he share with the forests and desert?
4. Why did the slave feel exhausted in the beginning of the
poem?
5. Does the slave achieve freedom at last? How?
Answers
Answer:
ans 1. the slave is described to us lying next to some un-gathered rice with a sickle in his hand. he is sleeping, dreaming of the native land from which he has been born.
ans 2. the slave see that he is back in his homeland, riding along the majestic Niger river . in his dream, he was been transformed into a king presence. he surveys the palm trees on the plain and hears the caravans of travelers descend from the mountains
ans 3. The enslaved person, whose life and death are the subject of this poem, shares a love of and desire for freedom with the forest, which is said to "[shout] of liberty," and the desert, which blasts
ans 4.In the beginning of the poem the slave was lying near a field of '' ungathered” rice. In his hand, he holds a sickle apparently for use in harvesting the crops.
ans 5.The slave does indeed achieve freedom, but sadly it's only through death. It says something about the horrors of slavery that death comes as such a blessed release from a life of endless toil and degradation.