Question

Answer these questions.
1. Who is being addressed in the poem-who is 'you'? Are they present, or even alive?
How can we tell? (line 2)
2. There are two dances mentioned in the first stanza. Which are they? What does each of them
represent?
3. What is left of the cranes which used to dance in the fields? Do the words 'all that remain' indicate
that a lot remains or that very little remains? What is the condition of what remains?
4. Who views/listens to the poor-quality audio/video material? How do they react to it? Is there a big
contrast between their reaction and the speaker's?
B. Answer these questions in detail.
Now the city-dwellers watch documentaries and marvel at the wonders the world once held.
1. Does this mean that the city-dwellers have the same attitude to the cranes as the speaker?
2. Would the city-dwellers feel deeply sad if the documentaries disappeared, in the way the speaker
is sad that the cranes are gone?
ppreciating the Poem
What do expressions like 'lost', 'empty now' and 'only ghosts' indicate? Choose one of these.​

Answer 1

Answer:

no poem here how would we tell