How would you characterise the speaker in the poem ‗Amanda!‘? List any
two qualities, supporting the reason of your choice, with evidence from the
poem.
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Explanation:
Dear student, In the last stanza, Amanda's mother calls her someone who always sulks and is moody. She further adds that Amanda should stop sulking and behaving so moody because that would make others think that she keeps nagging Amanda.
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The poem "Amanda" is written by an Australian author Robin Mc Maugh Klein. The speaker in the poem is one of Amanda's parents, who is teaching her how to be presentable and acceptable in society . Amanda is a small girl who is termed as moody for her careless behaviour. But it is very surprising to know that this is her defence mechanism to shield against her nagging parents . She bites her nails, hunches her shoulders, slouches while sitting, doesn't finish her homework, leaves the room untidy, forgets to clean her shoes, eats chocolate when she is not supposed to be, and forgets that she has acne so doesn't take care of herself.She is, after all, a child and wants to enjoy her life not doing these everyday mundane things. She wants to do things when she would like to and not when she is told to and hence her parents possibly have a tough time with her. But she has this inner vivacity and lives a rich life where she can be sole inhabitant, mermaid-like in an emerald sea which is languid and just lazes around. She imagines herself as an orphan roaming the street because she is exasperated with all the lessons in proper behaviour that are thrown at her all the time. She feels that silence is golden and tastes the sweetness of freedom where she is not told to do things. Amanda's free spirit seems to be struggling in the tussle between her free will and the rules of proper social conduct, it remains to be seen if her creative soul will triumph in freedom.