Summary of the poem the telephone call by fleur adcock
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Hi there. The poem The Telephone Call by Fleur Adcock is about a telephone call made to someone and the caller announced to him/her that he/she has won the more than a million pounds Ultra‑Super Global Special prize in the Universal Lotteries. Of course, the initial reaction of the receiver is of disbelief, speechless but happy. Then the caller explains that it is not true and the receiver is just being fooled around.
The poem is about how people are being hoaxed/ played prank- how they hoped but get disappointed in the end.
The poem "The Telephone Call" by Fleur Adcock is about getting a telephone call about being a winner. Then the caller will tell you it is not real money. This telephone call will make the receiver delighted upon hearing the news of winning then disappointed about knowing that it is not true.
Each one of us has has experienced happiness upon hearing a good news even if we haven't verified the information as true or fraud. And it is normal to feel down, once we found that the information is a fraud (though we might have thought that there is a possibility of not being true).
Like many of Fleur Adcock's poems, this talks about our attitude in life is the main thing which makes us happy or unhappy, successful or unsuccessful.
We should always be happy with whatever situation we might be in and continue to doing our best to alleviate our selves, since we only had one life and we should not waste it by being sad over the things that we could have change by doing something good.