Question

THE CONSEQUENCES OF DISSENSION 51
b. What kind of books are being publicly burned?
c. Where is the writer who writes 'fierce letters to the
morons in power' located?
d. Why does the exiled poet want to protest when he finds
out that his books had not been burned?
e. What is the tone of the poem? How is it made evident
through the verse?
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Answer 1

Answer:

When the Regime

commanded the unlawful books to be burned,

teams of dull oxen hauled huge cartloads to the bonfires.

Then a banished writer, one of the best,

scanning the list of excommunicated texts,

became enraged: he'd been excluded!

He rushed to his desk, full of contemptuous wrath,

to write fierce letters to the morons in power —

Burn me! He wrote with his blazing pen —

Haven't I always reported the truth?

Now here you are, treating me like a liar!

Burn me!