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feeling its rasp on my fingers,
draw out the map of every lilac leaf
or the net of veins on my father’s
grief-tranced hand.
Out of my head, half-bursting,
still filling, the dream condenses--
shadows, crystals, ceilings, meadows, globes of dew.
Under the dull green of the lilacs, out in the light
carving each spoke of the pram, the turned porch-pillars,
under high early-summer clouds,
I am Effie, visible and invisible,
remembering and remembered. by Adrienne Rich
10.1. Match the following words with their opposite meanings.
a. under i. expands
b. collapses ii. over
c. grief iii. bright
d. condenses iv. stands
e. dull v. bright
10.2. Tick the correct answer.
a. The narrator in the poem is .............................................
Effie the poet Effie’s mother
b. The narrator’s parents are ......................................... in the picture.
carrying a pet in black clothes
hidden behind the house
c. The narrator would feel the ................................ in her fingers.
cat’s fur strips of the pram
rasp of the grass
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