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d. Lilac leaves are compared with ............................ in the poem.
the father’s hands Effie’s clothes
mahogany chair
e. The dream condenses ................................................
Out of Effie’s head
in the grief of Effie’s parents in the cat’s paws
f. The word ‘spoke’ in the seventeenth line of the poem means ...
.................................
past form of speak
the rod that joins two wheels the sound of clouds
10.3. Answer the following questions.
a. Where do the narrator’s parents sit?
b. Where does the narrator’s doll lie?
c. How could she make each shaft of grass?
d. Why does the dream of the narrator condense?
e. Is the narrator a dead or an alive person?
f. How do you feel when you have to give up something you love
the most?
10.4. Know more about the picture and the poem
Mourning Picture is a famous painting prepared by Edwin Romanzo
Elmer, a less known artist from Massachusetts, USA. Grieved by the
sudden death of her nine-year-old daughter Effie, Elmer prepared this
picture in love of her beloved. The picture got its title decades after
the death of the artist. In 1965 Adrienne Rich was so deeply touched
by the picture that she was inspired to write a poem on it, and thus the
poem was created. The poem is a perfect example of how literature
and art can be the sources of inspiration for each other.
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