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Understanding the Poem, , Answer these questions., , 1. |'speak to you as one whose clan / Has served and therefore studied man says the elephant, and it goes on to list a series of different qualities found in man. What strikes you about that list?, Are the reasons consistent or cont jive two examples., , What, according to the elephant, is in the middle of all such contradictions?, Do you agree with this opinion of hu, , , , , , , 2. He sees the planet as his fief... What kind of linking follows from it?, , What is the consequence for the rest of the planet?, , S. When the road comes, the forest goes, Explain what this means in its context., (Why are roads made to a forest?), , 4. Areservoir is being built by destroying a lot of bamboo, which is eaten by the elephant and the, tragopan —the trout thinks happily that the reservoir will provide it with ‘endless space’. How does the, elephant correct the trout's notion? Which line in that stanza means ‘we will, , all die together’?, , 5. You will all be homeless, like us all. Who is saying this to whom?, What will make the listeners homeless?, , Appreciating the Poem, iF ‘second stanza, a distinction is made between ‘unanimity’ and ‘proximity’ (fully united—fairly, 2 i Hd Another one f this is ‘cloth without’, and ‘food within’ (something to cover the outside—, , ae eater eich Cairne haben 04 Gant