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Question 1 :
How old do you think Amanda is? How do you know this?
Question 2 :
Who is the speaker in Stanza 2, 4 and 6? Do you think this speaker is 'listening to the speaker in Stanzas 1, 3, 5 and 7?
Question 5 :
Read the last stanza. Do you think Amanda is sulking and is moody?
Question 7 :
What does the girl yearn for? What does this poem tell you about Amanda?
Question 9 :
How does the poet describe the moon: (a) at the beginning of the third stanza, and (b) at its end? What causes this change?
Question 10 :
Where are the trees in the poem? What do their roots, their leaves and their twigs do?
Question 11 :
Why do you think that the poet does not mention “the departure of the forest from the house” in her letters? (Could it be that we are often silent about important happenings that are so unexpected that they embarrass us? Think about this again when you answer the next set of questions.)
Question 13 :
What picture do these words create in your mind: “... sun bury its feet in shadow...'? What could the poet mean by the sun’s ‘feet’?
