peoms

Question 1

And limbo stick is the silence in front of me’

Answer 1

isis saying that the stick that they are hit with will keep them quite and not outrage

Question 2

‘stick hit sound / and the ship like it ready’

Answer 2

it is saying that it happesns often

Question 3

‘down / down / down / and the drummer is calling me’

Answer 3

the repetition of down shows how they are oppressed

Question 4

Small round hard stones click / under my heels’

Answer 4

he uses the juxtaposition of hard and small to emphasis the pain and how they feel

Question 5

‘crushed ice white glass, /linen falls, / the single rose’

Answer 5

this shows the life of then whites and juxtaposed with the next quote

Question 6

‘Hands burn / for a stone, a bomb, / to shiver down the glass’

Answer 6

this shows the life of the blacks and how it juxtaposes with the whites

Question 7

‘What business of mine is it / So long they don’t take the yam / From my savouring mouth?’

Answer 7

saying that what directly dosent involve yourself shows it dose

Question 8

‘They came one night / Booted the whole house awake’

Answer 8

showhow they are in charge

Question 9

‘A knock on the door froze my hungry hand.’

Answer 9

shows she is scared