Poems Of The Decade

Question 1

What is the summary of Eat Me?

Answer 1

-Eat me is about a women who is over fed by her partner as his way of ‘loving her’. However it ends by her killing him by suffocating.
-It also has themes of abuse and control.

Question 2

What is the summary of ‘Chainsaw versus the Pampas Grass’?

Answer 2

-Battle between man versus nature and nature always wins.
-The ‘man’ resembles the chainsaw, and the ‘pampas grass’ has femininity qualities which suggests the conceit is about a women.

Question 3

Summary of ‘Material’:

Answer 3

• Regrets not being a mother like her mother and grandmother were.
• Nostaglic on childhood and fondness of memories.

Question 4

Summary of ‘genetics’:

Answer 4

• Importance of a cohesive family even though parents are separated.
• The child is keeping the relationship together, she is the ‘middle man’.

Question 5

Summary of ‘The Deliverer’:

Answer 5

• illustrates gender discrimination in India, showing how girls life leads to suffering, morbid and death.
• Once in USA, childhood/life shifts to happiness but still a sadness about a mother who left her child behind.

Question 6

Summary of ‘Effects’:

Answer 6

• Touches on death within a family.
• Remembers thoughts and memories and observing the dying stage of the narrators mother.

Question 7

Summary of ‘The Furthest Distance I’ve Travelled’:

Answer 7

• Poem mentions the physical and emotional journey of travelling.
• Transition from a new journey to an experienced one.

Question 8

Summary of ‘On her Blindness’:

Answer 8

• Explores the way people cope with disabilities or struggle to.

Question 9

Summary of ‘The Gun’:

Answer 9

• The response once her husband brought a gun into the house.
• How her attitude changed towards the gun once she became used to it and liked the sense of safety.

Question 10

Summary of ‘To my 9-year old self’:

Answer 10

• An adult looking back on her childhood and wondering if she has disappointed herself.
• Highlights reality of growing up isn’t fun and exciting and how she doesn’t connect with her old self.

Question 11

Summary of ‘An Easy Passage’:

Answer 11

• Highlights the contrast of a young innocent girl and an older women who’s a secretary.
• Exploring the fleeting period between girlhood and womenhood.

Question 12

Summary of ‘Please Hold’:

Answer 12

• Frustration of new technology and how the older generation doesn’t understand how it works.
• Sense of longing for the past. 

Question 13

Summary of ‘From the journal of a disappointed man’:

Answer 13

• Shows the contrast between the narrator and the work men on a building site.
• Shows the narrators little masculinity and the builders have physical strength.

Question 14

Summary of ‘Guiseppe,:

Answer 14

• Explores the idea of war and how we treated the enemies.
• Allows us to get an understanding on the protagonists view.

Question 15

Summary of ‘The Lammas Hireling’:

Answer 15

• A new work man working on the harvest.
• Work man ends up being super nature and witch like, ending up getting killed.
• Killer tries to kill his guilty conscience.

Question 16

Summary of ‘History’:

Answer 16

• Suggest the 9/11 terrorist attack and the aftermath.
• The separation of people don’t last long and we overcome things. People are like the beach and sea, always back together.

Question 17

Summary of ‘Out of the Bag’:

Answer 17

• Differs how childhood is not always true and how it differs from adulthood.
• Sees the doctors as mythical and magical as he is perceived to make the babies.