The Song of an Unborn Girl
Read the following poem carefully:
I’m an angel disguise with dimpled cheeks and laughing eyes.
Don’t you want me? I am your baby.
I have come as a gift from heaven’s hall in your heart.
Oh, hear my call Mother keep me I am your baby
Oh Mother, let me live, don’t take away my life. Mother let me live.
You know it isn’t right to stop me being born, I want to be yours
Oh Mother, let me live, don’t take away my life. Mother let me live.
I want to live my life.
Mother, you will see when you look at me and you hold me in your arms
You’ll fall In love with me,
Like a flower in your care, I am a gift so pure and fair.
Don’t you want me? I am your baby.
My little life please don ‘t abort, let me live, don ‘t cut me short.
Mother, keep me I am your baby.
(a) Whose cry is the poem?
(b). Why is the speaker in danger?
(c).What does the mother know?
(d). Which expression shows the girl child’s desire to live?
(e). When will the mother fall in love with the girl?
(f). The poet wonders why people abort girls even when:
(g).Which word in the poem means ‘to terminate or end’
(h) Give an example of ‘simile’ from the poem
Answers-
(a). The poem is the cry of an unborn baby girl.
(b). The speaker feels herself to be in danger as she is a girl.
(c). The mother knows that it is wrong to kill her
(d). The expression is “hear my call”
(e). When she will hold her in her arms
(f). They are tender, pure and fair.
(g). Abort
(h). Like a flower in your care
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