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Does the poem talk of an exclusively personal experience or is it fairly universal?

The poem talks about an experience that is fairly universal about the relationship between parents and children. The poem talks about the communication gap and how they don’t understand what either of them thinks.


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The account has only a few passive voice sentences. Locate them. In what way does the use of active voice contribute to the style of the narrative.

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Notice this construction: Tsetan was eager to have them fixed. Write five sentences with a similar structure.

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How is the father’s helplessness brought out in the poem?

 3

Identify the phrases and lines that indicate distance between father and son.