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1

Placed in stanza 1, is a sensory image. It creates a visual picture of two clasped hands. Find four more sensory images in the same stanza.

2

Choose the most appropriate option.

Who are the two people being separated?

2

Is the separation

A) permanent as in death


B) imposed upon themselves


C) temporary

3

Complete the summary of the poem based on your understanding:

In the first stanza, two the young lovers who know that there is no future in the relationship are being ______________. They may continue to live in the same town but they know their worlds have to be two ______________ones, physically and mentally. They are physically walking away from each other and reconciling to this fact ______________also.


The second stanza states very clearly that, 'there is no ______________now and 'distance ______________and engulfs ______________.


The third and the fourth stanzas deal with the emotions of the lovers who are still thinking of their ______________. The speaker is trying to forget his/her ______________and get on ______________. She/he feels ______________inside, but life ______________on. She/he feels so dead that she/he cannot ______________and her/his heart which has become ______________and ______________, cannot break. She/he think of this separation as a ' ______________', a disaster known only to the two of them and wonder at the tragedy where both of them will have to live in two separate worlds from tomorrow. She/he knows that it is time to draw a ______________ relationship, however ______________ this act may be.