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1. Explain how we get a sense of the speaker’s uneasiness in lines 1-12.
2. What is the speaker’s attitude about herself (line 7-16) and how is it suggested?
3. What impression do we get of the mother’s feelings about her own life (lines 19-28)
4. What do you think the speaker is really saying in the last two lines?
5. This poem is about a first person experience. Think of another Kay poem which uses this style and show how it compares and contrasts with this poem in its use of techniques.
