Born yesterday

Question 1

What 2 ideas are within the poem?

Answer 1

1. protecting her + encouraging her not to conform
2. wishes her to be mundane + average (herself) so she’s not dissapointed in trying to stand out

Question 2

1 - ‘____ bud’

Answer 2

tightly-folded - metaphor = hasn’t been exposed to societal expectations + protected from it

Question 3

1 - ‘not the __ stuff’

Answer 3

usual - coloquial = defying unacheivable cliches

Question 4

1 - ‘__ girl’

Answer 4

lucky - coloquial = if you do fit all these expectations

Question 5

2 - ‘like other __’

Answer 5

women - parenthesis = be like other women

Question 6

2 - ‘not __, not good-looking, nothing uncustomary’

Answer 6

ugly - repeated negators = superficial desires - be average

Question 7

2 - ‘may you be __’

Answer 7

dull - value in being average

Question 8

2 - ‘if that is…__ is called’

Answer 8

happiness - syndetic listing/rhyming couplet = redefines her wishes of what is valuable - being dull