Question

"The survivor" what must be relinquished in lines 15-16

Answer 1

Answer:

The title of being young

Explanation:

The given question refers to the poem The survivor by Marilyn Chin:

Don’t tap your chopsticks against your bowl.

Don’t throw your teacup against the wall in anger.

Don’t suck on your long black braid and weep.

Don’t tarry around the big red sign that says

“danger!”

All the tempests will render still; seas will calm,

horses will retreat, voices to surrender.

That you have bloomed this way and not that,

that your skin is yellow, not white, not black

that you were born not a boy-child but a girl,

that this world will be forever puce-pink are just as well.

Remember, the survivor is not the strongest

or most clever;

merely, the survivor is almost always the youngest.

And you shall have to relinquish that title

before long.

When we look at the entire poem, we can conclude that what the lines 15-16 are talking about is the title of being young (lines 12-14). To relinquish something means to give it up, to surrender it. No one is forever young, and at some point, we all have to give up that title that will go to the young generations that follow us, the generations of new survivors.