Read the final five lines of the poem: "How they knew what we/ Must know/ Without knowing a page/ Of it/ Themselves." What is th
e author suggesting? that the women were smart even though they were not allowed to get a formal education themselves
that the women were not smart even though they were had formal educations
that the women were turning the page of history
that the women were not turning the page of history
The answer is “that the women were turning the page of history”. The lines suggest that the coming generation knows more than the older group and women are now turning a page of history for its successor. The author suggests that even the next generation is still young and lacks experience, they are equipped and wiser than the older ones.
