Question

2. Which of the following words does the author use to describe the objects and people in this poem?

Answer 1

The answer to the first one is A. and I think the answer to the second one is D

Answer 2

2. Which of the following words does the author use to describe the objects and people in this poem?

The correct answer is A. slumped, pinched, pouting.

• “A doll slumped behind the door”: a doll suddenly fell

• “the pinched armor of a vanished cricket”: a worn cricket armor, that was never used again. In here “vanished” represents the frustration of a sport never played again, represents the good time they lived before.  

• “before Liza appeared pouting from”: before Liza appeared showing an “I’m-about-to-cry” face.

3. The author uses a lot of words in this poem that have a negative connotation, yet she titles her poem "Daystar." Why?  

The correct answer is C. Because despite the subject's grueling work and sacrifices, she is a "star," or heroine, in the eyes of the author.  

• Here the title Daystar refers to “A star during the day”, the heroine that saves the day of the human kind, by being a mother, by leaving all the things she really wanted behind. There is no time for thinking when duty calls for this heroin, this heroin that changes diapers. A heroin that changed her palace for “pinched armors” and “ and “floating maple leaves”.