When the poet witnessed the death of her canary as a child, she was not immediately moved to "tears or sadness" but was struck by the "fitness" of the burial of the canary. However, she later experienced loss as an adult and felt a deep sense of grief:
Not knowing death would be hard
Later, dark, without form or purpose.
After my first true grief I wept, was sad, was dark, . . .
After she finished grieving, she recalled her childhood response to the death of the canary. She feels that her first response was wiser, though it seems to lack sensitivity. She feels that all human experience is a form of play, and death is a kind of farewell ritual:
The yellow bird sings in my mind and I say
That the child is callous but wise, knows the purpose of play.
When we use the indirect or reported speech to rewrite the sentence, it becomes the following:
Lhamo commanded Pema to leave her alone.
<h3 /><h3>Reported speech</h3>
We use reported speech to tell others what someone said. The verb we use indicates the type of sentence that was said by that person.
For example, "state" and "command" indicate different types of sentences. "State" is used for affirmations, whereas "command" is used for orders.
In the sentence we rewrote above, we used "command" since Lhamo was ordering the other person to leave her alone.
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