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1. Who did the speaker think the two men were? What did he
think they were up to?
The speaker thought that the two men were the agents of some
terror group, who intended to sacrifice themselves, their fellow
passengers, and the ship, in one great explosion. By overhearing
their terrible conversation, the speaker suspected that they were
carrying a bomb with them in the suspicious little square box.
MARSHLANDS (POEM)
2. What in the marsh look like ‘large cups of gold’? Can you
explain why they have been described like that?
The rays of the sun falling on mildews leaves and the way it
shines is compared to large cups of gold.
2. Look at the last stanza and describe how the poet has
brought the marsh alive.
a. Would you describe the images created in the poem as
beautiful? Or are they unpleasant? Or does beauty exist side
by side with the unpleasant? Give examples of images from
the poem to support your answer.
The poet has painted a beautiful picture of the marshlands as if
they were real deliberately using certain words such as cups of
gold, lizard shrills his tune, lazy flight, vapors creep, etc.