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ENGLISH 9 TTH 5:30 7:00

THE LOVERS DEATH
By: Ricaredo Demetillo

He who had lived the earth with a firm love
Is now, being infirm, laid in the earth
That covers him with green grass quietly.

Once when he walked the fields, he suddenly knelt.
And with an avid gesture clasped the earth.
His sun-lit fingers sifted dust.

Lovers would write their incoherent view
on passionate pages, but he, on the pads of meadow.
Wrote with his plow a tongue-tied love.

Fields understood, for when the harvest ripened.
Fruits lay like brown breast for his hands to pluck
And he with lightness, touched each pregnant stalk.
His house was quiet, like the man who closed.
The gate behind him when the lamplight glowed
He knew no womans touch except the earths
We thought it fitting that the sun should touch
With quite fingers the rice fronds in the field
When he, after a fever, gave himself to dusk
We could not salvage breath, but we could swathe
His body and lay it in the earth he loved
He may return and back on from a sheaf.

1. Who is the lovers lover?
2. What is the profession of the lover?
3. What do you mean by the last stanza?
4. What happened to the lovers in the end?
ANSWERS:
1. The lovers lover is the author of the poem who wrote the poem to express his feeling of grief
and melancholy to his beloved one.
2. He was a poet, essayist and a critic.
3. The fourth stanza expresses how the poet grief or mourn because of the loss of his beloved one,
how miserable his life go through whenever he remember the pains and sadness of losing his
beloved one.
4. At the end,