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By Charles Causley
Instructions:
a) Read the poem on your own.
b) Do this exercise in your writing exercise book.
c) You can either:
i) print out this page and paste this page in your exercise book
ii) write out the answers on a new page
OR
iii) rewrite everything in your exercise book
d) We will discuss the poem and the answers in class.
In this poem, the persona is the poet himself as a young child. He tells us that his elder
sister, Lulu, is (1) ____ . Actually she has run away, but when he asks his (2) ___ , she does not
tell him what has happened. He sees Lulu’s old (3) ___ on her bed and a (4) ___ by its side. Her
window is open and her (5) ___ is gone. When he asks his mother why she is (6) ___ and
burning a (7) ___ , she says that it is nothing. He is puzzled and asks her innocently what has
happened to Lulu, but she is silent. Then he tells her that he heard (8) ___ and a car late at
night, but she says that he must have been (9) ___. Next, he says that he heard somebody
crying in anger or in (10) ___, but she explains that it must have been the (11) ___ . He is
confused. He notices that his mother is confused too and wants to know what has happened to
his (12) ___.