(AFA - 2023)Directions: Read Text V and answer que

(AFA - 2023)

 

Directions: Read Text V and answer questions 09, 10 and 11 accordingly.

 

TEXT IV

	I know I shall meet my fate
	Somewhere among the clouds above;
	Those that I fight I do not hate,
	Those that I guard I do not love;
5	My country is Kiltartan Cross,
	My countrymen Kiltartan’s poor,
	No likely end could bring them loss
	Or leave them happier than before.
	Nor law, nor duty bade1 me fight,
10	Nor public men, nor cheering crowds,
	A lonely impulse of delight
	Drove to this tumult in the clouds;
	I balanced all, brought all to mind,
	The years to come seemed waste of breath,
15	A waste of breath the years behind
	In balance with this life, this death.

 

(YEATS, W.B. An Irish Airman Foresees His Death in Rhyme and Reason, An Anthology. Org. O’MALLEY, Raymond. HartDavis Educational.)

 

Vocabulary:

1. Bid (bade, bidden): to tell somebody to do something.

 

TEXT V

	Oh, I’ve just come from the land of the sun
	From a war that must be won
	In the name of truth
	With our soldiers so brave
5	Your freedom we will save
	With our rifles and grenades
	And some help from God
	I want to see my family
	My wife and child waiting for me
10	I’ve got to go home
	I’ve been so alone you see
	You just can’t believe
	The joy I did receive
	When I finally got my leave
15	And I was going home
	Oh, I flew through the sky
	My convictions could not lie
	For my country I would die
	And I will see it soon
20	When I walked through the door
	My wife she laid upon the floor
	And with tears her eyes were sore
	I did not know why
	Then I looked into her hand
25	And I saw the telegram
	Said that I was a brave, brave man
	But that I was dead

 

(SUMMER, Bernard; GILBERT, Gillian; HOOK, Peter; MORRIS, Stephen. Lyrics to Love Vigilantes, performed by New Order, Low Life CD, track 1, Universal Music Publishing Group, 1986. Taken from https://lyricfind.com)

 

 

Whose characteristic is described below? Write 4 for the speaker in Text IV, and 5 for the speaker in Text V.

 

(  ) He is driven by a patriotic fervor.

(  ) He is fighting because he cares who wins.

(  ) He is believed to have been killed in action.

(  ) Nothing else in his life seems worth pursuing.

(  ) He considers aspects of his past, present and future.

 

Now, mark the correct option.