Grand dad did you breathe before air cons were invented was it hard staying alive without modern invention? Grandma werent you flustered as you fluttered with paper fans? Could you communicate before faxes and long distance calls became basic necessities?
Grandchild we lived before your age. Because of our ignorance, we did not know pollution, stress, traffic jams destructions of forests, stream and hills we feared God and nature now nature fears you and money is your new God.
1. Who are the personas in the poem? (2 marks)
2. What is the significance of the title Heir Conditioning? (2 marks)
3. How does the persona in the second stanza look upon modernization and technological advances? Explain. (4 marks) 4. What does the following lines below mean? Explain.
now nature fears you and money is your new god. (4 marks)
5. State one (1) intended theme that can be derived from this poem. Elaborate. (4 marks)
6. There are two (2) different tones in the poem. Discuss them in relation to the voices in the poem. (4 marks)
CLS2113/MLYN LIT/TST 1/THINA/2/13/34
CLS2113 MALAYSIAN LITERATURE TEST (20%) NAME: MATRIC NO:
Heir Conditioning By M Shanmughalingam
Grand dad did you breathe before air cons were invented was it hard staying alive without modern invention? Grandma werent you flustered as you fluttered with paper fans? Could you communicate before faxes and long distance calls became basic necessities?
Grandchild we lived before your age. Because of our ignorance, we did not know pollution, stress, traffic jams destructions of forests, stream and hills we feared God and nature now nature fears you and money is your new God.
1. Who are the personas in the poem? (2 marks)
2. What is the significance of the title Heir Conditioning? (2 marks)
3. How does the persona in the second stanza look upon modernization and technological advances? Explain. (4 marks) 4. What does the following lines below mean? Explain.
now nature fears you and money is your new god. (4 marks)
5. State one (1) intended theme that can be derived from this poem. Elaborate. (4 marks)
6. There are two (2) different tones in the poem. Discuss them in relation to the voices in the poem. (4 marks)