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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)







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)

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