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 Touch by High Lewin. When I get out I'm going to ask someone To touch me Very gently please And slowly Touch me I want To learn again How life feels. I've not been touched  For seven years for seven years I've been untouched out of touch and I've learnt to know now the meaning of untouchable.Untouched - not quite I can count the things that have touched me.One: fists At the beginning fierce mad fists beating beating till I remember screaming don't touch me please don't touch me.Two: paws The first four years of paws everyday patting paws, searching - arms up, shoes off legs apart prodding paws, systematic heavy, indifferent probing away all privacy. I don't want fists and paws I want to want to be touched again and to touch  I want feel alive again I want to say when I get out Here I am please touch me.(From poets to the people, edited by Barry Feinberg) a) Where do you think the persona is? Briefly explain your answer (3mks)

b) What do you think the persona means by "touch"? (3 marks)

c) Using two illustrations, describe the persona's experience during the seven years. (4 marks)                                            d) What is the significance of the word "paws"? (2 marks)

e) Which device does the poet use to reinforce the theme? (2 marks)

f) Explain the meaning of the following words as they are used in the poem: 

(2 marks)

g) What does the poem reveal about human need?

12. My little sister likes to try my shoes,to strut in them admire her spindle- thin twelve- year old legs In this season's styles. She says they fit perfectly, But wobbles On their high heels, they're hard to balance I like to watch my little sister playing hopscotch, admire the neat hops-and -skips of her, their quick peck, never missing their mark, not over-stepping the line She is competent at peever.I try to warn my little sister about unsuitable shoes,Point out my own distorted feet, the callouses,Odd patches of hard skin.I should not like to see her In my shoes I wish she would stay Sure footed Sensible shod (By Liz Lochhead in poem 1, ed. Celeste flower. Singapore: Longman, 1995.)

a) Why does the little sister try the persona's shoes? (3mks) b) How do we know from the first stanza that the shoes don't fit? (1mk)

c) Why does the persona like watching her younger sister play hopscotch? 

(4mks)

d) In the third stanza, the persona gives us new reasons why her little sister should  not wear her shoes. What are these reasons? (2mks)

e) What is the message of this poem? (5mks)

f) Describe the tone of the poem? (3mks)

g) Explain the meaning of the following lines; I should not like to see her in my 

shoes