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Heir Conditioning

1. What is the tone of the poem?


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2. Who is the persona in the second stanza?

 

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3. How does the poet view modernization?

 

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4. What can you infer from the line Grand child we lived before your age?

 

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5. Explain why “Grand child” would find it difficult to live without modern inventions.

 

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6. What is the poet’s main concern in the second stanza?

 

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7. What is the message that the poet wishes to express in this poem?

 

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8. List three things in the poem that indicate the negative effects of modernization?

 

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Answer the following questions based on the poem, Heir Conditioning.
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