Read the following passage and answer the question.
"this clumsy living that moves lumbering as if in ropes through what is not done reminds us of the awkward way the swan walks."
describe the meaning of this quote in at least 150 words. use examples from the text to support your ideas.

This is just my interpretation, but it seems to me that the first stanza is saying that life is not our most natural state of being -it is awkward and uncomfortable, and we sort of stumble through it by necessity, much as a swan on land. However, when we die (the remainder of the poem) we are in our element, as when the swan hits the water. Then we are free and fluid, released from the necessary burdens of life. I think this poet must have strong religious beliefs. At least, that's what I gather from it.

This poem was about how when a swan gets out the water it has a hard time walking on land. But when the swan gets in the water it is easier for them to walk and swim freely. It basically describes how a swan experiences on land and in its natural home, in the water. In my own thinking I believe that this poem refers to the human life. It tells a story how our life compares to a swan. Such as when a swan is on land it has trouble walking and in life we stumble at times but we get back up on our feet and continue to walk. When the swan goes into the water it's free like when we die we are free as well. We let go of the pain that we carry every minute of our lifes and we are just free and happy.

below i present a summary with the most relevant aspects of chapter 2, which were taken from karangan bahasa inggeris (english essays) spm: argumentative essays.

tuna wira

credit to mohana ram murugiah.

i hope to be of

teacher smiles at the students who wait for his signal to sit down. he nods briefly and the students sit down and get ready for the lesson to start. there is an air of quiet expectancy when teacher refers to the unusual things found underneath their houses that morning. whispers of bags of rice ran among the students and a student muttered reluctantly that the rice is rent for the landlord. this starts off the discussion on the issue of paying rent for the use of the landowner’s land. da wan raises the question of why the landlord owns the land rather than the farmer although they have spent a lot of time farming it. the three reasons of labour, need and inheritance are listed as reasons for the landlord’s ownership of the land. they are discussed and dismissed as inadequate reasons. they suggested a system of collective farming to the farmers. the headmaster comes down the corridor to observe the lesson. teacher very quickly changed the lesson to a geography wesson. the students followed his cue and no one gave the slightest notice < of the headmaster ‘s presence. when the headmaster leaves, teacher explains the implications of winning the scholarship. it involves bearing respontsibilities and the scholarship holder should master what is useful and return to the village. he should understand the injustices in the present system and change it to a fairer system. then, he announces the wiimnuir of the scholarship to be dawan.

which is a characteristic of dramatic point of view? it allows the audience to get deep inside a character's head. it often uses the pronouns i and me. it more easily allows the audience to make up their own minds about characters.