Multiple choice

Clusters

Directions: Some words in the verse below have been highlighted. Select the best meaning for the corresponding word.

Today the world is a little more my own.
No need to remember the pain
A blue frocked woman caused,
Throwing words at me like pots and pans, to drain
That honey-coloured day of peace,
"why don't you join the others,
what a peculiar child you are?”

 On the lawn, in clusters, sat my schoolmates sipping
Sugarcane, they turned and laughed;
Children are funny things, they laugh
In mirth at other's tears, I buried
 My face in the sun-warmed hedge
And smelt the flowers and the pain
The words are muffled now; the laughing faces only a blur.
The years have sped along, stopping briefly
at beloved halts and moving sadly on.
My mind has found an adult peace
No need to remember
That picnic day when I lay hidden
By the hedge, watching steel white sun
Standing lonely in the sky.

 

  1. Groups

  2. Heaps

  3. Crowds

  4. Knots
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Explanation

The poem describes 'On the lawn, in clusters, sat my schoolmates sipping Sugarcane' - this means the children were sitting together in small groups. 'Groups' is the most natural way to describe people clustered together socially. 'Heaps' implies objects piled up, 'Crowds' suggests too many people packed tightly, and 'Knots' doesn't fit the social context.

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