The End and the Beginning by Wislawa Symborska

What is the significance of titling the poem "The End and The Beginning"?

• The devastation of the war leaves a “new beginning” for a town to be built.

• The end of a war often becomes the beginning of another one because people forget the effects.

• The end of a war must come before recovery can begin.

• When a war begins, an end must come with destruction.

• The end becomes the beginning of a story for poets such as Wislawa.

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What does the author attempt to point out in lines 18-21?

Photogenic it’s not,

and takes years.

All the cameras have left

for another war.

• People find small pleasures in war

• People rarely focus on the devastation of an area postwar

• The government tends to highlight the end of a war.

• Peace is not attainable after a country has been involved in war

• Recovering from war is an easy task

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What is the meaning of "dimension"

• a gesture of respect or polite recognition, especially one made to or by a person when arriving or departing.

• the ability to understand and share the feelings of another.

• a measurable extent of a particular kind, such as length, breadth, depth, or height

• an upright or sloping surface of a structure or object that is not the top or bottom and generally not the front or back.

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In the poem "The End and the Beginning" which words convey the hard work involved in "cleaning up" after a war?

• lift,sweep,throw

• push,mired,drag

• install,push,drag

• mired,lift,install

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What idea is conveyed by lines 37-42,

"Those who knew / What was going on here / must make way for / those who know little./ And less than little. / And finally as little as nothing" ?

• The horror of the war is gradually forgotten over time.

• After effects of the war can never be forgotten.

• One must not be cold to not talk and remember who died in the war

• The war makes you strong day-by-day and helps you overcome its pain with every day passing.

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