"Mushrooms" - Questions and Analysis

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Please answer the following questions in COMPLETE SENTENCES with details from the poem to support your answers. Some of these questions are from the textbook, and others are not!

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1. How does the poet convey a mysterious tone in the poem? What words and phrases does she use? *

2a. What human qualities do the mushrooms have? *

2b. What does this description suggest to you about how the mushrooms grow? *

3a. What demands, if any, do the mushrooms make on their surroundings? *

3b. What can you conclude about the mushrooms' ability to survive? *

4a. How do the mushrooms overcome the obstacles in their way? *

4b. Why will this ability enable the mushrooms to "inherit the earth" (32)? *

5. Describe how mushrooms grow in nature and where you generally find them. Do you think this poem accurately portrays this? Why or why not? *

6. How does the speaker of the poem affect the way the mushrooms are described? How would the poem be different if mushrooms were described from an outsider's perspective? (Be specific - think about word choice, tone, and motives of the mushrooms, for example) *

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