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प्रश्न
The theme of Maya Angelou’s poem ‘When Great Trees Fall’ is ______.
पर्याय
the impact of the death of a loved one on those left behind
the effect of felling trees on the environment
how the death of trees affects humanity
the impact of natural calamities on a forest
उत्तर
The theme of Maya Angelou’s poem ‘When Great Trees Fall’ is the impact of the death of a loved one on those left behind.
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Then there it lay in her wet palm, perfect, even pierced ready for use, with the sunset shuffled about inside it like gold—?dust. All her heart went up in flames of joy. After a bit she twisted it into the top of her skirt against her tummy so she would know if it burst through the poor cloth and fell. Then she picked up her fork and sickle and the heavy grass and set off home. Ai! Ai! What a day! Her barefeet smudged out the wriggle— ?mark of snakes in the dust; there was the thin singing of malaria mosquitoes among the trees now; and this track was much used at night by a morose old makna elephant—the Tuskless One; but Sibia was not thinking of any of them. The stars came out: she did not notice. On the way back she met her mother, out of breath, come to look for her, and scolding. “I did not see till I was home, that you were not there. I thought something must have happened to you.” And Sibia, bursting with her story, cried “Something did). I found a blue bead for my necklace, look!”
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