English 8

Reading 4
Read the following and answer the Sharing Insights Questions

To Gadis
By Chairil Anwar

Amidst
The green leaves
The light and open fields,
Innocent children just able to crawl,
Sweet-sing birds,
the fresh, invigorating rain.
A young nation rises that cab just say "I"
And then
The crisp dry wind, the scorched earth,
The swirling sand blown back,
The evacuated land.
We are wedged in
And forced to shrink, grow small,
Able to move a step only now and then.
Let us free ourselves, our souls, become
A winging dove,
Fly
And know the fields without meeting and without
The consummation of flight
Sharing Insights
1. What could be the nation referred to in the seventh line? Why is that nation described as
one that can just say “I”?

ANSWER: because that nation is just a young and little like baby if we describe as
a people and I because as a young nation they want to notice like baby’s they
always want to do want elder’s do and they always say may ‘’I’’ so i think that why
they describe as one and they just can say is ‘’I’’

2. What action does the speaker in the poem suggest in the last stanza?

ANSWER: The speaker of the poem suggest that they know what’s going on
without a meetings or fulfillment

3. What relationship do you see between the longings of the average Filipino and those
expressed in the poem?

ANSWER:like what the poem say “forced to shrink, grow small,

Able to move a step only now and then.
Let us free ourselves, our souls, become
A winging dove,
Fly”
Like filipino they always want free and fly like a birds because of their pride

4. How can those longings be realized?

ANSWER: they can only achieve that by helping and understanding and through
them the country can rise.