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Skater
Ted Kooser
She was all in black but for a yellow pony tail
that trailed from her cap, and bright blue gloves
that she held out wide, the feathery fingers spread,
as surely she stepped, click-clack, onto the frozen
top of the world. And there, with a clatter of blades,
she began to braid a loose path that broadened
into a meadow of curls. Across the ice she swooped
and then turned back and,halfway, bent her legs
and leapt into the air the way a crane leaps, blue gloves
lifting her lightly, and turned a snappy half-turn
There in the wind before coming down, arms wide,
skating backward right out of that moment, smiling back
at the woman she'd been just an instant before.
Available Answers
- 1.
Read the poem and complete this summary.
She looked beautiful in her all- _____1_____ ensemble. A contrast was provided by her _____2_____ ponytail and her _____3_____ gloves. Her long, tapering fingers appeared to be like the _____4_____ of a bird in _____5_____. She stepped with confidence onto the _____6_____. First, she moved as if she was _____7_____ a braid and then made broad circular _____8_____. Suddenly, she swept majestically across the _____9_____, turned _____10_____, bent her _____11_____ and rose into the _____12_____. In a split _____13_____, after doing a _____14_____ she came down with her arms _____15_____ open.
- 2.
...she began to braid a loose path...
- What does the word 'braid' refer to here?
- How does the skater 'braid a loose path'?
- 3.
...broadened/ into a meadow of curls...
- What is a 'meadow of curls'?
- How did the 'loose path' broaden into a 'meadow'?
- 4.
...blue gloves/ lifting her lightly...
- Did her gloves actually aid in her leap?
- What does the poet wish to convey here?
- Why does the poet use the phrase 'lifting her lightly'?
- 5.
...smiling back/ at the woman she'd been just an instant before.
- What, according to you, had the skater been 'just an instant before'?
- Why does the skater smile at her own self?
- 6.
This poem may be termed a short, short story. Do you agree? Give reasons.
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22 Nov 2022Ruchi N.