Question

Part A

What is a theme of the poem "The Dragonfly"?

Dragonflies live a humorous life.

We are not bound to earth.

Life is short and fleeting.

Life is meant to be enjoyed.

Question 2

Part B

How does Louise Bogan develop the theme identified in Part A?

She compares the dragonfly to a rocket.

She explains how the dragonfly easily hides in shadow.

She describes how the dragonfly dies at the end of summer.

She explains that the dragonfly is always in motion.

You are made of almost nothing
But of enough
To be great eyes
And diaphanous double vans;
To be ceaseless movement,
Unending hunger,
Grappling love.

Link between water and air,
Earth repels you.
Light touches you only to shift into iridescence
Upon your body and wings.

Twice-born, predator,
You split into the heat.
Swift beyond calculation or capture
You dart into the shadow
Which consumes you.

You rocket into the day.
But at last, when the wind flattens the grasses,
For you, the design and purpose stop.

And you fall
With the other husks of summer.

Answer 1

Part A: Life is short and fleeting.

Part B: She describes how the dragonfly dies at the end of summer.

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Answer 2

Answer: I believe it would 3) life is short and fleeting she seems to capture this showing how the dragonfly is in constant motion i could be wrong but the evidence is supportive of it and how the dragon does pass at the end i think the final answer in part a it's Life is short and fleeting and part B is The dragonfly dies at the end of summer

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