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In a paragraph of 100 to 150 words, compare and contrast the images you visualized while reading the poem with those that you observed in the video. How are the two interpretations similar and how are they different? Be sure to use details from the poem and the video to support your answer.

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Answer: In some ways the video version of the poem was surprisingly similar to how I had visualized it in my head. I could see a child watching over a nest of birds in a field. I could also picture an adult working with the child to save them. I did not imagine the father in a wheelchair. I was also surprised to see the images of soldiers in the video. In my interpretation of the poem, two people tried to save the baby birds. They worried about whether they were helping the birds or harming them: "And might our meddling make her more afraid." In the video interpretation, the father, like the birds, narrowly escaped death. The video interprets the poem as a metaphor for war.

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