A Tribute to New York - Navarra

Pilar Santos Tambo A Tribute to New York
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Read the poem aloud and discuss in groups the first ideas that come to your mind
concerning its meaning.
J. Look more closely at the following lines and choose the best answer:
a) What would you expect a poem entitled “Come and be my baby” to be
about?:
1. love
2. loneliness
3. something else: __________
b) “big cars going nowhere fast” is likely to mean:
1. the drivers do not know the way
2. the roads do not lead anywhere
3. the drivers are driving without a purpose
c) “folks is smoking anything that’ll burn” is likely to mean:
1. they will smoke anything that is inflammable
2. they smoke “grass”, marijuana
3. they smoke different kinds of tobacco leaves
d) “some people wrap their lives around a cocktail glass” is likely to mean:
1. only drinking makes life meaningful for them
2. they drink constantly
3. they like to have a cocktail glass in their hands
e) What type of life is the poem describing: __________
f) What do you understand then by the title of the poem: __________
32 For more information: http://www.mayaangelou.com/ and
http://www.webwedding.co.uk/articles/men/Speeches/poems/bemybaby.htm.
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