This question is based on THE SONG OF THE WOMEN OF MY LAND.
Use the excerpt to answer this question
“they sang in the forlorn fields
about their lives; songs
of how they ploughed the terrain of their landscape
for memories of lyrics lost in the vast void of time,
in those days when a song beheld their lives;
when servitude cuffed the ankles of their soul,
and dereliction decapitated the epic of their lives.”
The theme of this excerpt is____
- All of the above
-
the oppression of women
- Joys of motherhood
- colonization
The correct answer is: B
Explanation
The theme of the excerpt is the oppression of women. The excerpt talks about how the women sang about their lives, how they worked hard (ploughed the terrain of their landscape), and how they were in servitude (servitude cuffed the ankles of their soul). This suggests that they were oppressed.
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