PART A: How does the poet's description of the weed contribute to the meaning of the poem?

A) It emphasizes the wild nature of the weed, which shows the thrill of uncontrolled freedom.

B) It portrays the weed as dangerous to the other flowers, which explains why the weed is isolated.

C) It portrays the weed as angry that it is unwanted, and this emphasizes the pain of isolation.

D) It presents the weed as quietly beautiful, and this challenges traditional ideas of beauty.

PART B: Which section from the poem best supports the answer to Part A? answer choicesA) "but harnessed to a pot of dirt." B) "to live, to feel exposed to the madness" C) "I'd rather be unseen" D) "growing in clusters in the fertile valley"

The answer of part A is letter A.

The answer of part B is letter B.

Explanation:

Because this poem is about the individuality and the freedom that comes with retaining one's own personal identity. Julio Noboa works with a metaphor, to imagine himself as a weed. And the weed will never be like the flowers, the weed, like himself, will be ugly, but able to reach places that the flowers would never be.

He claims that those who are like flowers are circumscribed by the rules of a constraining society. In the other hand, those, like himself, who are like weed, might be seen as ugly and smelly, however, they are singular individuals and they retain their own particularities and individual freedoms. They are society values free people. Living and making their own rules.