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The giver (for Berdis) by James Baldwin
1 If the hope of giving
2 is to love the living,
3 the giver risks madness
4 in the act of giving.
5 Some such lesson I seemed to see
6 in the faces that surrounded me.
7 Needy and blind, unhopeful, unlifted,
8 what gift would give them the gift to be gifted?
9 The giver is no less adrift
10 than those who are clamouring for the gift.
11 If they cannot claim it, if it is not there,
12 if their empty fingers beat the empty air
13 and the giver goes down on his knees in prayer
14 knows that all of his giving has been for naught
15 and that nothing was ever what he thought
16 and turns in his guilty bed to stare
17 at the starving multitudes standing there
18 and rises from bed to curse at heaven,
19 he must yet understand that to whom much is given
20 much will be taken, and justly so:
21 I cannot tell how much I owe.
Considering the linguistics aspects present in the poem,
- A the words gift, in line 8, have the same meaning as the word needy, in line 7.
- B the adjectives in line 7 refer to the person who is offering gifts to the receiver.
- C the verbs in line 17 indicate an action that is happening at the present moment.
- D the repetition of the word if, in lines 1,11 and 12, emphasizes the idea of certainty.
- E nothing and naught, in lines 14 and 15, can be synonyms and show negativeness.