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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.
The poet’s reflections in the poem show that
- A humanity needs to be more generous.
- B the giver and the receiver are both adrift.
- C praying is necessary in order to give justly.
- D giving is a simple act of love and generosity.
- E the giver blesses heaven for his understanding.