Tuesday, February 16, 2016

Juicy Red Tomato

I'm a juicy red tomato
and I've tumbled off the shelf
and I'm rolling out the co-op door
to the street, all by myself.
I've left the other fruit behind            5
but I feel no remorse.
There's more to life than waiting
to be blended into sauce
or chopped up for a pizza
or sliced to serve with ham                 10
or just sitting, going mouldy
fifty cents a kilogram.

No, no! Heigh ho for the open road
and the footpath, wild and free!
Where feet pass by                              15
'neath an open sky
and there are no other veggies but me!
You won't catch me in your casserole
or your pyrex baking dish.
I'm the vagabond tomato and Im...    20
gurgle
gurgle
squish
by Fiona Farrell
Source: School Journal, Part 2, No. 4,
Learning Media Limited, 1993.
Song of the Vagabond Tomato
This task is about making inferences from a poem.
Read the poem and look at its illustration to answer the questions below.
a)   What is the meaning of the word "vagabond" from the title of the poem and line 20?
     (A)   A brand of tomatoes
     (B)   A careless character.
     (C)   A wandering rascal
     (D)   A scruffy character
b)   What does the tomato mean when he says, "I feel no remorse"? [line 6]
I think the tomato means he feels a little bit guilty for leaving his friends behind and escaping.
c)   Why do the tomatoes talked about in this poem end up costing "fifty cents a kilogram"? [line 12] The tomato talks about how the tomato feels lonely and because of it he thinks him and some of his friends will be worth 50 cents a kilo.   
d)   When the tomato says, "No, no!" what is he talking about? [line 13]
      When the tomato runs away he feels so free that he does not want to go back.
e)   What word is "'neath" short for? [line 16]
Maybe the tomato is trying to say something like beneath the open sky.
f)   What do the dots at the end of line 20 show?
It is an ellipsis, I think it means when there is something coming but you don’t want to say it yet, it is pretty much a pause it works kinda like a comma.   

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