Questão 1107612

Read Text V and answer the six questions that follow it:

Text V

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Lineage

By Margaret Walker

My grandmothers were strong.

They followed plows and bent to toil.

They moved through fields sowing seed.

They touched earth and grain grew.

They were full of sturdiness and singing.

My grandmothers were strong.

My grandmothers are full of memories

Smelling of soap and onions and wet clay

With veins rolling roughly over quick hands

They have many clean words to say.

My grandmothers were strong.

Why am I not as they?

From: https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/53463/lineage

The last line of the poem reveals the poet’s