Questão 2497992

Directions: Read Text IV and answer questions 06, 07 and 08 accordingly.

___________TEXT IV

_____I know I shall meet my fate

_____Somewhere among the clouds above;

_____Those that I fight I do not hate,

_____Those that I guard I do not love;

5____My country is Kiltartan Cross,

_____My countrymen Kiltartan’s poor,

_____No likely end could bring them loss

_____Or leave them happier than before.

_____Nor law, nor duty bade1 me fight,

10___-Nor public men, nor cheering crowds,

_____A lonely impulse of delight

_____Drove to this tumult in the clouds;

_____I balanced all, brought all to mind,

_____The years to come seemed waste of breath,

15___-A waste of breath the years behind

_____In balance with this life, this death.

(YEATS, W.B. An Irish Airman Foresees His Death in Rhyme and Reason, An Anthology. Org. O’MALLEY, Raymond. Hart- Davis Educational.)

Vocabulary:

1. Bid (bade, bidden): to tell somebody to do something.

In Text IV, the following phrase refers to dying: