Questão 753711

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 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,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 behindA 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. HartDavis Educational.)

Vocabulary:

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

In Text IV, the following phrase refers to dying: