Understand the poem
1.) Pick out two phrases from line 1 which suggest the final moments for the launch of the rocket.
Answer: Count Down and last look
2.) With what feelings is the speaker flying out of the earth?
a) despair
b) lack of confidence
c) apprehension
d) doubt about his return to the earth
e) ………………………………………………….
Choose your response from the ones given above or give your own.
Say which line or lines in the first stanza support your response.
Answer: You can start the Count Down; you can take a last look;
3.) State the reason for the poet to say “calendars and clocks” are useless in space ( stanza 2 )
Answer: Since there is no change in the atmosphere and no track of time, so the poet says that the calendars and clocks are useless in space.
4.) The expression “winter under lock,” means, that in space,
a) there is no change of seasons.