A Mother in a Refugee Camp
No Madonna and Child could touch
Her tenderness for a son
She soon would have to forget. . . .
The air was heavy with odors of diarrhea,
Of unwashed children with washed-out ribs
And dried-up bottoms waddling in labored steps
Behind blown-empty bellies. Other mothers there
Had long ceased to care, but not this one:
She held a ghost-smile between her teeth,
And in her eyes the memory
Of a mother’s pride. . . . She had bathed him
And rubbed him down with bare palms.
She took from their bundle of possessions
A broken comb and combed
The rust-colored hair left on his skull
And then—humming in her eyes—began carefully to part it.
In their former life this was perhaps
A little daily act of no consequence
Before his breakfast and school; now she did it
Like putting flowers on a tiny grave.
ACHEBE, C. Collected Poems. New Yorrk: Anchor Books, 2004.
O escritor nigeriano Chinua Achebe traz uma reflexão
sobre a situação dos refugiados em um cenário pós-guerra
civil em seu pais. Essa reflexão é construída no poema
por meio da representação de uma mãe, explorando a(s)
a) demonstração de orgulho por não precisar pedir
doações.
b) descrições artísticas detalhadas de uma obra
conhecida.
c) aceitação de um diagnóstico de doença terminal do
filho.
d) consternação ao visitar o túmulo do filho recém-falecido.
e) impressões sensoriais experimentadas no ambiente.
RESPOSTA:
Letra E.
A situação dos refugiados é construída a partir de
sensoriais presentes nos versos do poema, tais como:
“The air was heavy with odors of diarrhea,
Behind blown-empty bellies...
The rust-colored hair ieft on his skull”
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