Consider the following lines from the poem, The Bright Lights of Sarajevo :

‘The dark boy-shape leads dark-girl shape away
to share one coffee in a candlelit café
until the curfew, and he holds her hand
behind AID flour-sacks refilled with sand.’ (lines 43 - 46)

What is significant about the last two lines of the extract?
Select TWO or more valid interpretations.

Question

Consider the following lines from the poem,  The Bright Lights of Sarajevo : 
 
     ‘The dark boy-shape leads dark-girl shape away 
 to share one coffee in a candlelit café 
 until the curfew, and he holds her hand 
 behind AID flour-sacks refilled with sand.’  (lines 43 - 46)

What is significant about the last two lines of the extract?  
 Select TWO or more valid interpretations.

Answer

The harmony of the hand-holding lovers is juxtaposed against the disharmony of the flour sacks refilled with sand.

Answer

The universal experience of love becomes normalised for the characters in the unnormal context of war.

Answer

A sense of hope is inspired by the unity of the lovers in a climate of disunity in war-ravaged Sarajevo.

Answer

The ‘flour-sacks refilled with sand’ represents the depletion of resources in war-torn Sarajevo.

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