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Activity 2 Examining socio-political, economic and cultural
issues portrayed in selected poems and plays

FOR ONLINE READING ONLY
(a) Read a selected poem and answer the following questions.

1. Identify the economic activities portrayed in the poem.
2. Comment on the cultural activities portrayed in the poem.
3. What social activities are depicted in the poem? How did you know?
4. What political activities are portrayed in the poem? Support your answer
with textual evidence.
5. How do the persona’s actions shape his/her feelings, goals, actions and
beliefs?
6. Study the following table. The first column lists issues or activities
depicted in the poem. Complete the table by providing textual examples
for each issue/activity:

Issue/Activity Textual evidence

(i) Political

(ii) Economic

(iii) Social

(iv) Cultural

(b) Read a selected play and answer the following questions.

1. What type of economic activities are reflected in the play?
2. What cultural practices are represented in the play?
3. Which aspects of social life are highlighted in the play, and how are
they portrayed?
4. What political activities are the characters involved in the play?
5. In what ways do the characters’ actions in the play affect their
feelings, thoughts, goals, actions and beliefs?

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