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From the poem below Identify what you have chosen as a symbol or an image. Explain how the symbol or image affects you as a reader.

The first horn lifts its arm over the dew-lit grass and in the slave quarters there is a rustling- children are bundled into aprons, cornbread
and water gourds grabbed, a salt pork breakfast taken.

I watch them driven into the vague before-dawn while their mistress sleeps like an ivory toothpick and Massa dreams of asses, rum and slave-funk.

I cannot fall asleep again. At the second horn, the whip curls across the backs of the laggards- sometimes my sister's voice, unmistaken, among them.

"Oh! pray," she cries. "Oh! pray!" Those days I lie on my cot, shivering in the early heat, and as the fields unfold to whiteness, and they spill like bees among the fat flowers, I weep. It is not yet daylight.