Mini-Quiz

Choose the most effective in-text citation evidence sentence:

• In line 9, the fork becomes "large, bald, beakless, and blind."
• By the last line, the fork transforms into a man's fist, "...bald, beakless, and blind," which signifies man's powerlessness (9).
• In the final line, the fork becomes a man's fist, signifying the tone in the image of him being "large, bald, beakless, and blind" (9).

Choose the most effective thematic statement sentence:

• The poem is about man's connection with nature.
• "Fork" symbolizes man's ineptitude through images.
• "Fork" symbolizes humanity's own limits of power through images that mock it. 

Choose the most effective reasoning sentence:

• There are several transformations that get more and more absurd as the poem continues.
• There are images in the poem that give the reader the poet's tone and theme.
• The poet includes many images that illustrate how the fork transforms into a fist.