SECTION A: POETRY CAROL ANN DUFFY: from New Selected Poems Remember to support your ideas with details from the writing. Either 5 Read this poem, and then answer the question that follows it: Recognition Things get away from one. I've let myself go, I know. Children? I've had three and don't even know them. I strain to remember a time when my body felt lighter. Years. My face is swollen with regrets. I put powder on, but it flakes off. I love him, through habit, but the proof has evaporated. He gets upset. I tried to do all the essentials on one trip. Foolish, yes, but I was weepy all morning. Quiche. A blond boy swung me up in his arms and promised the earth. You see, this came back to me as I stood on the scales. I wept. Shallots. In the window, creamy ladies held a pose which left me clogged and old. The waste. I'd forgotten my purse, fumbled; the shopgirl gaped at me, compassionless. Claret. I blushed. Cheese. Kleenex. It did happen. I lay in my slip on wet grass, laughing. Years. I had to rush out, blind in a hot flush, and bumped into an anxious, dowdy matron who touched the cold mirror and stared at me. Stared and said I'm sorry sorry sorry.