Wherefore feed and clothe and save
From the cradle to the grave
Those ungrateful drones who would
Drain your sweat—nay, drink your blood
Questions:
A. Who wrote the poem What’s its name
B. Explain "drones. "
C. Interpret the passage.
参考答案:A. Shelley; A Song: Men of England.
B. The male of the honey-bees that don’t work, referring here to the parasitic class in human society.
C. The poet called all working people to rise up against their political oppressors, but pointed out to them the intolerable injustice of economic exploitation. It expressed the love for freedom and the hatred to tyranny of the author.