Questão de Língua Inglesa · FGV SECAD-TO Edital 01 2023 (nº 33)

Text III

Alice Walker (born February 9, 1944), an American novelist, short story writer, poet, and social activist.

We Alone

We alone can devalue gold
by not caring
if it falls or rises
in the marketplace.

Wherever there is gold
there is a chain, you know,
and if your chain
is gold
so much the worse
for you.

Feathers, shells
and sea-shaped stones
are all as rare.

This could be our revolution:
to love what is plentiful
as much as
what's scarce.

From: https://www.poetrysoup.com/famous/poem/we_alone_23191

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In this poem, the poet proposes that we have the power to change the way we