Describe how the symbol of the carp is used by yun wang (in the poem "the carp") to illustrate the pain and injustice of her father's imprisonment.

The poem is dedicated to the author's father who was tortured and imprisoned during the Cultural Revolution. In the first stanza of the poem, the author describes how his father was a school principal and one day he caught a carp and everybody in the school tasted it. The poem emphasizes the importance in Chinese culture where it represents perseverance, luck, and success. Paradoxically, Wang writes that her son is named Carp and yet he died an early death. The carp also represents a loss of innocence  and the flawed nature of people with the lines "they had tasted the carp". This stanza shows how a good memory turned into a painful one. Once her father was imprisoned, it seemed like that was it. All his luck, and success over being the school principal are gone.

Explanation:

the correct answer would be d, i never like waking up.

explanation:

iambic tetrameter is a meter which is basically a line consisting of four feet of iambic and it is used in poetry. it consists of unstressed syllables followed by a stressed syllable. in this question, the only statement which is giving the feel of being stressed is option d, which says that i never like waking up. it means the person is feeling stressed whenever he wakes up. he never likes to wake up and and whenever he wakes up, he doesn't like it. so a sense or feel of being stressed is in this statement.  

b is the correct answer