They were women then my mama’s generation husky of voice—stout of step with fists as well as hands how they battered down doors and ironed starched white shirts how they led armies headragged generals across mined fields to discover books desks a place for us how they knew what we must know without knowing a page of it themselves. read these lines from the poem and answer the question. without knowing a page of it themselves. how does the poet use the word “page” in these lines? connotatively, to suggest a type of life experience denotatively, to indicate the parts of a book hypothetically, to show there are many parts in books critically, to reveal the importance of experience in life