Read the poem ‘The Curtain’ (2012) by Australian poet Judith Wright below. Then answer the questions opposite.

                                      The Curtain

1     It was the curtain, softly rising and falling, reminded me you were home, who had been so long away; and when I went to wake you, I stood in silence watching your mouth softened in sleep, the lids where your eyes lay. 5    So grown you looked, in the same unaltered room, so much of your childhood you were already forgetting, while I remembered. Yet in the unforgetting dream you will come here all your life for renewal and meeting. 9    It was your breath, so softly rising and falling, that kept me silent. With your lids like buds unbroken you watched on their curtain your life, a stream of shadows moving. When I touched your shoulder, I too had a little dreamed and woken.