XAT 2022Verbal Ability & RCReading ComprehensionMEDIUM+1 / −0.25
Passage
Read the poem carefully, and answer the TWO questions that follow.
Comprehension:
It hurts to walk on new legs:
The curse of consonants. The wobble of vowels.
And you for whom I gave up a kingdom
Can never love that thing I was.
When you look into my past
You see
Only weeds and scales.
Once I had a voice.
Now I have legs.
Sometimes I wonder
Was it a fair trade?
What does the author BEST mean by “Once I had a voice. /Now I have legs?”
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