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Direction: Read text IV to answer questions 13 to 16.
TEXT IV
Rocket Man
My father was a rocket man
He often went to Jupiter or Mercury, to Venus or to Mars
My mother and I would watch the sky
And wonder if a falling star
5 Was a ship becoming ashes with a rocket man inside
My mother and I
Never went out
Unless the sky was cloudy or the sun was blotted out
10 Or to escape the pain
We only went out when it rained
My father was a rocket man
He loved the world beyond the world, the sky beyond
15 the sky
And on my mother's face, as lonely as the world in
space
I could read the silent cry
That if my father fell into a star
20 We must not look upon that star again
Tears are often jewel-like
My mother's went unnoticed by my father, for his jewels
were the stars
25 And in my father's eyes I knew he had to find
In the sanctity of distance something brighter than a star
One day they told us the sun had flared and taken him
inside
Adapted from: ROCKET man. Interpreter: Pearls Before Swine. Songwriter: Tom Rapp. In THE USE of Ashes. Interpreter: Pearls Before Swine. Florida: Editor Ogmios, 1970. (03:06). Available on: https://www.vagalume.com.br/pearls-before-swine/rocket-man.html. Accessed on March 17th, 2025.
It’s NOT possible to infer that the rocket man
Direction: Read text IV to answer questions 13 to 16.
TEXT IV
Rocket Man
My father was a rocket man
He often went to Jupiter or Mercury, to Venus or to Mars
My mother and I would watch the sky
And wonder if a falling star
5 Was a ship becoming ashes with a rocket man inside
My mother and I
Never went out
Unless the sky was cloudy or the sun was blotted out
10 Or to escape the pain
We only went out when it rained
My father was a rocket man
He loved the world beyond the world, the sky beyond
15 the sky
And on my mother's face, as lonely as the world in
space
I could read the silent cry
That if my father fell into a star
20 We must not look upon that star again
Tears are often jewel-like
My mother's went unnoticed by my father, for his jewels
were the stars
25 And in my father's eyes I knew he had to find
In the sanctity of distance something brighter than a star
One day they told us the sun had flared and taken him
inside
Adapted from: ROCKET man. Interpreter: Pearls Before Swine. Songwriter: Tom Rapp. In THE USE of Ashes. Interpreter: Pearls Before Swine. Florida: Editor Ogmios, 1970. (03:06). Available on: https://www.vagalume.com.br/pearls-before-swine/rocket-man.html. Accessed on March 17th, 2025.
It’s NOT possible to infer that the rocket man
Resolução comentada
Não se infere que a família se importasse menos com ele com o passar do tempo.
O poema mostra que a mãe sofria em silêncio ('silent cry') e que a família evitava olhar a estrela onde o pai caiu, sinal de dor, não de indiferença. Já se infere que o pai morreu, que não se realizava na Terra e que ignorava as lágrimas da mãe.
Análise das alternativas
A) Inferível: o sol o levou ('taken him inside'). B) Inferível: ele buscava algo além do mundo. C) Inferível: as lágrimas da mãe passaram despercebidas por ele.
Referência: Rocket Man, estrofes 3 e 4.
Resolução comentada do VaiConcursos.