PLZ HELP ILL GIVE 50 POINTS ASAP What do you think is the significance or the meaning of the title, and how does it connect to the content of the poem? Be sure to cite textual evidence to help explain your answer.

Every time I open my mouth my teeth reveal
more than I mean to. I can’t stop tonguing them, my teeth.
Almost giddy to know they’re still there (my mother lost hers)
but I am embarrassed nonetheless that even they aren’t
pretty. Still, I did once like my voice, the way it moved
through the gap in my teeth like birdsong in the morning,
like the slow swirl of a creek at dusk. Just yesterday
a woman closed her eyes as I read aloud, and
said she wanted to sleep in the sound of it, my voice.
I can still sing some. Early cancer didn’t stop the compulsion
to sing but
there’s gravel now. An undercurrent
that also reveals me. Time and disaster. A heavy landslide
down the mountain. When you stopped speaking to me
what you really wanted was for me to stop speaking to you. To
stifle the sound of my voice. I know.
Didn’t want the quicksilver of it in your ear.
What does it mean
to silence another? It means I ruminate on the hit
of rain against the tin roof of childhood, how I could listen
all day until the water rusted its way in. And there I was
putting a pan over here and a pot over there to catch it.

The significance of the title "Given to Rust" is it shows how the narrator feels about what her life has come to. The narrator says "Time and Disaster. A heavy landslide," they also mention "early cancer". The word rust represents all the bad that has happened to the narrator and how she was given over to the cancer and time and given over to a life in bed not going and having fun. It is, however, important to note that the narrator's entire identity was not given over to bad things in life because they can still sing although their voice is not the same as before. "Given to Rust" connects to the context of the poem because the narrator has been taken over and redefined by what obstacles life has given her.

Explanation:

I answered this question based on a title I found online which is Given to Rust. I did the best I could, but I would suggest changing it a little bit and trying to do it on your own! This is just an example and a representation of my ideas. What are yours?

she was killed in her home during hurricane katrina. b.she was relocated to another town after hurricane katrina. c.she died trying to get victims of the hurricane to safety. d.she is still missing — police do not know where she is.

his tongue, i believe, was bloody and hanging out of his mouth.

he looked as if he were hungry.

he has several wolf-like qualities; a gray coat, sharp claws and yellow fangs.

those eyes made me feel, dear reader, like the end was near.

as i reached for a stick, he moved to the other side of the hill.

panting and hungry, he looked at me, a defenseless human and he snarled.

well i said my prayers, however, he simply turned and limped off.