Question

1) Answer the following questions

a) What does the poet say about the following?
i) keeping your head
ii) lies
iii) hate

b) List the qualities which 'make a Man', according to the poet .

c) Why does the poet call 'Triumph' and 'Disaster' imposter ?

d) What does the poet mean when he says we should treat Triumph and Disaster 'just the same'?​

Answer 1

1. This debt we pay to human guile; With torn and bleeding hearts we smile, Line 3 tells us that the people wearing these masks owe it all to "human guile." Fancy word check: "guile" simply means a sort of deceitfulness, not being real. ... And we understand the metaphor even more when we consider the imagery of a mask.