1. Explain ice block cold eyes.
2. identify its figure of speech.
3. Why does the poet want to relearn how to laugh?
4. What is meant by 'search behind my shadow'?
5. What kind of spirit does the poet have?
6. Why do they search?
7. What do the words 'to wear many faces' stand for?
8. What is meant by "muting things"?
9. What is the meaning of 'unlearn'?
10.Identify the figure of speech in 'feel at home!'
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Answer:
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Explanation:
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Answer:
1.The phrase is used when the author says "while their ice-block-cold eyes search behind my shadow", which means that the person who is laughing with his/her eyes as cold and as solid as ice without any emotions and happiness, while they look right past him without paying any attention to him
2.The correct answer is - Metaphor. The phrase "ice block cold eyes" has been used as a metaphor in the poem, Once upon a time, written by Gabriel Okara.
3.The poet has forgotten to laugh naturally. He wants to relearn to laugh because his laugh in front of the mirror shows his teeth like a snake's bare fangs
4.Search behind one's shadow means that people have a habit of accepting shadows rather than accepting real people. By accepting and loving the shadows they will not be in any kind of trouble as long as shadows are not harmful.
5. The poet has limp and bashful spirit which feeds on other people's heroic deeds.
7.The father has learnt to wear many faces. This means that he has learned to act or behave according to the need of each situation, and not according to his own natural feeling. ... The father has also learnt to say things which are the exact opposite of his real feelings and of what is in his heart.
8.Muting things are; superficial and unnatural behaviours like portrait smiles and heartless handshake.
9. 1 : to put out of one's knowledge or memory. 2 : to undo the effect of : discard the habit of.
10. irony
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