1. What is the contrasting picture that the poet creates in stanza one?
2. Why is the newspaper compared to a court?
3. How is the newspaper a game?
4. What do you think are the injustices a newspaper can do?
5. Metaphors are comparisons that show how two things that
are not alike in most ways are similar in one important way.
Unlike similes that use the words 'as' or 'like' to make a comparison,
metaphors state that something is something else.
This poem uses a number of metaphors, for example A newspaper
is a market. What does it sell?
Explain any four metaphors used in the poem.
6. Do you think the poem indicates the poet's disbelief about
this medium of communication? Give reasons.
7. If stephen crane were born in the 21st century ,would he still have found the same problems that he immortalized in the nineteenth century?
CHAPTER NAME - A NEWSPAPER IS A COLLECTION OF HALF INJUSTICES
Answers
Answer:
measage your book and tell which subject is this
Answer:
1)What is the contrasting picture that the poet creates in stanza one?
ans:In the first paragraph, the poet created the contrasting picture of merciful' as well as 'sneering men. These are people who either sneer at the stories carried by the newspaper or are sympathetic towards them.
2. Why is the newspaper compared to a court?
ans:A newspaper is like a court because everyone is kindly and unfairly tried by a group of honest men who are too caught up in their righteous indignation.
3. How is the newspaper a game?
ans:A newspaper is like a game because one person's error brings victory to a player. while another's skills wins death. A mistake made by a scribe can change the outcome of a particular game while another person's skilled reportage could herald somcone's
death.
4. What do you think are the injustices a newspaper can do?
ans:The poet calls a newspaper a collection of half-injustices because it is a collection of stories of injustice of everything that are lives are made of and it spreads its strange opinion to a million merciful and sneering men.
5) This Poem uses a number of metaphors, for example A newspaper is a market. What does it sell?
ans: Newspaper is a market because here the truth is sold and compromised for the selling of the newspaper.