Question

7 From the patriot chapter Read the extract given below and answer the questions that follow: Thus I entered, and thus I go! In triumphs, people have dropped down dead. “Paid by the world, what dost thou owe Me?”—God might question; now instead, ’Tis God shall repay: I am safer so. (i) What does the speaker says in the first and second line of the stanzas? [3] (ii) Explain?” In triumphs, people have dropped down dead.” [3] (iii) “I am safer so”. What irony is involved here? [3] (iv) What does the speaker want to say in the concluding lines?? [3] (v) How does the above extract reflect Browning’s optimistic philosophy of life ​

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