Question

Frail crumbling houses, crumbling doors, crumbling rafters, crumbling wood, crumbling bodies, crumbling lives, crumbling hearts, the wind god winnows and crushes them all.

Why has the wind been called 'god'?

Answer 1

Answer:

Frail crumbling houses, crumbling doors, crumbling rafters, crumbling wood, crumbling bodies, crumbling lives, crumbling hearts — the wind god winnows and crushes them all. ... The poet suggests that our weak houses cannot face the might of the wind. He can crush them all.

Answer 2

Here the word crumbling is repeated so many times to lay stress that everything crumbles in the face of

strong wind. So the poet is trying say that when wind is powerful, it is very strong, it leads to breakage of

everything. Houses which are weak fall, the beams on which the roof of the building are supported, they

also fall, all the wooden structures fall, all bodies of people fall, animals, lives, hearts and so everything

crumbles. Everything that is weak reacts by falling down and breaking in the face of adversity. So the

poet is saying that whenever a weak person faces any adversity or challenge in life he breaks down and

falls.

The poet is addressing wind as wind god. He is saying that the powerful wind god winnows that means

he sifts all the people and those people who are weak fall down and get crushed. So here a comparison

is made between wheat and people. Just like winnow the wheat to separate the grain from chaff the

wind God separate the strong people from weak people. When there is strong wind all the living things

that are weak fall and get crushed.