I. Read the following extracts and answer the questions.
A. Frail crumbling houses, crumbling doors, crumbling rafters,
crumbling wood, crumbling bodies, crumbling lives, crumbling
hearts
(a) What request does the poet make to the wind?
(b) Which poetic device has been used in these lines?
(c) What effect does this device create?
(d) What is the rhyming scheme of the above stanza?
(e) Explain the expression: "crumbling lives, crumbling
hearts
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Answers
Answer:
a) The poet requests the wind to come softly without any noise,requests not to break the shutter of the windows,not to scatter the papers as it may contain important documents,also requests not to throw down the books on the shelf.
B) anaphora
C) In this poem, the poet talks to the wind. The power of wind has been described and the poet says that wind is destructive. He has linked the destructive power of wind to the adversities of life and says that the weak people break down, but stronger people emerge out of adversities, stronger.
D) does not have a rhyming scheme.
e) Many lives are lost when wind wreaks havoc. The lives of the survivors are shattered too because their loved ones are dead and their homes and property are destroyed.
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a.The poet requests the wind to blow gently and not to cause any damage or destruction.
b.The poetic device used in these lines is ‘anaphora’ as the imperative ‘Don’t’ is repeated in three consecutive lines.
c.The imperative repetition of the word ‘Don’t’ at the beginning of three consecutive lines expresses the poet’s strong urge to the wind to be gentle and kind. It also creates a unique rhythm in the poem