Question

It is the human earth that we defile.
Our hells of fire and dust outrage the innocence
Of air that is everywhere our own,
Remember , no men are foreign, and no countries strange. What is the poetic device in the second line of this stanza

What is the significance of the line " Of air that is everywhere our own

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Answer:

The poetic device in the second line of this stanza is that because of the war that is created by a few people, all the innocents have to suffer. In a war, the most affected people are the innocent ones who just craves for peace everywhere

By the line "Of air that is everywhere our own" the poet tells us that we all breathe the same air yet we try to harm each other. We defile our own mother earth. We should not hate each other as we are the children of the same mother earth.