Question

. ‘It is the human earth that we defile.’ What does the word ‘defile’ mean in this line? *
1 point

Answer 1

Answer:

Pollute, Corrupt, Degrade etc.

Answer 2

Answer:

It is the human earth that we defile. In this stanza, the poet provides further implications of war. He says that if we, the guardians of the earth, were to die out as a result of the war, then there would no one left to take care of the home that our ancestors had passed down to us.

In this line, defile means to make unclean or impure: such as to corrupt the purity.