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Q. 12 Read the extract and answer the questions that follow:
All down the ages
Like a great tide,
Commoners walking
Where Nobel men ride,
Now in the sunshine
And now in the shade,
People move onward
While history's made.

(a) Name the Poem and the Poet.
(b) How is the difference in the status of commoners and noblemen indicated?
(c) Which lines in extract above suggest that people experience both good times and not so good time?
(d) Why do people on the move look like a great tide'?
(e) What is the theme of the poem?​

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2) while the action of the commoners walking is described as a tidal movement, the nobleman ride.

4) People on the move resemble the tide because of the large numbers in which they move.

3) ‘Now in the sunshine/And now in the shade,’ mention that people experience both good times and not-so-good time