Question

Q1. Answer the following questions with reference to context.
"The blood has turned their stones to rust,
Their glory to decay."
a. Whose blood does the line refer to?
b. What does the phrase 'turned their stones to rust' refer to?
c. Whose 'glory' has diminished?

Answer 1

Answer:

The blood has turned their stones to rust, Their glory to decay. ... The poet suggests to us to ask the dust of the empires which are no more now about the result of such fierce battles. The bloodshed made the strong pillars of those empires weak as rust forces iron to decay.