Q6. Read the following extracts and answer the questions that follow.
A. Some say the world will end in fire
Some say in ice.
From what I've tasted of desire
I hold with those who favour fire.
(a) Why does he compare desires to fire?
(b) Why does the poet present two different opinions on destruction?
(c) The narrator has tasted and experienced .......................
(d) The two poetic devices used in this stanza are .......................
B. But if it had to perish twice
I think I know enough to hate
To say that for destruction ice
Is also great
And would suffice.
(a) What is the rhyme scheme of the stanza?
(b) The phrase "it had to perish twice' means...............
(c) What does the poet mean by 'And would suffice'?
(d) A word that means 'to die
(i) perish
(II) hate
(iii)destruction
(iv) solitude
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A.(a) Desires have been compared to fire as they consume a human being from inside out and reduce their humanity to ashes, like a raging fire.
(b) The poet does so to tell his readers that either we will destroy this world with our greed (fire) or with our intolerance of each other (ice).
(c) desire.
(d) Anaphora and alliteration.
B.(a) ababa
(b) The phrase means, 'If our world was too stubborn to completely die out from the destruction by fire (greed, lust, desire) and needed to be destroyed a second time.'
(c) It means 'it would be more than enough'.
(d) (i)perish
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