Read the extract from the poem and answer questions that follow.
Now is the Globe Shrunk tight
Round the mouse's dulled wintering heart
Weasel and crow, as if moulded in brass
Move through an outer darkness.
Questions:
1) The poet uses the word globe to indicate something different from the literal meaning. What is it?
2) What sufferings do the animals undergo in the extract? 3) Write the meaning of:
a) Moulded b) Shrunk
4) The poet compares the snowdrop with _______
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1. The poet has perhaps used the "globe" for the snowdrop flower which has a round head.
2. Animals feel very dull in winter. all their sportiveness comes to an end. they found no place of shelter. they see death all around them. they remain in fear of death . in their fear they lose all their mobility. they seen to have been casted in a mould of brass.
3. a) moulded: frozen stillness of creatures.
b) shrunk : get smaller
4. the poet compares the snowdrop with "globe".
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