Read the extract given below and answer the questions that follow."Those who prepare green wars,wars with gas wars with fire,victroy with no survivors,would put on cleen clothsand walk about with their brothersIn the shade, doing nothing"i) Who are those' here?ii) What are green wars, wars with gas, wars with fire"?iii) What does here mean by 'victory with no survivors'?iv) Which poetic device is used in the third line of the stanza?
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The question is asked from the poem Keeping Quite which is written by the poet Pablo Neruda.
(i). 'Those' are the people who pollutes the environment.
(ii). Green wars is the war with the environment, nature, war with gas is the gas as weapon used to destroy the nature, war with the fire is the forest fire which is suffered by the animals in the forest.
(iii). This statement means when the human beings wins the fight with the environment, there will be no one to celebrate it as all will die.
(iv). Metaphor is used.
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1. ' Those' hair refers to the politicians , The Statesmen and the scientist who are involved in initiating and aggravating wars and running after the so-called material advancement .
2. the expression refers to the wars which man is waging against men and against nature. man's activities are polluting the nature and the chemical nuclear weapons created by him to threaten to bring mankind to A painful end .
3. it means that the Wars may become a victory of man's scientific knowledge but would not leave any survivors to celebrate this victory .
4. Alliteration