Read the extract given below and answer the questions that follow :
And I shall have some peace there, for peace comes dropping slow
Dropping from the veils of the morning to where the cricket sings;
(a) What does the word 'there' in the above lines refer to ?
(b) How does peace enter the huts of peasants ?
(c) Name the literary device used in the poem.
OR
At my slightest movement, the snake would strike me! Death lurked four inches away. Suppose it struck, what was the medicine I had to take ? There was no medicine in the room. I was but a poor, foolish and stupid doctor. I forgot my danger and smiled feebly at myself. It seemed as if God appreciated that.
(a) Who is 'I' in the above extract ? What happened to him ?
(b) What does the author mean by saying that 'death lurked four inches away' ?
(c) Find the word from the extract that means 'linger'.
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(i) ‘There’ in the above lines refer to Lake Isle of Innisfree.
(ii) Peace enters the huts of peasants through the morning dew drops.
(iii) Metaphor.
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(a) ‘I’ is the author. He was scared because of the snake.
(b) Here It means the snake which had coiled around his left arm above the elbow and spread out its hood.
(c) ‘Lurked.’
(ii) Peace enters the huts of peasants through the morning dew drops.
(iii) Metaphor.
OR
(a) ‘I’ is the author. He was scared because of the snake.
(b) Here It means the snake which had coiled around his left arm above the elbow and spread out its hood.
(c) ‘Lurked.’
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