Ritik following extract given below and answer the the question that follow:
It weaves its own associations. Yet, to hear any flute is, it seems to me, to be drawn into the community of all mankind.
How is the future universal?
what connection is the speaker able to draw between the flute and human speech?
Find out the word from the given line which means harmony.
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Answers
It weaves its own associations. Yet hear any flute is, it seems to me, to be drawn into the commonality of all mankind, to be moved by music closest in its phrases and sentences to the human voice.
1. What does ‘it’ stand for?
‘It’ stands for a flute.
2. How does ‘it’ weave its own associations?
The expression means that each kind of flute produces a different and unique type of music associated with some particular place.
3. Why does it draw the author in the ‘commonality of all mankind’?
The flute draws the author in the ‘commonality of all mankind’ because this instrument is found in all cultures and is played in a similar manner. Hence, it seems to connect the whole of mankind.
4. Why is its music closest to the human voice?
The music of the flute is closest to the human voice because pauses and breaths are needed to produce musical notes of the flute in the same manner in which phrases and sentences are uttered in a human voice.