what if you are the one of the individual from the cold within
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The poet has referred here not a group but six humans who are caught by chance in bitter cold, facing unfavourable climatic conditions. The people need logs to keep the fire burning and keep them warm but unfortunately none of them uses his log and saves himself from death.
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Answer : The poet has referred here not a group but six humans who are caught by chance in bitter cold, facing unfavourable climatic conditions. The people need logs to keep the fire burning and keep them warm but unfortunately none of them uses his log and saves himself from death.
Question 2 : Explain the expression ‘bleak and bitter’ cold.
Answer : The adjectives bleak and bitter perhaps set the dangerous outcome of their actions in the end. Bleak itself suggests a state of helplessness. It was acute cold and fire was badly needed to fight with the extreme cold. These words also suggest to the decaying moral values due to which people are unwilling to act unselfishly.
Question 3 : ‘Each of them possesses a stick of wood’. What does this expression suggest here?
Answer : This phrase is both literary and symbolic. Literally, it means that the object i.e. peace of wood held by each one of them is helpful in keeping the fire burning. It can save their lives. Symbolically, it means some traits which are deep rooted in an individual. As they possess them, it is difficult to change them on the spur of moment.
Question 4 : ‘So the story is told’. Do you think the poem is based on a story or is it poet’s own creation?