Question

What is the simile that the poet uses in the last stanza of the poem ‘The Echoing

Green’? Explain.Class 6​

Answer 1

Answer:

In this poem, the poet uses the device of simile in the 6th and 7th lines of the 3rd stanza when he compares the children falling asleep on the laps of their mothers with birds in their nests, and also uses the word “like” while making this comparison.

Answer 2

Explanation:

a word or phrase that compares something to something else, using the words ‘like’ or ‘as’, for example ‘face like a mask’ or ‘white as snow’; the use of such words and phrases