Question

Wind, come softly.

Don’t break the shutters of the windows.

Don’t scatter the papers. Don’t throw down the books on the shelf

There, look what you did — you threw them all down.

You tore the pages of the books. You brought rain again.

Frail crumbling houses, crumbling doors, crumbling rafters,

crumbling wood, crumbling bodies, crumbling lives,

crumbling hearts —

the wind god winnows and crushes them all.

Questions:

1. What does the poet ask the wind to do?

2. Give another word for the expression ‘to spread all over’

3. What has it brought again?

4. What destruction has the wind caused? 5. Who is ‘you’ in the above lines?​

Answer 1

Answer:

1. the poet asks the wind to come softly and gently.

2. scatter

3. it has brought rain again.

4. the wind broke the shutters of the windows, scattered the papers,threw down the books and tore the pages of the books.

5. you is referred to as wind in the above lines

Answer 2

Mujhe padhna nahi tu tameez karne shikh ja phir dusro ko sikhana