English, asked by subham854, 10 months ago

WIND
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Read the extract given below and answer the questions that follow :-

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.
You're very clever at poking fun at weaklings.

Questions:-

1) What does the stanza highlight?
2) What does the poet ask the wind?
3) Write the figure of speech used in these lines?
4) What did the wind tear?
5)Who is 'You' in the extract?
6) What did the wind do?
7) Why does the poet call the wind clever?​

Answers

Answered by realpopsmoke
14

Answer:

1. The stanza highlights the action of the wind.

2. The poem asked the wind not to thrown books on the floor, scatter paper, and to not break the shutters of the windows.

3. The figure of speech used in these lines are loud in this poem.

4. The wind tore the pages of the books.

5. The wind is "You".

Explanation:

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Answered by espees
21

1) The stanza highlights about what the wind is doing. About the damage it is causing. It is making a mess in the house by scattering papers, throwing down books from the shelf, etc.

2) The poet asks the wind to come softly without making a mess in the house and wrecking everything.

3) Personification - The poet is giving human traits or actions to a non living thing.

4) The wind tore the pages of the book.

5) The wind is 'you' in the poem.

6) The wind threw books from the shelves, tore pages of books and brought rain again.

7) Wind is called cleaver because it make fun of weaklings and doesn't disturb the strong. By these the poet is referring to fire. How the wind blows out small ones but enlarges big ones.

HOPE IT HELPS!!!

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