Question

You’re very clever at poking fun at weaklings.
Frail crumbling houses, crumbling doors, crumbling rafters,
crumbling wood, crumbling bodies, crumbling lives,
crumbling hearts —
the wind god winnows and crushes them all.
(a) Who is considered clever in the above lines?
(b) Which word in the given lines would you consider as ‘Anaphora’?
(c) What destruction has the wind caused?
(d) What does this expression ‘winnows and crushes them all’ mean
(e) What is the Figure of Speech in this poem.

Answer 1

Answer:

a) Wind is being considered clever in the above lines.

b) Crumbling

c) Wind has destroyed the weak houses, doors and rafters.

d) Through this expression Poet here means that like in farms the wind helps in winnowing process by destroying and taking away the grain husk the same way a problem like wind destroys the weak men.

e) The figure of speech in the poem are ANAPHORA and PERSONIFICATION of wind.

HOPE THIS HELPS AS I AM ALSO IN CLASS 9TH AND THESE QUESTIONS HELPED ME IN MY REVISION

Answer 2

Answer:

The wind is also responsible for poking weaklings and crashing down houses and doors by winnowing them away. ... The poet says that the wind god winnows the weak crumbling houses, doors, rafters, wood, bodies, lives and hearts, and crushes them all. d. Weakling.