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Explain the following line. “…wild higgledy skeletons scoured the land in ‘forty-five’.”

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Explain the following line.

“…wild higgledy skeletons scoured the land in ‘forty-five’.”

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The line evokes the starving Irish people during the famine of 1845. “Higgledy” suggests disorder, while “skeletons” conveys extreme emaciation; “scoured the land” suggests desperate searching for food on devastated farmland.

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अध्याय 11: At a Potato Digging - Exercise [पृष्ठ ८०]

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अध्याय 11 At a Potato Digging
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