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प्रश्न
Read the line given below and answer the question that follow.
‘But now they only laugh with their teeth, While their ice-block-cold eyes…’
- Who are ‘they’?
- Explain: ice-block-cold eyes
- Identify the figure of speech used here.
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उत्तर
- ‘They’ refers to modern people.
- Ice-block cold eyes’ means eyes lacking a feeling of warmth or endearing feelings like love, sympathy, and empathy.
- ‘Ice block cold eyes’ has been used as a metaphor. It implies that the man who laughs with his ice-cold block eyes has no real emotions. He looks through people.
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