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प्रश्न
In the morning glad I see
My foe outstretched beneath the tree.
Why was the ‘foe’ found lying outstretched beneath the tree?
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उत्तर
The ‘foe’ ate the apple from the poison tree of anger. So he fell below the tree.
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संबंधित प्रश्न
What information does the poet highlight about the season and the time of the day in the poem?
What are the sounds heard by the poet?
It takes much time to kill a tree,
Not a simple jab of the knife Will do it.
Can a ‘simple jab of the knife’ kill a tree?
And out of its leprous hide Sprouting leaves.
What does the phrase ‘leprous hide’ mean?
Complete the table by identifying lines, against the poetic devices from the poem.
| Poetic lines | Poetic Devices/Figures of Speech |
| It takes much time to kill a tree. | |
| The bleeding bark will heal. | |
| Out of the anchoring earth |
Bright you sparkle on your way;
O’er the yellow pebbles dancing,
Through the flowers and foliage glancing, Like a child at play.
Pick out the rhyming words.
Seeming still, yet still in motion
Identify other examples from the poem for alliteration.
Rampaging through the heavens
Never stopping day or night,
How does the comet travel?
Faster than a cheetah
With a tail that’s miles long,
Whose tail is compared here?
But I know no better spectacle,
Than a comet in full flight.
Who does 'I’ refer to?
