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प्रश्न
In your own words give a detailed description of:
The Spider’s Parlour
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उत्तर
The story “The spider and the fly” tells of a cunning Spider who ensnares a naive fly through the use of seduction and flattery. The spider invites the fly to his parlour. The way to the parlour is up a winding stair. It is the prettiest little parlour that the fly had ever spied. There are many curious things. The spider wants to show them to the fly. There is a little bed to rest upon. There are pretty curtains drawn around. The sheets are fine and thin. On the whole, the spider’s parlour is the best and the prettiest.
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"The way into my parlour is up a winding stair,
And I’ve many curious things to show when you are there"
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Mention the rhyme scheme of the poem.
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Rampaging through the heavens
Never stopping day or night,
How does the comet travel?
With shockwave reaching to the ground
Causing the land to quake.
What is reaching to the ground?
But I know no better spectacle,
Than a comet in full flight.
Who does 'I’ refer to?
And the finest of conventions ever held beneath the sun
Are the little family gatherings when the busy day is done.
What does the poet mean by ‘finest conventions'?
There are some who seem to fancy that for gladness they must roam,
That for smiles that are the brightest they must wander far from home.
According to them, when do they get bright smiles?
But the gladdest sort of people, when the busy day is done,
Are the brothers and the sisters who together share their fun.
Who are the gladdest people?
