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प्रश्न
Read the following line.
Some Whatifs crawled inside my ear
Can words crawl into your ear? This is an image. The poet is trying to make an image of what she/he experiences. Now with your partner try and list out some more images from the poem.
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उत्तर
(i) Pranced and partied all night long
(ii) Sang their same old whatif song
(iii) Everything seems swell
(iv) The night-time Whatif strikes again!
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