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Based on the understanding of the poem, read the following lines and answer the questions given below.
Our hells of fire and dust outrage the innocence
Of air that is everywhere our own,
Remember, no men are foreign, and no countries strange.
- What outrages the innocence?
- Who are not foreign?
- What is not strange?
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Solution
- The fire and dust caused during a war when innocent people as well the earth suffer the purity is lost.
- The people who belong to earth are not foreign.
- All the countries on earth are not strange.
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