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‘Fade homeward through the humid monsoon night’.
In the above line, the weather is humid, not the night. The epithet or adjective is transferred from the weather to the night. This figure of speech is Transferred Epithet. Find out another such expression from the poem.
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Solution
He hurries across the length of the grey platform,
In the above line, grey refers to old age not platform. The epithet or adjective is transferred from the person to the platform.
Home again, I see him drinking weak tea,
In the above line, weak is often referred to a person not a tea. The epithet or adjective is transferred from the person to the tea.
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