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Read the expression:
‘the blueprint of our past’s tomorrow’. Consider in a group why the poet has not mentioned ‘the present’. It is because of the planners who have possessed our ‘present’ in order to change ‘our past’ into the ‘future’ they desire. Go through the poem and write the lines which support this thought.
- The buildings are in alignment with the roads which meet at desired points.
- ____________________________________________
- ____________________________________________
- ____________________________________________
- ____________________________________________
- ____________________________________________.
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Solution
The lines which support the thought mentioned in the question are as follows:
- The buildings are in alignment with the roads which meet at desired points.
- They build and will not stop.
- Even the sea draws back and the skies surrender.
- They erase the flaws, the blemishes of the past.
- So history is new again
- The drilling goes right through the fossils of the last century.
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