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Question
Read the given lines and answer the questions given below.
Rumors are constantly being made,
And each day the house just begins to fade.
What happened inside that house?
- Does the house remain the same every day?
- How does the poet consider the house to be a mystery?
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Solution
- No. The house begins to fade every day. It does not remain the same.
- The poet does not know what happened inside the house. This remains a mystery.
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