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Question
The poet opens his poem with a question. Is the question asked to receive some answer? No. It is a question used to emphasize and stress upon the fact that modern man has no time to enrich his life from nature.
Such a device used by poets falls under the Figure of Speech called 'Interrogation' or 'Rhetorial Question'. Refer to the poem 'The Pilgrim' and find examples of Interrogation.
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Solution
- Why waste your time in building here?
- Why build ye here at even tide?
- ‘What is this life, if full of care, We have no time to stand and stare?
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