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Question
The poet uses words to create pictures or 'images' in the reader’s mind. For example, 'And sparkle out among the fern.'
Write down other lines that create images or pictures in your mind. (Any 3)
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Solution
- By twenty thorpes, a little town An half a hundred bridges.
- By thirty hills I hurry down, or slip between the ridges.
- I make the netted sunbeam dance Against my sandy shallows.
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