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How will you visually represent the changing mood of the narrator? Justify your visual in about 80-100 words.

The narrator seemed pretty happy and content at the beginning of the poem. He was lost into the beauty of the summers, the odour of freshly cultivated hay, and into the thoughts if his lady love, when suddenly his emotions dropped down to zero. From roaming into his beautiful thoughts, he came back to reality, only to realize that he had dropped an easy catch. The joy and content of his face and heart got converted into embarrassment and regret. The murmurings of the crowd seemed to pierce his heart, as he could feel the terrible pang and their constant mocking. His colorful thoughts got dispirited very quickly, and he seemed to be swayed away with the pressure of the ground at that moment, which led him to criticize himself, and ultimately, he decided not to play cricket anymore.


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• breeze bore an odor of hay (olfactory /smell) Pick up at least five more images.


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