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Read lines 49-70. Pick out words that suggest an absence of 'sound'. Why do you think everybody was silent?

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Some words that suggest the absence of sound are :

‘wordless dumb’ , face of old woman-‘marred with suffering’, ‘no sound’, ‘silence’,


‘no cries of anguish’ , not ‘a single word’


The people in the poem were shocked to silence. They could not even stream or cry.


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Read lines 49-53 and list down the words used to describe the people around the narrator.

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What different feelings are conveyed through the poem. Put a tick mark () against all the right words.


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The poem offers a series of snapshots of the horrors of an atom bomb, as observed by the narrator. Note that he himself is a victim. Yet his mental faculties remain alert and alive. Pick out a few snapshots that bring out the horrors of an atom bomb's use.

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