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Read the extract given below and answer the questions that follow:

... and clear rills


That for themselves a cooling covert make


‘Gainst the hot season; the mid forest brake,


Rich with the sprinkling of fair musk-rose blooms;


(a) Identify the poem and the poet.


(b) What is the role of the clear rills?


(c) How has the mid forest brake become rich?


(d) Name the figure of speech in ‘cooling covert.’


OR


...... On their slag heap, these children


Wear skins peeped through by bones and spectacles of steel


With mended glass, like bottle bits on stones.


(a) Name the poem and the poet.


(b) Explain: ‘slag heap.’


(c) What future awaits these children?


(d) Name the figure of speech used in the third line.


(a) John Keats- poet


A thing of beauty- the poem


(b) Clear rills are the water, river, and streams that are the major source of water and are very necessary for mankind to continue all forms of life on the earth. And their beautiful sight gives us a cooling effect.


(c) The mid forest brake refers to the thick forest undergrowth which becomes rich by the blooming of rose flowers and musk in between the mid forest brake.


(d) The figure of speech used is Alliteration used in Cooling Covert. Alliteration is a figure of speech used when there is an occurrence of the same letter or sound at the beginning of adjacent or closely connected words.


OR


(a) Poem: An Elementary School Classroom in a slum


Poet: Stephen Spender


Stephen Spender was an English poet and an essayist. He wrote on themes of social injustice and class inequalities.


(b) In the poem above, the slag heap refers to the bodies of children which look like heaps of garbage.


(c) The children live in dirty and unhygienic surroundings. They live in miserable conditions, and their future seems foggy. This means that their present conditions do not point towards a bright future and they may end up living in similar conditions lifelong.


(d) Simile is used in these lines. While comparing two things if words such as 'like' or 'as' is used then it is called simile.


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