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Author has used gentle and subtle humour to point out human foibles and idiosyncrasies in the lesson ' Poets and Pancakes'. Elucidate.

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Solution : Exposes Robert Clive’s ambitions and his RESTLESS nature.Office boy’s boasting and bragging about his talent is brought out.Legal ADVISER is known as the opposite.Use of pancake –ostensibly to cover the pores.Team of makeup artists is referred to as ‘gang of nationally integrated make up men'who could turn any decent LOOKING person into a hideous crimson hued monster.Strict hierarchy.Commenting on Subbu’s EXPOSURE to affluent situations. He ridicules his virtue- the virtue of being a Brahmin. His inefficiency is POINTED out subtly with a comment ' he always had work for somebody' . The rapidity with which Subbu offered his Boss alternatives when he got stuck up is very amusing.Pokes fun at the ignorance of all the people .People did not know who was Stephen Spenders and why had he arrived.10


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