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• Why is ‘imperial power’ compared to the splendor of sunset?
• ‘All float away down the stream of time’. What image do you get from this line?
• Pick out the lines which mean emeralds, rubies and pearls are transient.
• In this poem, the poet uses similes and metaphors. A simile is a figure of speech that draws comparison between two things using the words ‘like’ or ‘as’. Pick out instances of similes from the poem.
• What do you think was Shah Jahan’s ‘heart’s pain’?
• What, in the poet’s view, are the things that would float away down the stream of time?
• Poets use various images to lead the readers to a sensory experience. Images often give us mental pictures that appeal to our senses of sight, sound, taste, touch, and smell. Pick out instances of visual and auditory (sound) images from the poem. One is done for you.
• Write down words from the poem related to transience and eternity.
• Pick out two instances of simile from the poem.
• Read the lines from the poem ‘Taj Mahal’ and answer the following questions.You knew, Emperor of India, Shah Jahan, That Life, youth,wealth, renown All float away down the stream of time Your only dream Was to preserve forever your heart’s pain The harsh thunder of imperial power Would fade into deep Like a sunset’s crimson splendour, But it was your hope That at least a single, eternally- heaved sigh would stay To grieve the sky a. Who does the poet address as ‘you’ in the poem? b. What does the expression ‘float away down the stream of time’ signify? c. Pick out an instance of simile from the above lines? d. What does the expression ‘heart pain’ refer to?e. Pick out the word which is related to ‘Kingship’.