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Read the following extract carefully and answer the questions that follow:Rich with a sprinkling of fair musk-rose blooms: And such too is the grandeur of the dooms We have imagined for the mighty dead: All lovely tales that we have heard or read: An endless fountain of immortal drink, Pouring unto us from the heaven’s brink. (a) Why does the poet mention the muskrose blooms? (b) How is grandeur related to the mighty dead? (c) What is an ‘endless fountain of endless drink’? (d) What is the figure of speech in the last line? |
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Answer» (a) Muskrose is one of the many things of natural beauty that Keats mentions in the poem. (b) The mighty dead were very powerful and dominating persons during their own times. (c) Nature and the tales created by man are an endless fountain of the immortal drink as they are an eternal source of beauty and solace to man. (d) Imagery is the figure of speech in the last line. |
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