CLASS 9
WIND
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Question
[CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
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Crumbling houses
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Crumbling rafters
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Crumbling memories
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Crumbling hearts
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Detailed explanation-1: -Crumbling hearts refers to weak persons. In this poem, the wind is described to have extreme power as it can destroy the windows, scatter the papers and throw papers. The people who are weak cannot bear the loss that the wind makes and these are the people that the poet refers to as crumbling hearts.
Detailed explanation-2: -So, he is saying that everything crumbles. Everything that is weak reacts by falling down and breaking in the face of adversity. So, the poet is saying that whenever a weak person faces any adversity or challenge in life he breaks down and falls. the wind god winnows and crushes them all.
Detailed explanation-3: -Question 7. What does ‘crumbling’ suggests in the poem ‘Wind’? derelict houses, doors, rafters, wood, and weak bodies, lives, and hearts from those that are strong and crushes them all.
Detailed explanation-4: -Solution : The poet says that the wind god winnows the weak crumbling houses, doors, rafters, wood, bodies, lives and hearts, and then crushes them all.