CLASS 9
WIND
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Question
[CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
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Sort grains
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Clean rooms
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Blows strongly
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None of the above
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Detailed explanation-1: -Answer: winnows: to broke grain free of chaff, separate grain from husk by blowing on it. The poet is addressing to wind as ‘wind god’, and he is saying that the powerful god of wind winnows, that means he sifts all the people and those people who are weak fall down and get crushed.
Detailed explanation-2: -According to the poet, the wind god winnows and crushes the weak at heart like the wind separates grain from the chaff by winnowing. In the same manner, the wind can remove weak things and leave only those who are strong enough to face then.
Detailed explanation-3: -Alliteration-It is the repetition of a letter at the start of closely placed words. The repetition of the letter: ‘W’ in wind god winnows.
Detailed explanation-4: -Answer. Explanation: The poet says that the wind god winnows the weak crumbling houses, doors rafters, woods, bodies, lives and hearts or their crushes them all.