CLASS 9
WIND
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Question
[CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
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Like birds in the sky
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Like ladies’ skirts across the grass
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Like a kite up high
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As high as a kite
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Detailed explanation-1: -In this instance, he uses a simile. He claims that a sound that sounds very much like the wind is produced when the skirts of the girls paint against the grass. He also claims that the wind blows nonstop all day long and that it sounds like a loud song.
Detailed explanation-2: -The simile of an iron bar bending from some great force describes the wind’s deadly impact on a gull. “The house/ Rang like some fine green goblet in the note/ That any second would shatter it.” Hughes uses the simile of someone ringing the edge of a goblet to describe the sound of the wind against the house.
Detailed explanation-3: -The wind breaks the doors of the window, scatters the papers, and throws down the books on the shelf. It also tears the pages of the books and brings rain. Was this answer helpful?
Detailed explanation-4: -Anaphora is the figure of speech used here.
Detailed explanation-5: -In this poem, the author refers to ‘wind’ as a destructive force without comparing it to someone or something else. As a result, the poem uses wind as a symbol of metaphor.