CBSE ENGLISH LANGUAGE LITERATURE

Detailed explanation-1: -What request does the poet make to the wind? He requested wind to not break the window pane and books from the shelf. He also asked the wind to not to scatter pages.In this poem wind is compared to challenges and these challenges never do the things we want.

Detailed explanation-2: -In the first stanza, the poet requests the wind to blow gently and not destroy anything with its force. He asks the wind not to break the shutters of the windows and scatter the papers here and there. He also requests the wind not to throw the books on the shelf.

Detailed explanation-3: -The poet makes a request to the wind in the above lines.

Detailed explanation-4: -Expert-Verified Answer The poet does not use any second person pronoun like ‘you’. But, he just asks the same question “What does he plant who plants a tree?” in the opening line of each stanza and attempts to answer it by himself.

Detailed explanation-5: -Expert-Verified Answer. The poet requests the wind to come softly without any noise, requests not to break the shutter of the windows, not to scatter the papers as it may contain important documents, also requests not to throw down the books on the shelf.