CBSE ENGLISH LANGUAGE & LITERATURE

Detailed explanation-1: -Basically, the poet wants to say that the actual life of a tiger is to live in jungle where he could catch his prey and eat it but the tiger in the cage can not do so. Imagery: The poet has tries to create an image of tiger’s activities (lurking in shadow).

Detailed explanation-2: -Solution : The poetic devices used in the line “ On pads of velvet quiet, In his quiet rage"are : metaphor.

Detailed explanation-3: -In this poem, the poet uses the device of metonymy in the 2nd line of the 4th stanza. He uses the word ‘strength’ to mean the body of the tiger, where the entire strength of this majestic creature resides and which is locked up within a cage in the zoo.