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How does the poet bring about the comparison of life with the river? Explain it with reference to the poem. - English

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How does the poet bring about the comparison of life with the river? Explain it with reference to the poem.

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Title: The River
Poet: Caroline Ann Bowles (1786 -1854)
Theme: The journey of life to eternity.

In the poem “The River”, the poet Caroline Ann Bowles compares river with various stages in a person’s life. The river sparkles brightly. It dances over the yellow pebbles. It glances through the flowers and foliage. The river swells and rushes through rough and smooth places.’ It also brawls and leaps. It goes by rough rocks and rose – banks. The river is like a reckless youth. The river is full, wide, and deep. It is motionless like time.

Though it seems to be still, nves towards the ocean. It is like a man in his prime. The river moves down quickly into .1 *. -ea. The sea is very deep down quickly into the sea. The sea is very deep and its depth lias never been measured by a line. None has gone by ship completely around the sea which is like an eternity.
“It the earth is the mother, the rivers are her veins”

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उत्तर २

In the poem ‘The River’ the poet compares the river with the different stages in a man’s life. The river is bright sparkling on its way. It dances over the yellow pebbles. It glances through the flowers and foliage. It is like a child at play. The river is selling and rushing through rough and smooth surfaces. It is brawling and leaps. It goes through the rough rocks and rose-banks. It is compared to a recess youth.

The river is full, wide, and deep. it is still like time. It appears motionless but keeps moving to the ocean. It is like a life in its prime. the river runs quickly into the sea. The line has never measured the depth of the sea. No ship has ever rounded the sea compkkiy. the river is compared to eternity.
‘The river of knowledge has no depth’.

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Poetry (Class 9th)
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अध्याय 5.2: The River - Exercise [पृष्ठ १४४]

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अध्याय 5.2 The River
Exercise | Q D. 1. | पृष्ठ १४४

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