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Read the Above Lines and Answer the Question that Follow. Why Does Browning Say that the Palsied Watched the Execution? - English 2 (Literature in English)

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प्रश्न

There's nobody on the house-tops now...
Just a palsied few at the windows set;
For the best of the sight is, all allow,
At the Shambles' Gate-or, better yet,
By the very scaffold's foot, I trow.

Read the above lines and answer the question that follow.

Why does Browning say that the palsied watched the execution?

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उत्तर

Browning described the people watching the execution as ‘palsied’. Only the old and riddled with disease could be bothered enough to watch the hanging. This contrasts with the importance of the man: a man of power would have many watch his death. It’s all gone wrong as nobody is on the roof tops.

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