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Question
And I watered it in fears
Night and morning with my tears;
How is ‘it’ watered?
Solution
It is watered with fears and tears and tears of the poet.
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Complete the table by identifying lines, against the poetic devices from the poem. One example is done for you.
| Poetic device | Lines from the poem |
| Alliteration | watch his woods |
| Personification | |
| Repetition | |
| Imagery |
Do you argue often with your classmates?
And it grew both day and night,
Till it bore an apple bright.
What grew both day and night?
It has grown Slowly consuming the earth,
Rising out of it, feeding Upon its crust, absorbing.
How has the tree grown?
The bleeding bark will heal And from close to the ground
Will rise curled green twigs, Miniature boughs.
What will rise from close to the ground?
The root is to be pulled out
Out of the anchoring earth;
Why should the root be pulled out?
Do you think rivers have life like human beings?
Tending onward to the ocean,
Just like mortal prime.
What does the poet mean by ‘mortal prime’?
But I know no better spectacle,
Than a comet in full flight.
Who does 'I’ refer to?
Narrate how the poet describes the comet.
