Q.Read the given extract and do all the activities that follow.
What makes a nation’s pillars high
And it’s foundations strong?
What makes it mighty to defy
The foes that round it throng?
It is not gold. Its kingdoms grand
Go down in battle shock;
Its shafts are laid on sinking sand,
Not on abiding rock.
Is it the sword? Ask the red dust
Of empires passed away;
The blood has turned their stones to rust,
Their glory to decay.
A.1 Point Out (2)
Point out the expressions from the extract that state:
i) material wealth does not make the nation powerful and safe
ii) rich kingdoms have been defeated and destroyed.
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A.2 Poetic Devices : (2)
'Their glory to decay'
Name the figure of speech in the above line and find out the another example of the same.
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A.3 Personal Response : (2)
Explain your idea of a developed country.
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A.4 Poetic Creativity: (2)
Ask the red dust, is it sword?
of empires passed away;
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Their glory to decay.
The word order in the first line changed. Now complete the third line
to rhyme with the first line
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