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  1. Sunita Malik
    Sunita Malik

    The wandering singers keep singing while travelling in order to give the message of universal fraternity and brotherhood to the people of the whole world and tell them that the life is very short for hate and greed. Those who had power once are now dead and their kingdoms have ruined. Read summary oRead more

    The wandering singers keep singing while travelling in order to give the message of universal fraternity and brotherhood to the people of the whole world and tell them that the life is very short for hate and greed. Those who had power once are now dead and their kingdoms have ruined.

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  1. Sunita Malik
    Sunita Malik

    The wandering singers do not have any desires or hopes. They don't have their own homes or families. Instead, they consider wind as their fate. They give the message of universal brotherhood and the secret of real joy and happiness. Read summary of this poem.

    The wandering singers do not have any desires or hopes. They don’t have their own homes or families. Instead, they consider wind as their fate. They give the message of universal brotherhood and the secret of real joy and happiness.

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  1. Sunita Malik
    Sunita Malik

    The wandering singers sing about about: the cities whose glory is gone now, the laughter and the beauty of women who died long ago, battles, kings and their kingdom, all the things which may be happy or sad or simple. Read summary of this poem.

    The wandering singers sing about about:

    1. the cities whose glory is gone now,
    2. the laughter and the beauty of women who died long ago,
    3. battles, kings and their kingdom,
    4. all the things which may be happy or sad or simple.

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  1. Sunita Malik
    Sunita Malik

    According to the poet, life is not just sweet dreams. It is full of hardships. Until a person does not face problems and troubles in his/her life, he will not be able to live it. When a child grows up, he faces challenges at every phase. He has to bear thirst and hunger, he has to face failures, heRead more

    According to the poet, life is not just sweet dreams. It is full of hardships. Until a person does not face problems and troubles in his/her life, he will not be able to live it. When a child grows up, he faces challenges at every phase. He has to bear thirst and hunger, he has to face failures, he has to bear heart-breaks and so on. Hence the children should be ready to face the hardships of life and this will make them a mature human being.

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  1. Sunita Malik
    Sunita Malik

    Following poetic/literary devices or figures of speech have been used in the poem Life: Metaphor: It is a literary device that is used to make a comparison between two things that aren't alike but do have something in common. e.g. the poet compares life with a sweet dream and joy. Simile: It is a poRead more

    Following poetic/literary devices or figures of speech have been used in the poem Life:

    1. Metaphor: It is a literary device that is used to make a comparison between two things that aren’t alike but do have something in common. e.g. the poet compares life with a sweet dream and joy.
    2. Simile: It is a poetic device used to make comparison between two different things using “as” or “like”. e.g. “your hearts like billow”
    3. Personification: It is the attribution of human characteristics to animals and non-human things. e.g. “some resistless hour shall rise and move your heart”. 
    4. Symbolism: It is the use of symbols to represent things. e.g. “flames of amber and amethyst” symbolise struggles of life, “burn your brows with blood-red suffering” symbolise the pain which we bear when we grow up, “dream-shattering years” symbolise struggles of humans in their youth.
    5. Alliteration: it is the use of the same letter or sound at the beginning of words that are close together. e.g. “life is a lovely stalactite”, “carnival of careless joy”, “burn your brows with blood-red sufferings”, “great grief”, wounded with fierce desire and worn with strife”.

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  1. Sunita Malik
    Sunita Malik

    The poem The Gift of India was written in 1915, the time when World War-1 was going on. At that time, a large number of Indian soldiers were sent to the foreign lands to fight against the enemies. Mother India who cannot bear the separation of her sons has the hope that they will return back one dayRead more

    The poem The Gift of India was written in 1915, the time when World War-1 was going on. At that time, a large number of Indian soldiers were sent to the foreign lands to fight against the enemies.

    Mother India who cannot bear the separation of her sons has the hope that they will return back one day. This hope comforts her when the soldiers are in the foreign lands.

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  1. Swayamswarup Panigrahi
    Swayamswarup Panigrahi

    According to Mother India, her priceless treasures are her brave sons (Indian soldiers) who went to the foreign lands for fighting agains the enemies. Most of them sacrificed their lives fighting with the enemy.

    According to Mother India, her priceless treasures are her brave sons (Indian soldiers) who went to the foreign lands for fighting agains the enemies. Most of them sacrificed their lives fighting with the enemy.

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