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B. Answer these questions.

1. What are the things mentioned by the poet that are the same everywhere?

2. What, according to the poet, does one find wherever one may go?
3. What does the poet wish to convey through the last three lines of the poem?

Reference to the context

Read the lines from the poem and answer the questions that follow.
1. Breezes hasten, swallows fly,

Towered clouds forever ply,

And at noonday, you and I

See the same sunshine above.

a. What does the line Breezes hasten, swallows fly mean?

i. The breezes hasten and the swallows fly.
ii. The breezes fly and the swallows hasten.

iii. The breezes and the swallows glide in the wind.
iv. The breezes and the swallows travel freely from one place to another without any

restrictions.

b. What do the ‘towered clouds’ do continuously?
c. What do the last two lines of the stanza mean?

i. that two people in same locations see different sunshine during noonday

ii. that two people in different locations see different sunshine during noonday
iii. that two people in same location see same sunshine during noonday

iv. that two people in different locations are connected by the same natural
experiences

2. Dew and rain fall everywhere,

Harvests ripen, flowers are fair,

And the whole round earth is bare

To the moonshine and the sun;

And the live air, fanned with wings,
Bright with breeze and sunshine, brings

Into contact distant things,

And makes all the countries one.

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