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  • 1. 
    The poet uses conversational style and personal pronouns as ‘you’, ‘we’ and `I’ because

  • he wants to be intimate with mankind
  • he tries to read out to the readers
  • he wants to establish contact easily
  • third person is ineffective

  • 2. 
    The last line of the poem is

  • and later proves to be alive
  • life is what it is about
  • I want no truck with death
  • and you keep quiet and I will go

  • 3. 
    Man needs to learn a lesson from

  • moon
  • stars
  • earth
  • sun

  • 4. 
    According to the poet wars that are fought have no

  • soldiers
  • weapons
  • fighter planes
  • survivors

  • 5. 
    ‘Cold sea’ is a poetic device

  • personification
  • transferred epithet
  • metaphor
  • alliteration

  • 6. 
    Without rush, without engines’ refers to

  • no noise
  • no hurry to go to the office
  • no travelling
  • no holidaying

  • 7. 
    The poet wants the entire humanity to

  • keep talking
  • keep running
  • keep laughing
  • keep still

  • 8. 
    ‘Have no truck with death’ means

  • will not die of the truck accident
  • remove poverty and illiteracy
  • have no association or deal with death
  • will not drive a truck

  • 9. 
    The poet advocates the balance of nature to be

  • maintained
  • destroyed
  • temporarily disturbed
  • ignored

  • 10. 
    What does man threaten himself with?

  • death
  • birth
  • robbery
  • suicide
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