Poem: A Far Away Village
(National Book Foundation - New Book/New Syllabus Based on Single National Curriculum Pakistan 2024-2025 and Onwards)
Q Read the poem and discuss with your classmate the following Figures of speech.
Ans:
a) Identifying metaphor
In this poem “fire beetles” are used metaphorically, which are still burning and belong to the poet's early childhood. What do you think they stand for?
They stand as a symbol of hope, dream, and a melancholic remembrance of an inner child in all of us.
b) Identifying alliteration
Discuss what is the effect of alliteration on the reader's mind?
● Tick tacking.
● Fading far, far away.
Alliteration is striking and memorable for the reader. It injects mood and emotion into the poem.
c) Identifying personification
The poem also depicts instances of personification. Underline the personifications used in it.
Discuss how does the use of personification affect the meaning?
How does it affect the mind of the readers?
● Bowed staircase breathing its last
Personification adds life, energy, and an element of reliability to things that would otherwise be lifeless. It affects the mind of the reader by making a poem more prominent and remarkable.
d) Interpreting similes
Read through the poem and pick up similes appearing in the text.
Decide what the object of comparison is and what is being compared.
How this act of comparison is deepening the meaning?
● Long abandoned house like a rapier tucked into the breast of silence
Long abandoned house is the object of comparison and it is being compared to a rapier tucked into the breast of silence.
This comparison deepens the meaning by showing that the house is useless and silent now just like a sword is when it is tucked in and not being used.
e) Understanding and analyzing imagery
Imagery is the “use of language to represent objects, actions, feelings, thoughts, ideas, state of mind and any sensory or extra-sensory experience.”
Read through the poem and pick up the phrases, and expressions which appeal to any of these senses and thus by appealing to the senses appeal to the readers’ emotions.
● Lisping words that fell from my lips once are still alive.
● Aged, bowed staircase
● Breast of silence
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Source: English Book (National Book Foundation, Pakistan)
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