Q. What do you think is the purpose of the author why she wrote the poem?
Answer: An author’s purpose is his reason for or intent in writing. An author’s purpose may be to amuse the reader, to persuade the reader, to inform the reader, or to satirize a condition.
Q. What is the meaning of Warth?
Wrath is great anger that expresses itself in a desire to punish someone: Noah saw the flood as a sign of the wrath of God. Wrath is also used figuratively of things that behave in a violent way: Earthquakes are the wrath of the sea.
Table of Contents
- Q. What do you think is the purpose of the author why she wrote the poem?
- Q. What is the meaning of Warth?
- Q. What would you do if you had a misunderstanding with your enemy suggest 2 ways?
- Q. What are soft deceitful wiles?
- Q. How does Mr Raut’s fate affect Mr Horrocks after he takes his revenge?
- Q. How does Mr Rauts fate affect Mr Horrocks after he takes his revenge?
- Q. What happens between Raut and Horrocks at the railway crossing?
- Q. Which of the following best describes a major theme of the poem a poison tree?
- Q. What is Horrocks theory in the cone?
Q. What would you do if you had a misunderstanding with your enemy suggest 2 ways?
- -What would you do if you had a misunderstanding with your enemy? Suggest 2 ways. 1.Talk to my enemy and solve the problem 2.ignore my enemy.
- -In stanza 1, what happened to the persona when he did not express his anger?
Q. What are soft deceitful wiles?
The speaker says he ‘sunned it with smiles’ and ‘and with soft, deceitful wiles’. This means he is creating an illusion with his enemy saying he is pretending to be friendly to seduce and bring him closer. So, obviously, his malicious intentions were hidden behind illusion and he prevailed over his enemy.
Q. How does Mr Raut’s fate affect Mr Horrocks after he takes his revenge?
Raut’s fate affect Mr. Horrocks after he takes his revenge? Mr. Horrocks is horrified and sickened by what he has done to Raut in his anger, and so he quickly puts Raut out of his misery.
Q. How does Mr Rauts fate affect Mr Horrocks after he takes his revenge?
Raut’s fate affect Mr. Horrocks after he takes his revenge? Mr. Horrocks is overcome by his anger and becomes inhuman in his rage, killing Raut quickly and without hesitation.
Q. What happens between Raut and Horrocks at the railway crossing?
Finally Horrocks seizes Raut by the arm; Raut loses his balance and he falls, saving himself by clutching the chain of the cone. “Horrocks, he saw, stood above him by one of the trucks of fuel on the rail. The cone drops and hot gas escapes from the furnace; Raut’s end is described in macabre detail.
Q. Which of the following best describes a major theme of the poem a poison tree?
Which of the following best describes a major theme of the poem? Deceitful people are always punished by their own trickery. The speaker tricks the foe into trusting them by hiding their anger in the first stanza and offering the foe a poisoned apple later on in the poem.
Q. What is Horrocks theory in the cone?
On their way through the industrial landscape, Horrocks explains how cones have been added to block the throats of the furnaces so fire doesn’t “flare out” of them like “pillars of cloud by day . . . and pillars of fire by night.” Despite the cones, however, occasionally a furnace does belch “a burst of fire and smoke. …
