“I live with bread like you, feel want, Taste grief, need friends – subjected thus, How can you say to me, I am a king?”

Question

Read the following sets of poetic lines and answer the following.

“I live with bread like you, feel want, 

Taste grief, need friends – subjected thus, 

How can you say to me, I am a king?”

(а) Mention the figure of speech employed in the last line. 

(b) What is surprising about the king’s words to his loyal friends?

Answer 1

(а) Interrogation 

(b) The king feels he is also an ordinary mortal deceived by the jester ‘death’. He also needs to taste grief and needs the support of friends during distress. This surprises his loyal friends.