Question

Read the lines given below and answer the questions that follow.

“Life is a soft loam; be gentle; go easy. ” And this too might serve him.

(i) Why does the poet suggest to take life easy?

(ii) Identify the figure of speech in the above line.

Answer 1

(i) There are certain occasions one needs to treat life like wet clay very gently. Take life as it comes without hard resistance. The poet says, “Brutes have been gentled where lashes failed.”

(ii) Metaphor