Earth
1. What do the physical features of the earth reveal to the poet?
The various physical features of the earth are its beauty, its perfect obedience to the light and its noble submission on the sun.2. Why is the poet apologetic to the earth? Pick out the lines that indicate this?
The poet is apologetic to the earth because human beings are ungrateful to the Earth. The earth supports us. But we do harm to the earth."We pierce your bosom with swords and spears
And you dress our wounds with oil and balsam". These lines indicate this
3. Why does the poet call the Earth merciful?
Though we harm the earth in many ways, the Earth does good to human beings. So the poet calls the earth as merciful.4. In what way does the Earth repay man for all his ill-treatment?
Men pierce the Earth with swords and spears. But the Earth dresses our wounds with oil and balsam.Men plant Earth's fields with skull and bones. But the Earth rears cypress and willow trees from it.
Men empty their wastes in the bosom of the Earth. But earth creates lillies and roses out of those elements.
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