WIND

 Wind

Textbook Exercise:

1)    What are the things the wind does in the first stanza?

Answer: The wind is destructive in the first stanza. It throws the books off the shelves, tears the pages of the books and brings rain.

 

2)    What does the poet say the wind god winnows?

Answer: The wind god winnows the crumbling houses, doors, rafters, wood, bodies, lives and hearts.

 

3)    What should we do to make friends with the wind?

Answer: To be friends with the wind, you should become as strong as the wind. We should make strong houses, strong body and strong hearts.

 

4)    What do the last four lines of the poem mean to you?

The last four lines mean the following:

Answer: If you are weak, the bigger problems may make you miserable, but if you are strong, you enjoy dealing with bigger problems. The more you deal with such problems, the more develop you become.