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‘I am the sigh of the sea, the laughter of the field The tears of heaven’. (a) Who is the speaker in these lines?
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08/02/2021 6:59 pm
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‘I am the sigh of the sea, the laughter of the field The tears of heaven’.
(a) Who is the speaker in these lines?
(b) How is the speaker the ‘laughter of the field’?
(c) ‘I am the sigh of the sea’. Explain.
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08/02/2021 7:00 pm
(a) Rain is the speaker in these lines.
(b) When rain falls and quenches the thirst of the field, the field becomes happy and seems to laugh.
(c) It refers to the birth of the rain when water evaporates and rises high in the sky.
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