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02/02/2021 11:45 am
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And out again I curve and flow
To join the brimming river,
For men may come and men may go,
But I go on forever.
Paraphrase: Then the brook comes out curving and flowing to join the big river that is filled with water to the brim. Worldly activities will have no bearing on the brook. Men may take birth or die but the brook goes on flowing onward forever.
(a) Describe the poetic device used in these lines.
(b) What is the brimming river?’
(c) Quote a line that shows the eternal existence of the river.
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02/02/2021 11:46 am
(a) ‘Personification’ is the poetic device used in these lines.
(b) The bigger river which is filled to the brim and where the brook joins is the brimming river’.
(c) ‘But I go on forever’.