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04/02/2021 5:01 pm
Topic starter
Read the extract given below and answer the questions/complete the sentences that follow:
“Perhaps the plaintive numbers flow.
For old, unhappy, far off things.”
(a) What do the ‘plaintive numbers’ refer to?
(b) Why does the poet use the word ‘perhaps’ here?
(c) Pick out a word similar in meaning to ‘to move continuously’.
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04/02/2021 5:02 pm
(a) ‘The plaintive numbers’ refer to, the highland girl’s.
(b) The poet uses the word ‘perhaps’ here because he does not know her language.
(c) Flow.