Literature In English Past Questions and Answers

In Mine Boy Peter Abraham's is of the view that in South Africa

'He sat down on a box. he took out letter he had received from Joseph the other Friday and read it again. Then he put it back. A tear, a single tear, ran down his face. he rubbed it off, rather impatiently. he poured water, cold water from a cup, into one hand and washed his face.<br/>He was suddenly very lucid, calm inside'. <br/>What makes this scene taken from a novel very real to the reader is the writer's use of

'Folk all fade. And whither.<br/>As i wait alone where the fair was?<br/>Into the clammy and numbing night fog<br/>Whence they entered hither<br/>Soon one more goes thither!<br/>In these lines, 'the clammy and numbing night fog' (line3) refers to

'Dead leaves blew into the room.<br/>And alighted upon my bed.<br/>Ans a tree declared to the gloom<br/>Its sorrow that they were shed'<br/>The mood registered in these lines is

So fair fancy few would weave <br/>In these years!<br/>The poetic device consciously used here is