To Posterity Question & Answers (Litmosphere)
1 1.Comment on the opening line of the poem “To Posterity”? The opening line of the poem To posterity predicts the future existence of books and expresses anxieties and apprehensions of the poet. He visualizes a situation in which books have stopped working and it can no longer influence the readers. Books turned to be the lifeless objects and rests …
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To Posterity by Louis MacNeice line by line explanation and critical analysis
"When books have all seized up like the books in graveyards" At the outset of the poem speaker anticipates the future of the books and expresses his anxieties and concerns. He invites the readers’ attention into a situation where the books are completely out of work. It has stopped working in the sense; people no longer use it as they find plea…
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To Posterity by Louis MacNeice
When books have all seized up like the books in graveyards And reading and even speaking have been replaced By other, less difficult, media, we wonder if you Will find in flowers and fruit the same colour and taste They held for us for whom they were framed in words, And will your grass be green, your sky blue, Or will your birds be always wingless …
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The Mark of Vishnu by Khushwant Singh summary
"This is for Kala Nag," said Gunga Ram, pouring the milk into the saucer. "Every night I leave it outside the hole near the wall and it’s gone by the morning." "Perhaps it is the cat,” we youngsters suggested. "Cat!" said Gunga Ram with contempt. "No cat goes near that hole. Kala Nag lives there. As long as I gi…
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