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(i) Which figure of speech is used in the line “In bleak and bitter cold”? What special significance does the adjective bleak and bitter have?

Alliteration is used in the line “In bleak and bitter cold”. Six humans are caught against their will in “bleak and bitter cold”, but none of them uses the wooden stick each one has. The cold is bleak and bitter because these six humans are not warm or friendly with one another. The atmosphere is bleak because there is no hope for anyone to survive.

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(ii) Who are the people referred to in the above extract? Why do they need logs?

The six people who are different from each other on the basis of race Envie’s revenge etc. are referred to in the above extracts. They needed the logs because they needed logs of wood to keep the fire burning.

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(iii) What character traits would you associate with “the first one” and “the next” man? Why?

The first person who is a woman is prejudiced when she notices that one of the faces around the fire is black. She, therefore, holds her log back. The next man is a bigot who on seeing that one of the men in the group does not belong to the same church (i.e religious community) as his. This fact prevents himself from using his log to renew the fire.

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(iv) What does the first one hold back and why?

The first person holds back her log because she was guided by her prejudiced attitude towards the black man. So she does not use the log to prevent the black man from getting its warmth.

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(v) State how the following line is connected with the theme of the poem: Their dying fire in need of log

Metaphorically, it can be understood as the fire of compassion in their hearts that is dying. To keep it burning what they need is a log of wood, but they do not use it, Thus, by the end, each one of them dies from “the cold within”. The outside cold could have been taken care of only if they were not cold from within.

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