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Understand the poem
What is the poet trying to tell us? Read the following and
find out the ideas of the poet. Work in groups.

1. When is justice reduced to trade?

2. What is the poet’s concern about justice expressed in the
line, ‘A distressing gain through loss’?
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3. What kind of a right is justice?
4. What kind of justice is dead, according to the poet?
5. How does the poet describe justice?

6. What present status of justice worries the poet?
Read and appreciate

1. The poet compares justice to ‘gold strains’, ‘ice’ and ‘rock’.
Why?

2. The poet says,
‘No easy road to charm her soul
Not to be republished
While hardship makes her no more justice.’

Do you find his opinion about justice contrasting? If so,
why? If not why? Discuss in groups.
Figures of Speech

Read the following lines :
1. ‘Though wrapped in black packs

…..Like gold strains bound in mud...’
‘She is cool like ice
And still like rock’

3. ‘Like rat, caught in the sack of death,
Like deer, caught in lion’s lair’
In all these lines the poet compares ‘justice’ directly, using
‘like’ to ‘ gold strains’, ‘ice’, ‘rock’, rat caught in the sack of death’,
‘deer caught in lion’s lair’. These are all similes.

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