What do you think the 'terrible fish' in the last line symbolizes? What is the poetic device used here?
Read the given lines and answer the questions: -
I chatter, chatter, as I flow
To join the brimming river,
For men may come and men may go,
But I go on for ever.
(a) Who does ‘I’ refer to in the given lines?
(b) How does it ‘chatter’?
(c) Why has the poet used the word ‘brimming’? What kind of a picture does it create?
(d) Explain the last two lines of the stanza.
What is the poetic device used when the mirror says 'I swallow'?