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The poet is afraid seeing all the problems happening in the current era such
as pollution, stress, traffic jams, and destruction of forests, streams and hills.
4. According to the poem, how does human treat nature nowadays?
Nature is treated with no respect.
5. Why does the new generation worship money as their new 'god'?
The new generation worship money as their new god because with money,
they can do anything and live a life that is rather luxurious.
6. Based on the poem, define the phrases 'we feared God and nature...
now nature fears you'?
These phrases mean people in the previous generation were afraid of God
and nature but now nature fears the current generation because of the
destruction they make.
7. According to the poem, the phrase 'money is your new God' is defined
as?
The current generation would choose money over anything as it is what they
favour the most.
8. State the message of the poem.
The poem shows the perspective of two different times of life where the
grandchild questions the grandparents about their life without technology
and the grandparents replied that they lived a life so peaceful.
9. Who is the persona in stanza 1?
10.
The previous generation lived in a life that was free of pollution, stress, traffic
jams, and destruction of forests, streams and hills.
12.
The current generation is living in a life with technology but with pollution,
stress, traffic jams, and destruction of forests, streams and hills.
13.
The grandparents think that the life in the present time was more peaceful
and problems free.
14.
What is the high price people today have to pay for
modernization? State three of them.
The price people today have to pay for modernization are pollution, stress
and traffic jams. (Destruction of forests, streams, and hills.)
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