5. The poet has used personification in the poem. Personification is a literary devices which animals and non-living things are imagined as human beings with thoughts actions and emotions. Pick out a few lines from the poem that personify the earth and its creatures.

Explain the effect of the juxtaposition of the following lines that serve as a beginniing to the new section that begins on page nine: anguish. german soldiers-with their steel helmets and their deaths-head emblem. still, our first impressions of the germans were rather reassuring.