Comprehension Passage
Read the given extract carefully and answer the following questions.
Suicide in the Trenches
‘’I knew a simple soldier boy
Who grinned at life in empty joy,
Slept soundly through the lonesome dark,
And whistled early with the lark.
In winter trenches, cowed and glum,
With crumps and lice and lack of rum,
He put a bullet through his brain,
And no one spoke of him again."
How does the poet use imagery in the first stanza of "Suicide in the Trenches"?
1
To portray the soldier as predatory and dangerous
2
To depict the soldier as innocent and natural
3
To show the soldier's longing for freedom and escape
4
To suggest the soldier's transformation into a beast due to war