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1. 1.

   Where do you think the soldiers are leaving for?

2. 2.

   Explain the expression 'grimly gay'. What figure of speech is this?

3. 3.

   What stood 'staring hard' and what is his emotion? Is everybody feeling the same? Give reasons for your answer.

4. 4.

   Why did women offer flowers to the soldiers? What makes the poet feel that the soldiers might mock the gesture?

5. 5.

   Quote the rhetorical question that has been used in the concluding section of the poem. With what purpose has it been used?

6. 6.

   Bring out the pathos in the last stanza.