Read the following extract carefully and answer the questions that follow (from 'Aunt Jennifer's Tigers' by Adrienne Rich):

Aunt Jennifer's tigers prance across a screen,
Bright topaz denizens of a world of green.
They do not fear the men beneath the tree;
They pace in sleek chivalric certainty.

(a) How do Jennifer's tigers behave?

Question

Read the following extracts and answer the questions for any one of the given two, (a) or (b) :

Those who prepare green wars,
wars with gas, wars with fire,
victory with no survivors,
would put on clean clothes
and walk about with their
brothers
in the shade, doing nothing.

(Keeping Quiet)

Answer 1

Step 1: Describe using the poem's own imagery:
They are 'bright topaz denizens', bold, colourful inhabitants of their imagined world, showing no hesitation.

Step 2: Final Answer:
They behave with fearless, proud confidence, prancing freely as though nothing in the world could threaten them.

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