Hello friends today we are discuss this question, the question is -“His smile / Is like an infant’s…”-Whose ‘smile’ is being referred to here? Why is compared to the smile of an infant ? How does Nature take care of him?
The smile of the dead young soldier is being. The poet compares the smile of the young soldier to the smile of an infant, because just like an infant, the young soldier too has an innocent and gentle smile without any guile. It seems that after tiring labour in the battlefield, he is enjoying peaceful sleep. The much-needed break brings a pure smile like that of a child on the face of the soldier.
Nature takes care of him by providing him with the comfort of a warm bed of dense bushes and a pillow made of fern. Nature places multihued wild flowers at the dead soldier’s feet as a mark of respect for him. It seems that Nature has removed all the sufferings of the soldier.