A Roadside Stand

Question

Read the stanza given below and answer the questions that follow each:
I can’t help owning the great relief it would be
To put these people at one stroke out of their pain.
And then next day as I come back into the sane,
I wonder how I should like you to come to me
And offer to put me gently out of my pain.

1. Who is the speaker of these lines?
2. Who are these people referred to here?
3. Who can at one stroke put these people out of their pain?
4. How will the poet feel a great relief?


Answer

1. The poet, Robert Frost, is the speaker of these lines.
2. These people referred to here are the poor rural people.
3. The city folk at one stroke can put the poor rural folk out of their miseries and pains.
4. The poet will feel a great relief if the villagers are freed out of their pain by the city people.

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