A Roadside Stand
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?
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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Polished traffic refers to:
The reaction of a stopping car for the landscape was:
Read the stanza given below and answer the questions that follow each:
Offered for sale wild berries in wooden quarts
Or crook-necked golden squash with silver warts
Or beauty rest in a beautiful mountain scene
You have the money, but if you want to be mean
Why keep money (this crossly) and go along.
The hurt to the scenery wouldn’t be my complaint
So much as the trusting sorrow of what is unsaid
1. What was offered for sale and where?
2. According to the poet where does the beauty rest?
3. Explain: If you want to be mean.
The items which were sold on the roadside stand were:
Beauty, according to Robert Frost, rests in:
Moneyed people are mean. It means:
Read the stanza given below and answer the questions that follow each:
Here far from the city we make our roadside stand
And ask for some city money to feel in hand
To try if it will not make our being expand
And give us the life of the moving pictures promise
That the party in power is said to be keeping from us.
1. Who made a roadside stand and where?
2. Who wanted to feel the money in hand?
3. Who hoped to be helped and by whom?
4. What was the promise made and who made it?
The roadside stand was set up by:
From whom did the rural people desire to get money?
The promise of providing motion pictures for the rural folk was made by:
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