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A Roadside Stand
Do you think that Robert Frost has rightly portrayed the role of different agencies in the name of helping the poor people?
Or
According to Robert Frost all the social agencies derive their calculated benefits in the name of helping the poor. Comment.
The poet has rightly portrayed the selfish human nature. The indifferent attitude of the city folk towards the rural folk is also a well-known fact.
The refined city people passing through the countryside in their luxurious cars, hardly pay any heed to the people who run the roadside stand. They don’t stop there thinking it to be a mere waste of time. If they do, it is for making some or the other inquiry. It leaves behind a trusting sorrow on the faces of the poor people because they don’t make any purchase there.
The Government and other social agencies make tall promises but they do no good. They misguide them and obtain profit from them. The poor go on waiting in vain. The greedy good-doers make false promises of their upliftment but do nothing.
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The shed pled pathetically because:
Read the stanza given below and answer the questions that follow each:
But for some of the money, the cash, whose flow supports The flower of cities from sinking and withering faint
The polished traffic passed with a mind ahead
Or if ever aside a moment, then out of sorts
At having the landscape marred with the artless paint
Of signs that with N turned wrong and S turned wrong
1. What is that supports the flow of cities?
2. What is the significance of the cash flow for city folk?
3. What do you understand by the polished traffic?
4. How did a stopping car react for the landscape?
5. Which word in the stanza means - fading?
The flow of cities is supported by:
Polished traffic refers to:
The reaction of a stopping car for the landscape was:
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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?
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