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A Roadside Stand
How does the poet feel at the thought of the plight of the rural people?
The rural people have extended a shed at the edge of the roadside so that the city traffic may come and purchase their commodities but they pay no heed to them.
They go on waiting throughout the day with their window open but all in vain. On seeing this indifference the poet is much aggrieved at the attitude of the city folk.
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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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