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A Roadside Stand

Question
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Read the stanza given below and answer the questions that follow each:
Sometimes I feel myself I can hardly bear The thought of so much childish longing in vain,
The sadness that lurks near the open window there
That waits all day in almost open prayer.

1. What ‘I’ stands for in these lines?
2. What does the speaker call his thoughts?
3. What is the open prayer from near the open window?
4. Why does sadness lurk near the open window there?


Solution

1. Here I stands for the poet, Robert Frost.
2. The speaker calls his thought as childish longing in vain.
3. The open prayer is for the sound of coming cars to stop at the roadside stand.
4. When there turns up no customer, there prevails a lurking sadness near the open window.