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A Roadside Stand

Question
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Which lines tell us about the insufferable pain that the poet feels at the thought of the plight of the rural poor?

Solution

Robert Frost, sees the poor rural people waiting for the polished city traffic to stop and help them with city money. But their waiting and this childish longing go in vain. Robert Frost gives the readers, the hint of his insufferable pain as -

“Sometimes I feel myself I can hardly bear

The thought of so much childish longing in vain.”

“I can’t help owning the great relief it would be

To put these people at one stroke out of their pain.”

Some More Questions From A Roadside Stand Chapter

What was put up in front of an old house at the edge of the road?

The purpose of the putting up of the shed was to:

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:


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: