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A Roadside Stand

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Discuss in small groups:

The economic well-being of a country depends on a balanced development of the villages and the cities.

Solution

When a country is progressing economically on all spheres of growth, then its people also become well off. The proportionate economic growth in the standard of living of the people speaks of the economic well-being of the country. In the poem ‘A Roadside Stand’, the poet has tried to ensure a balanced development of the villages and the cities by their mutual co-operation.

It is time that the balanced development ensures real satisfaction and happiness. The cities and villages are interdependent for essential things of everyday use. The villagers grow for them the agricultural produce, corns, vegetables, fruits, & oil, etc. The cities provide more employment avenues in the fields of education, business, research, amusements, industries, technology and medical sectors. Therefore, their mutual co-operation in all spheres of progressive activities ensures the balanced economic well-being of the country.

Robert Frost also expected that the city folk must have the requisite lift of spirit for the waiting poor rural people for their economic growth. The city people, if so determine, can at one stroke of help bring the poor villagers out of their pain.

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Some More Questions From A Roadside Stand Chapter

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:

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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