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Read the following extracts and answer the questions that follow:My instep arch not only keeps the ache, It keeps the pressure of a ladder-round. I feel the ladder sway as the boughs bend. And l keep hearing from the cellar bin The rumbling sound Of load on load of apples coming in. For I have had too muchi. Why does the poet’s instep arch ache?ii. What has he been doing?iii. What is the rumbling sound that the poet hears?iv. Why does the poet say that he has had ‘too much’? What is he referring to?v. Why does the ladder sway? |
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Answer» i. The speaker feels not only the ache from the ladder on his foot, which would be natural to feel later in the day. He also feels the continuing pressure of the ladder, as if he were still standing on it. Thus the speaker can feel the pressure of the ladder on the bottom of his foot, and the ‘swaying’ of the ladder against the bending branches of the apple tree. ii. He has been picking apples. iii. He hears the rambling sound of barrels of apples being unloaded into a bin for sorting. iv. He states, in the most direct terms, that he is sick of picking apples and he has had too many apples. v. The ladder sways against the bending branches of the apple tree as there are too many apples. |
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