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Read the following stanza. I live in the town In a street; It is crowded with traffic And feet; There are buses and motors And trams; I wish there were meadows And lambs. Now answer the following questions: a) Who does ‘I’ in the above stanza refer to? b) Where does the speaker live? c) How is the street where he lives? d) Why is there a lot of traffic? e) Does the speaker like the town? f) What does he wish? g) How does the speaker like his place to be? h) Where does the speaker want to live? i) Why does the speaker not like the town? and lambs-in towns or in the country ? k) Pick out the rhyming words from the stanza. |
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Answer» a) ‘I’ in the above stanza refers to the town child. b) The speaker lives in the town. c) The street is full of traffic and pedestrians. d) Because there are a lot of buses, motors and trams. e) No. The speaker (the town child) does not like the town. f) He wishes that there were meadows and lambs. g) The speaker likes his place to be beautiful with meadows and animals. h) The speaker wants to live in a village which is full of meadows and animals. i) The town is completely congested with full of buildings and traffic. There are no meadows and animals which make the nature beautiful in the town. So he does not like to live in a town. j) We can expect the meadows and lambs in the villages but not in the town. k) 1) street…. feet; 2) trams – lambs. |
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