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1.	Read the following stanza.I wish that I lived In a town To see all the trams Going down A twinkling streetThat is bright With wonderful colours At night! Now answer the following questions: a) Who does ‘I’ here refer to? b) Where does the speaker live? c) What does the speaker wish? d) Why does he want to live in a town? e) What attracts him to the town life? f) How are the streets in the town at night? g) What does the poet want to describe in the stanza? h) Pick out the rhyming words in the stanza. i) Why are the nights colourful in towns? j) If you were given an option to live in a town or a country, where would you prefer to live?
Answer» a) ‘I’ here refers to the country child. b) The speaker lives in a country. c) The speaker wishes to live in a town. d) In a town he can see the trams, the bright lights, colourful nights. They make him wish to live in a town. e) The trams, the colourful nights and the bright lights attract him to the town life. f) The streets are bright and colourful in the town at night. g) The poet wants to describe why people are attracted to the city life in the stanza. h) town – down; bright – night. i) The town wakes up all the night and some activity or other goes on all the night in the town. So the nights are bright and colourful in the town. j) If I were given an option to live in a town or in a country, I would prefer to live in a country.

Read the following stanza.I wish that I lived In a town To see all the trams Going down A twinkling streetThat is bright With wonderful colours At night! Now answer the following questions: a) Who does ‘I’ here refer to? b) Where does the speaker live? c) What does the speaker wish? d) Why does he want to live in a town? e) What attracts him to the town life? f) How are the streets in the town at night? g) What does the poet want to describe in the stanza? h) Pick out the rhyming words in the stanza. i) Why are the nights colourful in towns? j) If you were given an option to live in a town or a country, where would you prefer to live?

Answer»

a) ‘I’ here refers to the country child.

b) The speaker lives in a country.

c) The speaker wishes to live in a town.

d) In a town he can see the trams, the bright lights, colourful nights. They make him wish to live in a town.

e) The trams, the colourful nights and the bright lights attract him to the town life.

f) The streets are bright and colourful in the town at night.

g) The poet wants to describe why people are attracted to the city life in the stanza.

h) town – down; bright – night.

i) The town wakes up all the night and some activity or other goes on all the night in the town. So the nights are bright and colourful in the town.

j) If I were given an option to live in a town or in a country, I would prefer to live in a country.