Read the following stanzas and answer the questions given below them:I

1.	Read the following stanzas and answer the questions given below them:In the heat of the mid-day the houses stood with shut doors.I wandered along the crooked lane.An old man came out with his bag of gold.He pondered and said, “I will hire you with my money.”He weighed his coins one by one, but I turned away.(1) Houses are thought of as persons. How? ’(2) What was the old man carrying ?(3) What kind of person, do you think, must be the old man ?
Answer» 1. The poet has described houses as if they are standing by themselves closing their doors as men do. 2. The old man was carrying a bag full of gold. 3. The old man must be a person for whom money must be everything in his life than anything else.

Read the following stanzas and answer the questions given below them:In the heat of the mid-day the houses stood with shut doors.I wandered along the crooked lane.An old man came out with his bag of gold.He pondered and said, “I will hire you with my money.”He weighed his coins one by one, but I turned away.(1) Houses are thought of as persons. How? ’(2) What was the old man carrying ?(3) What kind of person, do you think, must be the old man ?

Answer»

1. The poet has described houses as if they are standing by themselves closing their
doors as men do.

2. The old man was carrying a bag full of gold.

3. The old man must be a person for whom money must be everything in his life than anything else.