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A Road Side Stand Worksheet
A Road Side Stand Worksheet
A Roadside Stand
-Robert Frost
Read the given extracts and answer the questions that follow –
1. ‘The little old house was out with a little new shed.”
a) Which two things are described here?
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b) Which literary device is used in this line?
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c) What does the word ‘little’ suggest here?
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d) For what purpose was the shed put up?
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2. ‘It would not be fair to say for a dole of bread,
But for some of the money, the cash, whose flow supports
The flower of cities from sinking and withering faint.’
a) What is the roadside stand person asking for?
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b) Explain the meaning of “dole of bread”.
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c) Which literary device is used in the third line.
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d) Name the poem and the poet.
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3. ‘ You have the money, but if you want to be mean,
Why keep your 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:’
a) Who are ‘you’ referred to here?
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b) Why is the poet referring them as ‘mean’?
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c) What would not be the complaint of the poet?
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d) Explain, “trusting sorrow”.
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4.‘ While greedy good-doers, beneficent beasts of prey,
Swarm over their lives enforcing benefits
That are calculated to soothe them out of their wits
And are teaching them how to sleep they sleep all day,
Destroy their sleeping at night the ancient way.’
a) Which literary devices are used in line one?
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b) Explain: ‘greedy good-doers, beneficent beast of prey’.
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c) What did the rich people teach the rural folk?
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d) Explain, “ Swarm over their lives.”
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5. ‘Sometimes I feel myself I can hardly bear
The thought of so much childish longing in vain,
The sadness that lurks near the open window there,
That waits all day in almost open prayer.’
a) Explain ‘ childish longing in vain.’
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b) Why was the shopkeeper sad?
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c) What does the roadside stand owner wait for?
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d) What could the poet hardly bear?
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6. ‘of all the thousand selfish cars that pass,
Just one to enquire what a farmer’s prices are.
And one did stop, but only to plow up grass
In using the yard to back and turn around;
And another to ask the way to where it was bound;’’
a) What did the roadside stand owner wish for?
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b) Why were the cars referred as ‘selfish’?
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c) Why does the farmer wants his prices to be enquired?
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d) For what purpose do the cars stop there generally?
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