Dear experts,as Roadside stand has been added into the cbse syllabus.. the studymaterial&ncert solutions for this chapter are absent..so pls explain this poem stanza by stanza as i shall be posting the stanzas 1by1..thankyou!
Dear experts,as Roadside stand has been added into the cbse syllabus.. the studymaterial&ncert solutions for this chapter are absent..so pls explain this poem stanza by stanza as i shall be posting the stanzas 1by1..thankyou! The hurt to the scenery wouldn't be my
complaint
So much as the trusting sorrow of what is
unsaid:
Here far from the city we make our roadside
stand
And ask for some city money to feel in hand
To try if it will not make our being expand,
And give us the life of the moving-pictures'
promise
That the party in power is said to be keeping
from us.
It is in the news that all these pitiful kin
Are to be bought out and mercifully gathered in
To live in villages, next to the theatre and the
store,
Where they won't have to think for themselves
anymore,
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 by teaching them how to sleep they sleep
all day,
Destroy their sleeping at night the ancient way.