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The city folk who drove through the countryside hardly paid any heed to the roadside stand or to the people who ran it. If at all they did, it was to complain. Which lines bring this out? What was their complaint about?
“the polished traffic passed with a mind ahead
Or if ever aside a moment, then out of sorts”
These lines bring out the sentences mentioned in the question. The complaint was about the wrongly indicated north-south signs.
The government and other social service agencies appear to help the poor rural people, but actually do them no good. Pick out the words and phrases that the poet uses to show their Double-standards.
1) Greedy good doers
2) beneficent beasts of prey
These are the words used by the poet to show their double standards.
What is the ‘childish longing’ that the poet refers to? Why is it‘vain’?
Lurking at the window for the sound of a stopping car by the stand owner was a childish longing according to the poet.
It is in vain because, most of the cars that pass by never stopped, though if someone stopped, they enquired about the nearby gas stations or about the price of the berries. No one was interested to buy them.
Which lines tell us about the insufferable pain that the poet feels at the thought of the plight of the rural poor?
“I wonder how I should like you to come to me
And offer to put me gently out of my pain.”
These are the lines that tell us about the poet’s feelings.
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