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Class 12 English Chapter 14 A Roadside Stand
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A Roadside Stand
Lesson – 14
POETRY
| THINK IT OUT |
1. 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?
Ans: “The polished traffic passed with a mind ahead, or if ever aside a moment, then out of sorts at having the landscape marred with the artless paint of signs that with N turned wrong and S turned wrong” According to the city folk, these stalls with inartistic signboards blemish the scenic beauty of the landscape.
2. What was the plea of the folk who had put up the roadside stand?
Ans: The rural folks pleaded pathetically for some customers to stop by and buy some of their goods. City folks used to pass by on this road and hence the rural folk set up the roadside.
3. 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.
Ans: The poet criticizes the hypocrisy of the government and social service agencies, who make grand promises to improve the lives of poor farmers but fail to fulfill them when the time comes. Instead, they use these promises for their own benefit, exploiting the farmers. The poet describes them as “greedy good-doers” and “benevolent monsters of prey” who interfere in the farmers’ lives under the guise of help. These so-called benefactors take calculated actions, deceiving the innocent farmers, ultimately robbing them of their peace of mind. The poet highlights this manipulation with the phrase “enforcing benefits,” suggesting that these so-called improvements are imposed upon the farmers to distract them. By altering their routines and teaching them how to rest during the day, they unknowingly disrupt their traditional way of life, including their natural sleep patterns at night.
4. What is the ‘childish longing’ that the poet refers to? Why is it ‘vain’?
Ans: The Poet thinks that the men who are running the roadside stand suffer from a childish longing. They are always waiting for their prospective customers. They keep their windows open to attract them. But when none turn up they become sad. They always wait to hear the sound of brakes and stopping of an engine. But all those go in vain.
5. Which lines tell us about the insufferable pain that the poet feels at the thought of the plight of the rural poor?
Ans: Filled with empathy, the poet is unable to bear the plight of the unassuming and innocent rural people.
The lines below show his insufferable pain:
“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”
| TALK ABOUT IT |
Discuss in small groups.
The economic well-being of a country depends on a balanced development of the villages and the cities.
Ans: Students, do it yourself.
| TRY THIS OUT |
You could stop at a dhaba or a roadside eatery on the outskirts of your town or city to see:
1. How many travellers stop there to eat.
2. How many travellers stop for other reasons.
3. How the shopkeepers are treated.
4. The kind of business the shopkeepers do.
5. The kind of life they lead.
Ans: Students, do it yourself.
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