A ROAD SIDE STAND ! Important Questions and Answers

A-ROADSIDE-STAND- POEM- IMPORTANT- QUESTIONS- AND ANSWERS

A ROAD SIDE STAND       

                                                                                                        (ROBERT FORST)

                     

                * IMPORTANT ( COMMON ) QUESTIONS:-*

A. Very short answer Questions.

Q1. Who is the poet of the poem, “ A ROADSIDE STAND” ?

Ans:- Robert Forst is the poet of the poem, “ A ROADSIDE STAND”.

Q2. What is a  Roadside  stand ?

Ans:-“ A ROADSIDE STAND” is a small shop by the road side in the outskirts owned by poor people.

Q3.  Where is the little new stand ?

Ans:- The little new shed is built in the front at the edge of the road where traffic pass by.

Q4. Why is the word ‘pathetic’ used for the roadside stand ?

Ans:- The word ‘pathetic’  is used to show the miserable living condition of the roadside stand owners.

Q5. What does the Forst writes about in his poem ?

Ans:- Robert forst writes about characters, people and landscapes in his poems.

Q6. Name two of his well known Poems ?

Ans:- “Stoping by the Woods on a Snowy Evening’  and   ‘Mending Walls’ are two of his Well-known poems.

Q7. Who are the referred to as the flower of cities ?

Ans:- The best things in the city are referred to as ‘flower of cities.

Q8. Why does one turn “out of sort’s” ?

Ans. A person turn “out of sort’s” when he waits near the Roadside stand.The building was painted clumsily .The sight of the building with artless paint spoilt the land and thus the beautiful mountain seen is spoilt.

Q9.What are begin sold in that Roadside stand ?

Ans. Wild berries and golden squash are the two things that are sold on the Roadside Stand .

Q10. Why do the people running the Roadside Stand ask for some city money?

Ans:- The people running the Roadside Stand ask for some city money because the follow of money their lives  will help them to raise their standard of living .

(B). Long Answer type Questions:-

Q1. What is the poet’s childish longing  ? Why is it in vain ?

Ans:- The poet thinks that the person who are running the Roadside Stand, Suffer from a childish longing. They are always expecting customer and waiting for their prospective customers all day long. They keep there windows open the attract them. They became sad went no on terms of .They keep on waiting to here squeal of brakes , the sound of a stopping car . But all their efforts are in event because no customers turn up .The poet could not bear this pain of the people.

Q2. Why do car stop by , if do they stop at all at the road side stand ?

Ans:- Sometimes a car stops near the Roadside Stand only to use the yard to back and turned round the car . At other times one stops to ask if they can sell a gallon of gas. The purpose of these ‘Selfish cars’ is not to buy something. They stop here only to serve their own interests.

Solved Extracts for comprehension Read the following extracts and answer the questions that follow:-

 (C).  The little old house was out with a little new shed, In front at the edge of the road, where the traffic sped, A roadside stand that too pathetically pled, It would not be fair to say for a dale of bread, But for some of the money, the cash, whose flow supports The following of cities from sinking and withering faint

Q1. (i) Why had a new shed put up by the occupants of the little old house?

 Ans- The occupatnts of the little old house had put up the new shed to extend their area.

Q2. (ii) What is the purpose of the shed ?

Ans- The purpose of the shed is that the passengers would stop and buy something from them or even stop and rest in the beautiful mountainscape.

(D).   It in the news that all these pitiful kin Are to be bought out and mercifully gathered in To live in village, next to the theatre and the store, Where they won’t have to think for themselves anymore.  Q(1). (i) What does the news proclaim ?

 Ans- The news proclaims that the land of the villagers will be purchased by some developers, of the city. Q(2). (ii) Who do these pitiful kin refer to ? Why will they be mercifully gathered in ?

 Ans- These pitiful kin refers to the villagers who have been deprived of their home and land.they will be mercifully gathered in to live in villages near the theatre and store.

 Q(3). (iii) Where will one see thesepoor villagers ?

Ans- One will see these poor villagers near the theatre and the store in the vicinity of the towns.

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