Given below are a few references to contextual questions and their suggested answers based on Robert Frost's Poem, A Roadside Stand :
1. Lines 1 to 6
"The little...faint."
1. Where was the roadside stand located?
2. What was the roadside stand pleading for?
3. What figure of speech is presented in the words, "flower of cities"?
4. How is the flower of cities prevented from fainting?
2. Lines 7 to 12
The polished traffic...silver warts"
1. What does the "polished traffic" represent? What figure of speech is it?
2. Describe the attitude of the "polished traffic" with reference to the above lines.
3. What had marred the landscape according to the people driving by?
4. Prepare a list of the objects being sold in the roadside stand.
Lines 13 to 18
3. "Or Beauty...stand."
1. What is beautiful according to the first line of the extract?
2. Who is "You" in the second line and how is "You" mean?
3. How is the roadside stand's owner's complaint greater than that of the people who drive by?
4. How is the term, "trusting sorrow" an antithesis, what does it highlight?
4. Lines 19 to 24
"And ask...gathered in".
1. What do the people at the roadside stand long for?
2. Explain, "our being expand".
3. What is "moving-pictures' promise"?
4. What is the Party in power "keeping from us"? Who is "us"?
5. What is in the "news"?
6. How is the word, "mercifully gathered" ironical?
5. Lines 25 to 31
To live in...ancient way."
1. What will the relocated people be provided with, in the new village? Will they really help?
2. What does the poet mean by the statement, "where they won't have to think for themselves anymore"?
3. Identify the two figures of speech used in line 27.
4. Explain, "enforcing benefits".
5. What does the phrase, "calculated to soothe them out of their wits" mean?
6. How do the politicians "Destroy their sleeping at night the ancient way"? What does the "ancient way" refer to?
6. Lines 32 to 37
1. What is it that he can "hardly bear"?
2. Whose "childish longing" does the poet refer to?
3. Which figure of speech has the poet used in the line, "The sadness that lurks near the open window"?
4. What is their "open prayer" for?
5. Why are the cars that pass by said to be "selfish"?
7. Lines 38 to 43
"And one did stoop...see?"
1. Why did one of the cars stop?
2. What figure of speech has the poet used in, "And another to ask the way to where...."?
3. Why did the car want a "gallon of gas"?
4. What was it that the cars "didn't see?"
8. Lines 44 to 51
"No, in country...my pain."
1. What does the poet mean by the lines, "No, in country money, the country scale of gain, the requisite lift of spirit has never been found"?
2. Why does the "voice of the country" seem to "complain"? What is the nature of complaint?
3. How does the poet feel in the above extract?
4. What would give the poet "great relief"?
5. Why does the poet have a change of heart?
For the answers click on the link given below:
https://rodrickwrites.blogspot.com/2019/03/a-roadside-stand-analyzing-robert.html
1. Lines 1 to 6
"The little...faint."
1. Where was the roadside stand located?
2. What was the roadside stand pleading for?
3. What figure of speech is presented in the words, "flower of cities"?
4. How is the flower of cities prevented from fainting?
2. Lines 7 to 12
The polished traffic...silver warts"
1. What does the "polished traffic" represent? What figure of speech is it?
2. Describe the attitude of the "polished traffic" with reference to the above lines.
3. What had marred the landscape according to the people driving by?
4. Prepare a list of the objects being sold in the roadside stand.
Lines 13 to 18
3. "Or Beauty...stand."
1. What is beautiful according to the first line of the extract?
2. Who is "You" in the second line and how is "You" mean?
3. How is the roadside stand's owner's complaint greater than that of the people who drive by?
4. How is the term, "trusting sorrow" an antithesis, what does it highlight?
4. Lines 19 to 24
"And ask...gathered in".
1. What do the people at the roadside stand long for?
2. Explain, "our being expand".
3. What is "moving-pictures' promise"?
4. What is the Party in power "keeping from us"? Who is "us"?
5. What is in the "news"?
6. How is the word, "mercifully gathered" ironical?
5. Lines 25 to 31
To live in...ancient way."
1. What will the relocated people be provided with, in the new village? Will they really help?
2. What does the poet mean by the statement, "where they won't have to think for themselves anymore"?
3. Identify the two figures of speech used in line 27.
4. Explain, "enforcing benefits".
5. What does the phrase, "calculated to soothe them out of their wits" mean?
6. How do the politicians "Destroy their sleeping at night the ancient way"? What does the "ancient way" refer to?
6. Lines 32 to 37
1. What is it that he can "hardly bear"?
2. Whose "childish longing" does the poet refer to?
3. Which figure of speech has the poet used in the line, "The sadness that lurks near the open window"?
4. What is their "open prayer" for?
5. Why are the cars that pass by said to be "selfish"?
7. Lines 38 to 43
"And one did stoop...see?"
1. Why did one of the cars stop?
2. What figure of speech has the poet used in, "And another to ask the way to where...."?
3. Why did the car want a "gallon of gas"?
4. What was it that the cars "didn't see?"
8. Lines 44 to 51
"No, in country...my pain."
1. What does the poet mean by the lines, "No, in country money, the country scale of gain, the requisite lift of spirit has never been found"?
2. Why does the "voice of the country" seem to "complain"? What is the nature of complaint?
3. How does the poet feel in the above extract?
4. What would give the poet "great relief"?
5. Why does the poet have a change of heart?
For the answers click on the link given below:
https://rodrickwrites.blogspot.com/2019/03/a-roadside-stand-analyzing-robert.html
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