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Unit 17: Explanation of Unseen Passages in Verse

17.2 Review Questions Notes

1. Read the passage given below and explain the following lines:
[Hints: Poem-Basben Adhem, Poet, Ogden Nash.]
My fellow man I do not care for.
I often ask me. What’s he there for?
The only answer I can find
Is, Reproduction of his kind.
If I’m supposed to swallow that,
Winnetka is my habitat.
Isn’t it time to carve Hic Jacet
Above that Reproduction racket?
To make the matter more succinct;
Suppose my fellow man extinct.
Why, who would not approve the plan
Save possibly my fellow man?
Yet with a politician’s voice
He names himself as Nature’s choice.
2. Read the poem given below and Explain the following lines:
[Hints: Poem-Mending Mall, Poet-Robert Frost]
Something there is that doesn’t love a wall.
That sends the frozen-ground-swell under it,
And spills the upper boulders in the sun,
And makes gaps even two can pass abreast.
The work of hunters is another thing:
I have come after them and made repair
Where they have left not one stone on a stone,
But they would have the rabbit out of hiding,
To please the yelping dogs. The gaps I mean,
No one has seen them made or heard them made,
But at spring mending-time we find them there.
I let my neighbour know beyond the hill
And on a day we meet to walk the line
And set the wall between us once again.
We keep the wall between us as we go.
To each the boulders that have fallen to each.
And some are loaves and some so nearly balls
We have to use a spell to make them balance:
‘Stay where you are until our backs are turned!’
We wear our fingers rough with handling them.
Oh, just another kind of out-door game,
One on a side. It comes to little more:
3. Read the poem given below and explain the following lines:
I wandered lonely as a cloud
That floats on high o’er vales and hills,
When all at once I saw a crowd,

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