NCERT Solutions for Class 12 English Flamingo Poetry Chapter 5- A Roadside Stand

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Text Book Questions :-

Think :

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 lines that tell us this are :
‘The polished traffic passed with a mind ahead,
Or if ever aside a moment, then out of sorts.....
.....with N turned wrong and S turned wrong.’
Their complaint was that unimpressed and wrongly painted signboards ruined the picturesque beauty of the
landscape
What was the plea of the folk who had put up the roadside stand ?
Ans. The stand-owners did not want a charity of bread but they wanted city people to buy some of their produce which they have put up for sale so that they could get some money and improve their situation.
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. Greedy good-doers, beneficent beasts of prey, enforcing benefits etc, are some words and phrases that the poet uses to show the double standards of the city people. These so called benefactors exploit the innocent villagers by bringing new plans to help them and take the advantage of their property. They promise them many things and snatch the poor villagers’ land. They silence them with a well-planned strategy and befool
them.
What is the ‘childish longing’ that the poet refers to? Why is it ‘vain’?Ans. The poet refers to the ‘innocent desire’ and ‘patient wait’ for some car of a city-traveller to stop and give them an opportunity to make some money. But mostly if they stop, it is to ask the way or to take a turn or at most, to ask what are the former’s prices for the produce. So their desire to make money goes in vain.