H.S 2ND YEAR POEM-5 A ROAD SIDE STAND
poet name: - Robert frost
DETAILED ANALYSIS OF THE POEM (IN ENGLISH)
In this poem, the poet expresses his anger at
the indifference of the rich and ruling to the fate of poor farmers and other
deprived communities. The sight of a
roadside stand to his mind the pitiable state of these people.
A little old house had a little new shed “outside
it. The shed was in the front at the road. It was built for use as a roadside
stand. The rich people in their magnificent car kept going up and down the road
all day. The poor owner of the stand sat by the open win his shed and waited for
some car to stop there and buy the things he had for sale. The poor fellow
waited all day but hardly any car stopped there.
If ever someone looked aside a moment, he felt
annoyed to see the artless paint of sign the stand. He felt that the stand with
its artless paint had marred the beauty of the land the poor man had made these
signs to indicate the things he had for sale at his stand. wild berries,
crook-necked squash or some picture of a beautiful mountain scene, But t man in
the car thought it below his dignity to stop there and buy something at such «
So he decided to keep his money with him and go along. The poor man, who had
thought the car would stop there; was left in sorrow. He had" put up his
roadside stand with the hope that he would earn some money from the city people
going that way, but all his hope was just like a motion picture that appears
before the eye and is then lost in no time.
The poet thinks of the selfish politicians who
fool these poor people with false promise would publish such news that the poor
would be mercifully settled close to cities where eve would be within their
reach. But the real purpose of these foxy politicians is to fill their own
coffers. The poet calls them greedy good-doers and beasts of prey. They swarm
over the lives of the poor and force on them benefits which are, in fact, their
own benefits. They pretend their well-wishers but, in fact, only exploit them.
They teach them how to sleep peaceful in fact, destroy all their sleep.
Thinking of the poor man at the roadside
stand, the poet feels pained. He says that bear to think that the poor man
keeps sitting at his open window all day waiting for s to stop there. He keeps
waiting sadly for the squeal of brakes or the sound of a. stopping car, but of
all the thousand cars that pass, just one stop there. And that too does not
stop anything. It stops there only to use the yard in front of the stand for
turning back. I this, it tears up some of the grass in the yard. Another stop
just to ask the way for its des another one stops to ask if it could have a
gallon of petrol. When told that there is n at the stand, it goes away crossly.
The poet feels pained to think that the
welfare of these poor farmers is never taken into by the rich ruling classes.
He says that it would give him great relief if these people can be taken out of
their pain and poverty at once. Instead of craving for help, they should be in
a position to help other.
कविता की विस्तृत
व्याख्या (हिन्दी में)
इस कविता में कवि गरीब किसानों और अन्य वंचित समुदायों के भाग्य और अमीरों के प्रति उदासीनता पर अपना गुस्सा व्यक्त करता है। सड़क के किनारे का दृश्य उनके दिमाग में इन लोगों की दयनीय स्थिति को दर्शाता है ।
एक छोटे से पुराने घर के बाहर की तरफ एक छोटा सा नया छप्पर
बना था। छप्पर
सामने की तरफ सड़क के किनारे पर था। इसे सड़क के किनारे स्टैंड के रूप में उपयोग के लिए बनाया गया था। अमीर लोग अपनी शानदार कारो में पूरा दिन भर इधर-इधर
आते-जाते रहते थे। स्टैंड का गरीब मालिक अपने छप्पर की खुली खिड़की
के पास बैठा रहता और किसी कार के वह रुकने की
चीजों को खरीदने की प्रतीक्षा करता
रहता जो उसके पास बेचने को होती थी।बेचारे आदमी पूरा दिन प्रतीक्षा
करता रहता लेकिन मुश्किल से ही कोई कार
वहा रूकती।
यदि कभी किसी ने सिर घुमा कर देखा,
तो वह स्टैंड पर बने बेढंगे (कलाहीन) पेंटिंग को देखकर चिढ़ जाता। उन्होंने
महसूस किया कि इसकी कलाहीन पेंट के साथ स्टैंड की सुंदरता को ख़राब कर दिया था।
गरीब आदमी ने इन चिन्हों को उन चीजों तरफ संकेत करने के लिए बनाया था जो उनके स्टैंड पर बिक्री के लिए थीं। | उसके पास जंगली जामुन, टेढ़ी गर्दन वाली लौकी,एक खूबसूरत पहाड़ के दृश्य की कुछ तस्वीर थी,
लेकिन लेकिन अमीर आदमी ने उस जगह से कोई चीज खरीदना अपनी शान निचे की बात समझी। इसीलिए उसने अपने पैसे अपने पास रखे औरवहा से जाने का फैसला किया। गरीब आदमी, जिसने सोचा था की कार वहाँ पर रुकेगी, दुःख में बैठा रह गया था। उसने सरक किनारे अपना स्टैंड इस आशा से बनाया था की वह
उस रस्ते से गुजरने वाले शहरी लोगो से कुछ पैसे कमा सके, लेकिन उसकी सभी आशाएं चल-चित्र सामान थी जो आँख के सामने आती है और फिर पल में
गायब हो जाती है।
कवि स्वार्थी राजनेताओं के बारे में सोचता है, जो इन गरीबों को झूठे वादे के साथ बेवकूफ बनाते हैं, ऐसी खबरें प्रकाशित करते हैं कि गरीबों को दया के साथ उन शहरों के करीब बसाया जाएगा जहां उनकी पहुंच के भीतर हर चीज मिलेगी । लेकिन इन लोमड़ी राजनेताओं का असली उद्देश्य वें अपनी तिजोरियों (ताबूतों) को भरना है। कवि उन्हें लालची समाज सेवी और शिकार जानवर कहता है। वे गरीबों लोगो के जीवन पर छाए रहते है और उन लाभों पर लाद देते हैं जो वास्तव में, उनके अपने लाभ हैं। वे उनके शुभचिंतक होने का नाटक करते हैं, लेकिन वास्तव में, केवल उनका शोषण करते हैं। वे उन्हें सिखाते हैं कि वास्तव में किस तरह शांतिपूर्वक सोया जाय
लेकिन वास्तव में उनकी सब नींद को नस्ट कर देते है।
सड़क किनारे बने स्टैंड पर गरीब आदमी के जीवन के बारे में सोचकर कवि को पीड़ा होती है। वह कहता है कि यह सोचने के लिए कि गरीब आदमी पूरे दिन अपनी खुली खिड़की पर बैठा रहता है, किसी कार की वहाँ रुकने का इंतज़ार करता है। वह उदास होकर किसी
कार की ब्रेको की आवाज सुनने के लिए या किसी कार की वहा रुकने की आवाज सुनने के
लिए इंतज़ार करता रहता है। लेकिन सब हजार कारों में से जो जो वहा से गुजरती है, बस कोई एक वहा रूकती है। खरीदने के लिए नहीं रूकती है। वह सिर्फ अपनी कारो को घुमाने के लिए रूकती है। ऐसा करने
से वहाँ के आंगन उगी हुई
घास उखाड़ देती है। और कोई रूकती तो बस अपना रास्ता पूछने के लिए रूकती है। और कोई रूकती है तो ये पूछने के लिए रुकता है कि क्या यहाँ पेट्रोल का गैलन हो सकता है जब बताया जाता है कि स्टैंड पर नहीं है, तो चिढ़ कर यहाँ चले जाते है ।
कवि को यह सोचकर पीड़ा होती है कि इन गरीब किसानों की भलाई को शासन करने वाले धनि लोग के द्वारा कभी ध्यान में
नहीं रखा जाता है। वह कहता है कि इससे उसे बड़ी राहत मिलेगी अगर लोगो को तुरंत गरीबी और पीड़ा
से बाहर निकला जा सके।सहायता के लिए याचना
मांगने बजाए उन्हें खुद दुसरो के मदद कर
पाएंगे।
Very
Short-Answer Type Questions
Q.1.
Where was the new shed put up? What was its purpose?
Ans
:- It was put up in front of an old
house at the edge of the road . It was put up to sell some cheap things.
Q.2.Why
does the poet use the word ‘pathetic’?
Ans:- The poet uses this word to underline the poverty
and misery of the people living in the countryside .
Q.3.
Who are referred to as ‘the flower of cities’? 2018
Ans:- The rich people of the city life have been referred
to as ‘the flower of cities
Q.4.
What thing was offered for sale? Or what are the two things were sold in that
stand? 2013, 2017
Ans
:- Wild berries and crook-necked squash
were offered for sale .
Q.5. What was
thought to mar the landscape?
Ans:-
The artless paint of signs on the
roadside stand was thought to mar the beauty of the landscape .
Q.6.
How did one who looked aside a moment feel?
Ans
:- He felt irritated that the beauty
of the landscape had been marred .
Q.7.
Who have been referred to as ‘pitiful kin’?
Ans
:- The poor farmers and other
deprived classes have been referred to as ‘pitiful kin”.
Q.8.
Who will be bought out and from where?
Ans
:- The poor farmers will be paid for
their small holdings and taken away from there to be settled in villages close
to the cities .
Q.9. What is in the news?
Q.9. What is in the news?
Ans
:- It is in the news that the poor
will be settled in villages close to the cities .
Q.10.
How will it help them to be near the theatre and the store?
Ans
:- It is said that then they would
not have to think for themselves .
Q.11. Who have been
called ‘greedy good – doers’?
Ans:-
The selfish rich people who pretend
to be worried about the poor are called ‘ greedy good- doers’ .
Q.12. Why are
benefits enforced on the poor?
Ans
:- Benefits are enforced on the poor
so that the real advantage of these benefits reaches the rich themselves in the
end.
Q.13.
What do ‘beneficent beasts of prey ‘do?
Ans:- They make a show of helping the poor but , in fact ,
exploit them for their own benefit .
Q.14.
What are the poor taught to do?
Ans :- They
are taught to sleep peacefully at night , but in fact , all their sleep at
night is robbed while the rich sleep peacefully all day .
Q.15. What can the
poet not bear?
Ans
:- He can’t bear the thought of poor
man waiting all day for some car to stop at his stand .
Q.16.
Why have the cars been called selfish?
Ans:- The cars have been called selfish because none of
them cares to think of poor farmer’s longing .
Q.17.
What does the poor man wait for?
Ans:- He waits for
squeal of brakes or for the sound of a stopping car .
Q.18. What gives
sadness and to whom?
Ans:- The poor farmer keeps sitting all day at his open
window but none of the thousand cars
passing that way stops at his
stand . It leaves the poor man in sadness.
Q.19.
Why did the first of the cars stop there?
Ans:-
It stopped there to use the yard in
order to turn back.
Q.20.
What made it cross?
Ans:-
It was cross when told that there was
no gas at the stand.
Q.21.
Why did the second one stop there?
Ans:-
It stopped there to ask the way to
where it was bound.
Q.22.
why did the third one stop at the stand?
Ans:-
It stopped there to use the yard in order to
turn back.
Q.23.
What attraction does the place offer?
Ans:- It is some picture of a beautiful mountain scene.
Q.24.
What do you think is the real worry of the poet? 2013
Ans:-
The real worry of the poet is about
the poor man who has put up the roadside stand but the rich never buy anything
from there.
Q.25.
What does the poet not complain about?
2013
Ans:-
He would not complain about the hurt
to the scenery.
Q.26.
What should one do if one wants to be mean? What should one do if one wants to
be mean? 2012
Ans:-
He should keep his money and go along
his way without buying anything from the roadside stand.
Q.27.
Explain the phrase ‘the requisite lift of spirit ‘.
Ans:-
The poor need a better treatment at
the hands of the rich ruling classes. But this life of the spirit has not been
found so far.
Q.28.
What is the party in power doing for the rural poor?
Ans:- They make false promise to get their vote and exploit
them during their whole life.
Q.29.
What could give the poet great relief?
2018
Ans:-
He could get a great relief if the
poor could be brought out of their pain at one stroke.
Q.30.
What does the voice of the country complain? Or what does the voice of the
country people seem to say? 2018
Ans:- The voice of the country complains that nothing
substantial has been done to improve their lot.
Q.31.
Why do the people who are running the roadside stand ask for some city money?
Ans:- To improve their standard of living.
SHORT-ANSWER
TYPE QUESTIONS
Q.1
What was the plea of the folk who had put up the roadside?
Ans:- Those who had put up the roadside stands were poor
farmers .They hoped to earn some money from the rich city people who kept going
up and down in their cars all day. They did not want any dole of bread from
them .They wanted only some money in return for the things they had to sell.
Q.2.What
is the ‘childish longing ‘that the poet refers to? Why is it ‘vain’? 2012, 2017
Ans
:-The poor farmer keeps waiting all day for some car to
stop at his stand. But hardly any car stops there. With a longing heart, he
keeps sitting by the open window and waiting all day. His longing proves vain
when no one comes to buy the things he has put up for sale.
Q.3.
Why do the people who are running the roadside stand ‘ask for some city
money’ 2013,2015
Ans:-
The people who are running the
roadside stand ‘ask for some city money, because he wants to earn some money
for the city people to change their live and change their living standard and
earn some money for taking meal.
Q.4.Where was
the roadside stand put up and what for?
Ans:-
The stand was in the shape of a
little new shed . It was built in front of an old little house .It was at the
edge of the road .A lot of fast traffic went that way. The poor owner of the
stand had some little things to sell. He hoped to earn a little money by
selling these things.
Q.5.
What does the poet say about the polished traffic?
Ans:- The rich people had polished or magnificent cars.
They drove with their eyes fixed forward. If ever anyone looked aside, he felt
irritated. He was irritated to see the artless way in which the shed had been
painted.
Q.6.
Which thing irritated the passers-by who stopped at the road-side stand? 2018
Or
How
did the travelers on the highways reach to the road side stand? 2019
Ans:-
Thousand of cars passed that way but
unfortunately some car to stop there and if ever someone looked aside a moment
they irritated to see the artless paint. He feels that the artless paint
merged/spoiled the beauty of the landscape.
Q.7.
What were the various thing put up at the stand for sale? 2013, 2017
Ans:-
The stand offered for sale wild
berries. They were put in wooden quarts. Then there were crook-necked golden
squash .They had on their body silvery warts. Or, they had some picture of a
beautiful mountain scene.
Q.8.
Why did no one stop to buy at the roadside stand?
Ans:- People in the car had money in their pockets. Yet
they did not stop at the stand to buy anything. They thought it means to stop
at such a place shop there. So they kept the money in their pockets and moved
away.
Q.9.
Who will soothe the rural poor out of their wits and how? 2016
Ans:-
The foxy politicians who fool the
poor people with big/false promises but never do anything real for them. They
would published such news that the poor would be mercifully settled close to
the cities where everything’s would be within their reach. But the real purpose
of them foxy politicians is to fill their own coffers.
Q.10.
What was it that pained the poet?
Ans:- The poet saw how the poor man kept waiting for some
car to stop at his stand. Thousands of cars passed that way but none stopped
thereto buy anything. Each car left the poor man waiting in sorrow. it was this
pathetic wait that pained the poet.
Q.11.
What was the complaint about ‘the artless paint of sign’?
Ans:- The stand-owner had got his shed painted. He had
put up a few things for sale. He had made some signs in paint to indicate the
things he had for sale. But the rich men going in their cars would say that the
beauty of the landscape had been marred by the artless paint
Q.12.
What has been in the news? Or What was in the news as has been portrayed in the
poem “The road side stand”? 2015
Ans:-
There are all sorts of false promises
in the news. It is in the news that the poor farmers will be paid for their
small holdings and settled in villages near the cities. They are assured that
they won’t have to worry about themselves. But in fact, such assurances are
just to fool poor.
Q.13.
What does the poet says about the ‘greedy good-doers’ and ‘beneficent beasts of
prey’?
Ans:-
The poet calls the foxy politicians
‘greedy good –doers ‘ and ‘beneficent beasts of prey ‘. These people fool the
poor with their false promises. They take away all the peace and sleep of the
poor while they themselves sleep during the day even.
Q.14.How
does the poet mention some of the cars that stop at the stand?
Or
‘Of
all the thousand selfish cars’ some stop there but not for buying something.
why do they stop there at all”? 2016
Ans:-
One of the cars stops there just to
turn back. Another one stops to ask the way to its destination. A third one to
stops to ask if it can have a gallon of petrol.
Q.15.
Why does Robert frost sympathies with the rural poor?
Ans:-
The poet sees how the poor man keeps
waiting for some car to stop at his stand. Thousands of cars pass that way but
none stops there to buy anything. The poor villager is left waiting in sorrow. His
plight fills Robert frost with sympathy for the helpless rural poor.
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