Read the following lines from 'In the Country' and answer the questions
that follow.
This life is sweetest; in the wood
I hear no children cry for food;
I see no woman, white with care;
No man, with muscles wasting here.
No doubt it is a selfish thing
To fly from human suffering;
No doubt he is a selfish man,
Who shuns poor creatures sad and wan.
But it’s a wretched life to face
Hunger in almost every place;
Cursed with a hand that’s empty, when
The heart is full to help all men.
1. Do you agree with the poet’s view about the life in a town? Why?
2. Write the rhyme scheme followed in the stanzas.
3. Why do people run away from human sufferings?
4. What does the expression ‘wretched life’ imply?
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