Read the following lines from 'In the Country' and answer the questions
that follow.
Can I admire the statue great,
When living men starve at its feet?
Can I admire the park’s green tree,
A roof for homeless misery?
When I can see few men in need,
I then have power to help by deed,
Nor lose my cheerfulness in pity-
Which I must do in every city.
For when I am in those great places,
I see ten thousand suffering faces;
Before me stares a wolfish eye.
Behind me creeps a groan or sigh.
1. What attitude of the poet is revealed here?
2. Write the rhyme scheme followed in the stanzas.
3. Pick out the line that conveys the intensity of suffering faces.
4. What does the expression ‘wolfish eye’ signify?
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