13. A Roadside Stand 1.pptx

English class 12th chapter 13
Class 12th chapter 13th A Roadside Stand
Class 12th english
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English class 12th Vistas
CHAPTER 12th

1. PPT Prepared by T. Velayudhan , PGT English, JNV Chittoor , AP.

2. A Roadside Stand by Robert Frost

3. Robert Frost (1874-1963) is a highly acclaimed American poet of the twentieth century. Robert Frost wrote about characters, people and landscapes. His poems are concerned with human tragedies and fears, his reaction to the complexities of life and his ultimate acceptance of his burdens. Stopping by the Woods on a Snowy Evening, Birch es, Mending Walls are a few of his well-known poems. complexities = intricacies birch = a slender deciduous tree or shrub of N temperate and Arctic regions, with smooth silvery-white bark that often peels off in long papery strips. Deciduous = seasonally shed leaves

4. In the poem A Roadside Stand, Frost presents the lives of poor deprived people with pitiless clarity and with the deepest sympathy and humanity . deprived = poor

5. Before you read Have you ever stopped at a roadside stand? What have you observed there?

6. The little old house was out with a little new shed

7. In front at the edge of the road where the traffic sped , sped = moved quickly

8. A roadside stand that too pathetically pled , pathetically = sadly pled = past tense, past participle of PLEAD - appealed earnestly Figure of Speech(In this line) = Personification ( the attribution of a personal nature or human characteristics to something non-human, or the representation of an abstract quality in human form.) Pathetically pled = Alliteration (the occurrence of the same letter or sound at the beginning of adjacent or closely connected words.)

9. It would not be fair to say for a dole of bread , dole = piece; slice

10. But for some of the money, the cash, whose flow supports The flower of cities from sinking and withering faint . flower = prosperity ( Flower of city : lavish lifestyle and richness of city dwellers) sinking and withering faint = drying and becoming lifeless (from going down and losing its glamour. Prosperity of the city will decline without money)

11. The polished traffic passed with a mind ahead, polished traffic = the well off and sophisticated city folk pass in their lavish vehicles Figure of speech of ‘Polished traffic’ is Transferred epithet. Transferred epithet  is when an adjective usually used to describe one thing is  transferred  to another. An  epithet  is a word or phrase which describes the main quality of someone or something.

12. Or if ever aside a moment, then out of sorts out of sorts = irritated

13. At having the landscape marred with the artless paint marred = spoiled artless = clumsy; awkward

14. Of signs that with N turned wrong and S turned wrong

15. Offered for sale wild berries in wooden quarts , Or crook-necked golden squash with silver wart s, quarts = bottles or containers squash = a kind of vegetable [gourd] wart = lump; growth

16. Or beauty rest in a beautiful mountain scene,

17. You have the money, but if you want to be mean , Why keep your money (this crossly ) and go along. mean = not generous crossly = angrily

18. The hurt to the scenery wouldn’t be my complaint So much as the trusting sorrow of what is unsaid : trusting sorrow of what is unsaid = poet is worried about those sorrows of these people which have remained unsaid

19. Here far from the city we make our roadside stand And ask for some city money to feel in hand

20. To try if it will not make our being expand , And give us the life of the moving-pictures’ promise That the party in power is said to be keeping from us . expand = make bigger moving pictures’ promise = the movies the poor people have watched are full of promises for them. In those movies they saw people who journeyed from poverty to prosperity (Moving pictures: Luxurious, advanced lifestyle projected in T.V or movies) keeping from us = indifferent to rural people and their demands

21. It is in the news that all these pitiful kin Are to be bought out and mercifully gathered in To live in villages, next to the theatre and the store, Where they won’t have to think for themselves anymore, pitiful = pathetic kin = nearest and dearest mercifully = happily

22. While greedy good-doers, beneficent beasts of prey, Swarm over their lives enforcing benefits That are calculated to soothe them out of their wits, And by teaching them how to sleep they sleep all day, Destroy their sleeping at night the ancient way. greedy = insatiable; hungry beneficent = generous beasts of prey = animals that hunt other animals for food swarm = crowd enforcing = putting in force ; imposing calculated = planned soothe = calm; appease wits = intelligence Figure of speech in ‘greedy good-doers’ and ‘beneficent beasts of prey’ is Alliteration

23. Sometimes I feel myself I can hardly bear The thought of so much childish longing in vain , childish longing = the poor people’s uncertain and futile expectation for the city money vain = futile

24. The sadness that lurks near the open window there, That waits all day in almost open prayer For the squeal of brakes, the sound of a stopping car, Of all the thousand selfish cars that pass, Just one to inquire what a farmer’s prices are. lurks = lies hidden Selfish cars = Cars are referred to as selfish as the owners of the cars do not understand their suffering and so they do not contribute in enhancing their financial status. Selfish cars = A  transferred epithet  is a little known—but often used—figure of speech in which a modifier (usually an adjective) qualifies a noun other than the person or thing it is actually describing Figure of speech in the first line is Personification.

25. And one did stop, but only to plow up grass In using the yard to back and turn around; And another to ask the way to where it was bound; And another to ask could they sell it a gallon of gas They couldn’t (this crossly); they had none, didn’t it see? plow up = turn over

26. No, in country money, the country scale of gain , The requisite lift of spirit has never been found, Or so the voice of the country seems to complain, I can’t help owning the great relief it would be To put these people at one stroke out of their pain. country = rural area scale = level gain = something gained, eg profit requisite = necessary

27. And then next day as I come back into the sane , I wonder how I should like you to come to me And offer to put me gently out of my pain. sane = sensible; normal