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About the poet

Robert Frost (1874-1963) is a highly
American poet of the twentieth century. Robertacclaimed
Wrote about characters, people and Frost
poems are concerned with human landscapes. His
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, Birches, Mending
his well-known poems. In the walls are a few of
poem
Frost presents the lives of poor A Roadside Stand,
with pitiless clarity and with the deprived people
and humanity)’ Cebae idoa deepest sympathy
Before you read
Have yOu ever stopped at a roadside
observed there? stand? What have you

The little old house was out

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In front at the edge of the with a little new sheda
A roadside stand that too road where the traffic sped,a
It would not be fair to say pathetically pled, a
for a dofe ofbread, a
But for some of the money, the cash,
The flower, of whose flow supports
cities from
The D o l i s H t sinking and withering faint.
traffic passed with amhd ahead,
ah
Or if everasidela moment, then
out of sorts
At having the landscape
marred with the artless paint
Of signs that with N turned wrong and S
'roy
Offered for sale wild berries in wooden turned wrong
quarts, tontainurs (woadi).
Or crook-necked golden squash with silver warts,
Or beauty rest in a beautiful mountain scene,
You have the money, but if yQu yyant to be mean,
S.luag
Why keep your money (this crossl)'and go along.
The hurt to the scenery wouldn't be ny complaint
 So much as the trusting sorrow of what is unsaid:)
Here far from the city we make our roadside stand
And ask for some city money to feel in hand
To try if it will not make our bejng expand,
And give us the life of the movihgpíctures' promise
That the party in power is said to be keeping from us.
talked abnt eling Pay
It is in the hews that all thse pitiful kin
Are to be bought oi and merciiully gathered in
To live in villages, next to the theatre and the store,
Where they won't have tÍ think for, themselves anymorea
oXymoon, Whlle greedy good-doers.
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of preypeasot
actration. Swarm over their lives enforcifig 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.
Sometimes Ifeel myself I can h¡rdyear ube no
The thought of so, much childish lohging
lohgin in Kain,
sadness that lutks near the open window there,
That wajts all day in almost open prayer
For the Squeal of brakes, the sound of a
OT all the thousand selfsh pKHP3 Ca,
pass,
Just one to inquire what a farmer's prices are.
And one did stop, but only to plow up grass
In using the yard to back and turn
And another to ask the way to wherearound;asked dinckoo
it was bound; N
And another to ask couldpetolthey sell it a osalon of gas dehnati
They couldn't (this crossly); they had none, didn't it see?
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No, in countty money, the country scale of gain, so
mecesar4/
The requisite lift of s5nfh has never been found,
Or so the voice of the country seems to complain,
Ican't help owning the great relief it would
To put these people at one stroke out of theirbeTo lea
pain. wo ol
And then next day as I come back into the saûe, ny
Iwonder how Ishould like SOL Ocome to me
And offer to put me gently out of my pain.
quarts : bottles or containers
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squash : a kind of vegetable (gourd)

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weddliy Adrienne Rich (1929-2012) was born in Baltimore,
Maryland, USA. She is widely known for her involvement
in contemporary women's movement as a poet and
theorist. She has published nineteen volumes of poetry,
three collections of essays and other writings. A strong
resistance to racism and militarism echoes through her
work. The poem Aunt Jennifer's Tigers addresses the
constraints of married life a woman experiences.
Hustaectios
(ed - Sopphler Before you read
blue What does the title of the poem suggest to you? Are you
Teen-eMavald reminded of other poems on tigers?
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ppearameAunt Jennifer's
atttude)Brightfonsntigérs prahce across a screen, poml, oot

Characer geoThey do not

denizens of a wOrldof
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the men beneath theA tree; b
(They pace in sleek chivalric certainty. b
Aunt Jennifer's fingers fluttering through her wool
Csidene
ental a Find even the ivory needle hard Hara tO pull.
Thee mássíve Weight of Uncle's weádingbanda
Sits heavily upon Aunt Jennifer's hand. çddi
Aunt Ternfo
VorbwswiA
When_ Aunt is dead, hert A S AlieK
Still rnged with ordeals she was mastered_by.
The tigers in the panel that she made2rep t
Will go on prancing, proud and unafrald.
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denizen : a person, an animal or a plant that lives, grows
or is often found in a particular place.
sleek :elegant
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