Question

1. Complete the following with the help of the lines of the
poem.
When I ask you to listen to me, you start doing -​

Answer 1

Answer:

When I ask you to listen to me

and you start giving me advice,

you have not done what I asked.

When I ask you to listen to me

and you begin to tell me why

I shouldn’t feel that way,

you are trampling on my feelings.

When I ask you to listen to me

and you feel you have to do something

to solve my problem,

you have failed me,

strange as that may seem.

Listen! All I ask is that you listen.

Don’t talk or do – just hear me.

Advice is cheap; 20 cents will get

you both Dear Abby and Billy Graham

in the same newspaper.

And I can do for myself; I am not helpless.

Maybe discouraged and faltering,

but not helpless.

When you do something for me that I can

and need to do for myself,

you contribute to my fear and

inadequacy.

But when you accept as a simple fact

that I feel what I feel,

no matter how irrational,

then I can stop trying to convince

you and get about this business

of understanding what’s behind

this irrational feeling.

And when that’s clear, the answers are

obvious and I don’t need advice.

Irrational feelings make sense when

we understand what’s behind them.

Perhaps that’s why prayer works, sometimes,

for some people – because God is mute,

and he doesn’t give advice or try

to fix things.

God just listens and lets you work

it out for yourself.

So please listen, and just hear me.

And if you want to talk, wait a minute

for your turn – and I will listen to you.

Answer 2

Poem- When I ask you to listen to me.

EXPLANATION:

When I Ask You To Listen To Me

And you start doing me advice,

You have not accomplished what I requested.

When I ask you to listen to me

and you start to inform me why

I shouldn’t sense that way,

you are trampling on my emotions.

When I ask you to listen to me

and also you sense you have to do something

to remedy my problem,

you've got failed me,

odd as that can appear.

Listen! All I ask is that you listen.

Don’t speak or do, just hear me.

And I can do for myself; I am not helpless.

Maybe discouraged and faltering,

however not helpless.

When you do some thing for me that I can and want to do for myself,

you contribute to my worry and Inadequacy.

But while you take delivery of as a simple truth

That I sense what I sense,

No count number how irrational,

Then I can forestall seeking to convince

You and get about this commercial enterprise

Of know-how what’s in the back of

This irrational feeling.

And while that’s clean, the answers are apparent and I don’t want advice.

Irrational feelings make experience while

we understand what’s behind them.

So please listen, and just pay attention to me.

And if you need to talk, wait a minute

to your turn, and I will pay attention to you.