Question

I wish I lived in a caravan,
With a horse to drive, like the pedlar man!
Where he comes from nobody knows,
Or where he goes to, but on he goes!

His caravan has windows, two,
And a chimney of tin, that the smoke comes through;
He has a wife, with a baby brown,
And they go riding from town to town!

"Chairs to mend and delf to sell!"
He clashes the basins like a bell;
Tea-trays, baskets, ranged in order,
Plates with the alphabet round the border!

The roads are brown and the sea is green,
But his house is just like a bathing machine;
The world is round and he can ride,
Rumble and splash to the other side!

With the pedlar-man I should like to roam,
And write a book when I came home;
All the people would read my book,
Just like the Travels of Captain Cook!


question

why do you think the poet want to accompany the pedlar man ?

Answer 1

The poet wants to roam with the pedlar and write a book about his adventure so that the people would read his book, just like the ‘Travels of Captain Cook.’

Answer 2

The poet wants to accompany the peddler man because:

• The poet thinks that the peddler lives an adventurous life.
• He would like to roam and experience the adventures of the peddler.
• He wants to document the events in his book.
• The poet wants to ride around the world with the peddler man. He wants to visit many towns so that he can come back and write about them in his book.
• He believes people would read his book just like they read 'Travels of Captain Cook'.