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Read the poem and answer the questions given below it:
Oh sweet content that turns the labourer's sweat
To tears of joy and shines the roughest face,
How often have I sought you high and low
And found you still in some lone quiet place
Here, in my room, when full of happy dreams,
With no life heard beyond that merry sound
of moths that on my lighted ceiling kiss
Their shadows as they dance and dance around
Or in a garden, on a summer's night,
When I have seen the dark and solemn air
Blink with the blind bats' wings, and heaven's bright face
Twitch with the stars that shine in thousands there.
- William Henry Davies
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Questions :
. What does the poet mean by 'no life heard' ?
). Why, do you think, has the poet mentioned the labourer ?
1. What message does the poet give us in this poem?
2. Describe the night as the poet has done in the last stanza.
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Answers
Reading Comprehension
1. The poet William Henry Davies conveys a very important message through his short poem Oh, Sweet Content!. It states that contentment is attained from very unpredictable sources. It has nothing to do with rich or materialistic sources. In fact contentment is achieved by the hard working masses and at quiet corners far from crowded places.
2. The night described by the poet is bereft worldly pleasures. It only involves the sound of moths dancing round the light at the poet's ceiling, a quiet summer night which was dark and quiet,blinking with the flapping of the bat's wings, twitching with the light of the thousand of stars in a star lit night.
3. By 'no life heard' the poet refers to a quiet night where the sound of humans and their worldly activities can no longer be heard.
4. 'Labourers' are all those workers who toil all day. They are poor but hard working. Much like the 'miller' in the poem 'Miller of the Dee' they are a kingdom's pride as they are honest and form the base of society.
The poet mentions the labourers to foreground his theme of contentment through simplicity and bereft worldly luxuries.
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