poem:
I want to know why when I'm late
For school, they get into a state,
But if invited out to tea
I mustn't ever early be.
Why I must always go to bed
When other people don't instead,
And why I have to say good night
Always before I'm ready, quite.
Why, if I'm eating nice and slow,
It's "Slow-coach, hurry up, you know!"
But if I'm eating nice and quick,
It's "Gobble-gobble, you'll be sick!”
Why seeds grow up instead of down,
Why six pence isn't half a crown,
Why kittens are so quickly cats,
And why the angels have no hats.
Why, when I'm walking in the street
My clothes must always be complete,
While at the seaside I can call
It right with nothing on at all.
It seems, however hard they try,
That nobody can tell me why,
So I know really, I suppose,
As much as anybody knows.
John Drinkwater.
1.Give an example of what puzzles the poet?
2. Write six pairs of rhyming words from the poem.
Answers
Answer 1:
The poet is puzzled by the diversity of people's & societies' beliefs, rules & regulations.
He says that according to our social beliefs, one has to were complete clothes when walking down the street/alley but it needn't be so when we are on the beach/seaside.
When, a person is eating slow, the people around him say that he/she is too slow and has to hurry up. At the same time, when someone is eating quick and fast the people say that he/she is gobbling the food and it will make him/her sick.
He also says that according to the rules & regulations when a student is late to school, he has to face punishment. But, when somebody calls you to tea you mustn't be early.
The poet is also puzzled by the diversity of nature. He asks why seeds grow upwards and not down.
At the end the poet says, when he asks these questions to anybody, no one is able to answer them no matter how hard they try. So he assumes that nobody in this world knows the answers to all these questions.
Answer 2:
i) late, state
ii) quick, sick
iii) down, crown
iv) cats, hats
v) try, why
vi) call, all
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