Question

Q) Read the extract and answer the questions :
"What is this life if, full of care,
We have no time to stand and stare.
No time to stand beneath the boughs
And stare as long as sheep or cows”.
Questions
a) What does the poet mean by the word 'care'?

b) What is the poet trying to say about the 'sheep' and 'cows'?

c) Pick out the word from the given extract, which is the opposite of 'above'.
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Answer 1

Answer:

a. care means taking of everything that goes around us .

b. He was trying to say that we dont have any free time to wander freely like cows or sheeps.

Answer 2

a) The poet, by the word ‘care’, means that life will be pointless if all we get is care or support from others.
b) Sheep and cows are least bothered about what is happening around them since all they have to do is eat, sleep and tend for the younger ones.
c) beneath