Question

Read the extract given below and answer the questions that follow: ------- It rots the senses in the head! It kills imagination dead! It clogs and clutters up the mind! It makes a child so dull and blind He can no longer understand a fantasy, a fairyland!.....--------a) Name the poem and the poet of the above extract?

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b) What does the poet mean by the lines,"IT ROTS THE SENSE IN THE HEAD!IT KILLS IMAGINATION DEAD! " ?
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Answer 1

Answer:

The poem is Television roald dahl.

The poet says that television reduced the ability to think in children. The children who watch television are not good at imagination because they rarely ever get to read a book.

Answer 2

Answer:

it is from the poem the television.it refers to the hazards of a child sitting and watching the television for the whole day. watching television makes the child lose his senses and deprives him of his creativity and imagination.It fills the mind of the child with 'ghastly junk'.