Read the poem and answer the questions given below it:
Fame is food that dead men eat,
I have no stomach for such meat.
In little light and narrow room,
They eat it in the silent tomb,
With no kind voice of comrade near
To bid the feaster be of cheer.
But friendship is a nobler thing,
Of friendship it is good to sing.
For truly, when a man shall end,
He lives in memory of his friend,
Who doth his better part recall
And of his fault make funeral.
Questions:
1) Which two things are contrasted in the poem?
2)“I have no stomach for such meat.” What is the ‘such meat’ referred to by the poet?
3)Why does the poet consider friendship ‘a nobler thing’?
4)Explain the rhyming pattern of the verse.
Answers
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Answer:
1) The contrast is in 'Fame' and 'Dead men'.
2) 'Such Meat' is refered to 'Fame'.
3) Friendship is 'a nobler thing' because when nobody remembers you, your friends do remember you always in their memories.
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Explanation:
1) Here, the contrast is between fame as it is called as a food and then poet said which a dead men eat, but the question arises, how can a dead men eat? And food is something that alive takes.
So Fame as Food and Dead Men who eat are contrast to each other.
2) 'Such Meat' is refered to 'Fame' because it is called as a food item, and take reference from first two lines of the poem and read it carefully to understand it much better.
3) Took reference from lines 7 to 10, and you will understand why friendship is nobler.
4) After checking last words of each lines which gives you same sounds when you pronounce them, you will get rhyming pattern, (eat and meat =aa), (room and tomb=bb), (near and cheer=cc) and so on for the rest of the poem. aabbccddeeff