Question

Read the poem given below and answer the questions that follow:
Here comes the elephant
Swaying along
With his cargo of children
All singing a song:
To the tinkle of laughter
He goes on his way
And his cargo of children
Have crowned him with may.
His legs are in leather
And padded his toes:
He can root up an oak
With a whisk of his nose;
With a wave of his trunk
And a turn of his chin
He can pull down a house,
Or pick up a pin.
Beneath his grey forehead
A little eye peers:
Of what is he thinking
Between those wide ears?
What does he feel?
If he wished to tease,
He could twirl his keeper
Over the trees:
If he were not kind,
He could play cup and ball
With Robert and Helen
And Uncle Paul:
But that grey forehead,
Those crinkled ears
Have learned to be kind
In a hundred years:
And so with the children
Hegoes on his way
Tothe tinkle of laughter
andcrowded with may.
(a)Where are the children?
(b)How can the elephant tease its keeper?
(c)Which characteristic trait of the elephant enables him to be with thechildren?
(d)What does the poet say about the elephant's strength?
(e)How does the poet describe the elephant's legs?

Answer 1

1.the children are in the forest.

2.

Answer 2

(a) The children are riding on the elephant.

(b) The elephant can tease its keeper by twirling, if the keeper is kind but if the keeper is not kind, the elephant will play ""cup and ball"" with the keeper.

(c) The kindness of the elephant allows him to be and play with the children.

(d) Poet says that Elephant can pull out an oak tree with its roots just like sweeping its nose and also can destroy a house like picking up a pin by turning its chin and waving its trunk.

(e) The poet describes the elephant's legs look like they are made of leather and toes of the elephants were padded.