Question

summary of sympathy by charles mackay

Answer 1

In the poem "Sympathy" the poet describes the incidents happened with him.

Once he was lying on ground due to some incident and was feeling hopeless and full of sorrow , at this time a rich man came with money to help him but he feels that the man has the pride of his money and has no inner feelings for him.After some time when poet recover and become able to return the favor to the man who helped him.He goes to meet him and return his money and said God will reward him also for his good deed.

One the very similar incident the poet was again lying down on ground with injuries and full of sorrow , this time a poor man helped him with no money but by taking care of him until he become fully healthy ,the man stayed with him and took very care for him even give him healthy food to restore the health.This time when he regain his health and status he don't know how to pay the poor man back because this was not about  money this was about "sympathy".

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