Question

The conclusion of the prize poem by P.G. Wodehouse

Answer 1

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.  The Prize Poem – P. G. Wodehouse

            Once a misanthropic man sets aside a portion of his income for perpetuating his memory after his death, and at the same time harassing a certain section  of mankind.  

  According to his will, that money is to be utilized for giving a prize to the writer of the best poem on – a given topic, from the sixth form of St. Austin’s college.  The condition is that all the boys of the sixth form should participate in the annual poetry competition.

            The topic prescribed for that year’s competition is “ The college “.  Smith, a student of the sixth form is more interested in cricket than in poetry, but he is also compelled to write a poem.  He approaches Reynolds, a student of a lower class who was in the infirmary after an attack of German measles.  Reynolds writes a stanza describing the college as an “ Imposing pile “ and as a battlefield of cricket and foot ball matches.  He scribbles the stanza on two other sheets.  When the nurse, Mrs. Lee enters the sick room forcefully, the two sheets are blown outside by a strong wind.  Reynolds does not attempt to retrieve them.

            Montgomery and Morrison, two other students of the sixth form, manage to get each of the two sheets.  As a result, Smith, Montgomery and Morrison submit their poems beginning with the same stanza.  The Headmaster, Rev. Arthur James Perceval, sends all the poems to Mr. Wells, his great college friend, for examination.  Mr. Wells writes back saying that only the poem of Rogers of the sixth form was moderately good compared to the other poems.  He further comments that three comedians of the sixth form have cheated the Headmaster by writing the same stanza.

Answer 2

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Summary:-

• A poetry recitation competition is being held at school

• The topic will be decided by head master

• Reynolds is a boy in grade XI or XII

• He is ill and hospitalized due to German Measles

• Smith is a friend of Reynolds and informs him about the competition.

• The topic would be 'The college'

• The poem would be an Ode-about someone/something

• Reynolds wrote the poem

• He was admiring the poem

• Mrs Lee came in and flung the door loudly

• Reynold admired tea over poetry

• He added two lines to make it into a poem

• Evan was questioned about the authenticity of the lines by Morrison.

• Evan leaves the room with some apples.

• Reynolds replies that he has just written the 1st Stanza.

• Smith, Montgomery, Morrisson were called in principals office and questioned.

• All of them had the same stanza

• All of them accepted that these were not their lines.

• Headmaster understood the mistakes.

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