Question

What game is the poet referring to in the below extract? “The last man in this forlorn group Did nought except for gain. Giving only to those who gave Was how he played the game?” Extract taken from the poem "COLD WITHIN"

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Answer:

Here the game in the poem is that the last person gave only to people who gave something back to him in exchange for the item given. It was like a game of barter, where when a good is given, something equivalent to it is exchanged. Also here, the last man was willing to give his stick only if someone else also did so.