When at four in the afternoon I come back from the school, I can see through the gate of that house the gardener digging the ground.
He does what he likes with his spade, he soils his clothes with dust, nobody takes him to task, if he gets baked in the sun or gets wet.
I wish I were a gardener digging away at the garden with nobody to stop me from digging.
Q1-What happens when it is four in the afternoon? Q2. Whom does the poet observe in the above stanza?
Q3-What does the child wish to do ? Q4- Explain the following line nobody takes him to task.
Answers
Answer:
When at four in the afternoon I come back from the school, I can see through the gate of that house the gardener digging the ground.
The answers to the questions given are as follows:-
Q1-What happens when it is four in the afternoon?
At four in the afternoon, the speaker in the poem or the poet comes back from school and observes someone through the gate of a house.
Q2. Whom does the poet observe in the above stanza?
The poet observes the gardener in the above stanza. He does so through the gate of that house.
Q3-What does the child wish to do?
The child or the poet wants to become a gardener and keep digging in the garden without having anyone to stop him from digging.
Q4- Explain the following line nobody takes him to task
The gardener mentioned in the poem keeps digging the ground, does as he pleases with his spade, gets soil and dirt on his clothes without have anyone to stop him or ask him to do some other work. No one would care if he gets severely tanned in the heat of the sun or gets wet in the rain.