Which lines have been repeated? Did you notice that these lines mark the division between different incidents? Which incident do you think is the funniest? 4. In a humorous poem, a little exaggeration is used to make the reader laugh Which are the things in this poem that are obviously exaggerations? Which are the things that could have actually happened? FROM THE POEM THE MUDDLE HEAD
Answers
The lines that have been repeated in the poem are:
‘What a muddle head was he,
That man who lived in Petushkee!’
All the incidents in the poem are funny. However, according to me the funniest of them is:
‘At lunch he scratched a piece of bread,
And spread some butter on his head.
He put his walking stick to bed,
And he stood in the rack instead.’
All the incidents in the poem are exaggerations. For example, ‘his mixing up with clothes, putting saucepan on head, putting butter on head instead of bread, mixing up with words while talking to the conductor on the tram, asking for a slice of tea and a cup of bread at ticket office and asking for a railway ticket at a café, boarding a stationary coach under repair, etc. all were exaggerations.
A normal man would never ever get so much confused as the muddle head.