Question

Complete the following sentences about the poem.

1. In the first stanza, the poet refers to four pieces of evidence: large shoes, a long bed, the Bible, fields cluttered with boulders and a leaky barn. This leads the poet to conclude that ‘the man of the house’ was ________________
2. I think that the child was probably about six years old because_____________ .
3. The poet suggests that a woman lived in the farmhouse because______________ .
4. The family probably left the farmhouse because____________________________ .

Answer 1

1. a tall, well built and god-fearing poor man and was not a farmer.
2. simplicity and functionality of toys indicate that the child was neither too young nor too old.
3. there was lilac on the wallpaper and oil­cloth in the kitchen.
4. most of the items were there in the house and weeds had cropped up in the yard.