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Question
What does the poet want to know from the goldfish?
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Solution
The poet wants to know from the Goldfish whether it is not sad when it feels the cold waves moving slowly and quietly over it. He further enquires if the Goldfish sometimes long to be like a lark bird flying in the sky.
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