Stare: to look at something or someone for a long time
without moving your eyes.
Bough: a main branch on a tree.
Streams: it shines through an opening into a place or onto
surface.
Glance: to quickly look at someone or something.
Enrich: to improve the quality of something
Stanza 1
What
is this life if, full of care,
We
have no time to stand and stare.
The
poet asks of how this life would mean if we have the time to take a rest and
feel the beauty of life.
Stanza 2
No
time to stand beneath the bough
And
stare as long as sheep or cows.
Working
people nowadays have no time to rest and have some leisure time as they are too
busy earning money for living.
Stanza 3
No
time to see, when woods we pass,
Where
squirrels hide their nuts in grass.
We
have no time to experience the fresh air and the excitement of spending time in
the jungle watching how the nature of the Earth works as we are too busy
working in the town.
Stanza 4
No
time to see, in broad daylight.
Streams
full of stars, like stars at night.
Since
nowadays people work very hard in the daylight, they turn to be tired at night.
As a result, they have no time to enjoy the beauty of the night seeing that
they need to sleep for their body need to rest to start working early in the
morning the next day.
Stanza 5
No
time to turn at Beauty’s glance,
And
watch her feet, how they can dance.
We
have no time to care about our mothers; how they take care of us and doing the
house chores in order to raise us and to make us live in a happy and
comfortable environment.
Stanza 6
No
time to wait till her mouth can
Enrich
that smile her eyes began.
We
have no time to even take a look at our mothers to curve a smile again and the
eyes that hide all the pain and suffer in raising us.
Stanza 7
A poor
life this is, if full of care,
We
have no time to stand and stare.
The
poet feels that a life without appreciating the nature is seen as a lifeless
life because we don’t have the time for our self to care of the beauty of
nature.
SAMPLE QUESTIONS:
i.
What does the persona long for? Explain why.
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(1
mark)
ii.
Give one example of something he has overlooked so far
because of his work or study.
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(2
marks)
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