Class 12 English - Flamingo - Poetry - Chapter A Roadside Stand NCERT Solutions | The government and other social service
The government and other social service agencies appear to help the poor rural people, but actually do them no good. Pick out the words and phrases that the poet uses to show their double standards.
The poet shows the double standards of the government and the social service agencies who promise them to change lot of things and will bring some good changes for them but no one do anything for them. The poet calls them “greedy good doers” and “beneficent beasts of prey”, who “swarm over their lives”. Also he says “.....enforcing benefits
That are calculated to soothe them out of their wits,
Ans by teaching them how to sleep they sleep all day,
Destroy their sleeping at night the ancient way.”
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(i) is ill and exhausted
(ii) has her head bent with shame
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(i) sly and secretive
(ii) thin, hungry and weak
(iii) unpleasant looking(c) The stunted, unlucky heir of twisted bones means
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