Question

The city folk who drove through the countryside hardly paid any heed to the roadside stand or to the people who ran it. If at all they did, it was to complain. Which lines bring this out? What was their complaint about?

Answer 1

“The polished traffic passed with a mind ahead,  Or if ever aside a moment, then out of sorts 

At having the landscape marred with the artless paint Of signs that with N turned wrong and S turned wrong”  

According to the city folk, these stalls with inartistic signboards blemish the scenic beauty of the landscape.