1) Who is the speaker of these lines? 2) How does the poet like to be? 3) Who are envious of the poet?

Question

Read the following stanza carefully.

I like to be dependent, and so for ever for my neighbours too, envy at times when at my rise of fortune like to hear my daily steps, easy and odd things too. 

Now, answer the following questions.

1) Who is the speaker of these lines?

2) How does the poet like to be?

3) Who are envious of the poet?

4) When do the neighbours envy?

5) What do the neighbours like to hear?

Answer 1

1. Tagore

2. To be dependent

3. His neighbours

4. When the poet gets any rise of fortune

5. Easy and odd things about the life of the speaker