(1) What does the poet think when he goes up in the jet?

Question

Read the following stanzas and answer the questions given below them:

When the jet sprang Into the sky,

it was clear why the city s

had developed the way it had,

seeing it scaled six inches to the mile. There seemed an

inevitability about what on ground had looked haphazard,

unplanned and without style

When the jet sprang into the sky.

(1) What does the poet think when he goes up in the jet?

(2) How does the set up on the ground seem to the poet?

(3) What, according to the poet, is ‘inevitability’? .

Answer 1

1. When the poet goes up in the jet and looks below, it becomes clear to him why the city has developed in such a way.

2. To the poet, the set up on the ground seems quite disorderly.

3. According to the poet, the way the dty has developed is ‘inevitability’. It means a the need arose, it went on developing unsystematically.