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Vagabond– a person who wander from place to place without a permanent home.
Question 1 : what does vagabond ask for the first stanza of the poem?
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Question 2 : What does the vagabond not wished for?
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Question 3 : What does the poet say about autumn or winter?
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Question 4 : Quote the lines that are repeated in the poem. Why are these lines repeated?
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Question 5 : what does the poet want from life? Name three things he can do without.
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Question 6 : what are the plans of the poet?
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Question 7 : How does the poet lead his life during winter?
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Question 8 : Why does the poet not have any expectation?
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Question 9: Why does the poet choose to be a vagabond?
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Answer starts below:
Answer 1 : Generally people like a life of steadiness, security and certainty. but R L Stevenson likes to live the life of a vagabond. He sings the glory of aimless wandering life. The vagabond love to live with the minimum requirements of life. What he wants are the sky above a bed in the bus bread for food and river water to drink and nothing more.
The cold is so severe in the winter that blood almost freezes and the finger looks blue. The fields are covered with snow.
The fireside is the only place which can give only warmth and relief to the vagabond.
Answerer 4: The following lines are repeated in the poem:
Let the blow fall soon or late;
Let what will be o’er me.
And the road before me.
Nor a friend to know me.
And the road below me.
Answerer 5: the poet wants a life which is carefree and wandering. He wants to sleep on the grass and watch the open sky about it. He wants to eat only bread and drink water from the river. the poet does not want wealth , love or hope. He only wishes to room all over the world without fearing death.
* wealth
* hope
* lone and friends .
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