\ AJESTIONS ON THE POEMS
2. What (a) good qualities, (b) weaknesses, make Jack
a lovable character ? What is to be said in defence of his
way of life ?
3. Write a paragraph on E. V. Lucas as a humorist.
Compare him with Goldsmith (p. ipi).
4. Write a similar sketch, either in prose or in verse, of
a village worthy you have known.
The Changeling.
1. Compare the fairies in this poem with the goblins in
" Goblin Market " (p. 67).
2. Write a note on the descriptions of Nature in the
fourth stanza.
3. Comment on the attitude of (a) the child to its parents,
(b) the parents to the child. What justifies the applica-
tion to the child of the name " changeling " ?
4. Write a short note on (a) the stanza-form, (b) poetical
devices used in this poem, e.g. alliteration, middle rhyme.
Stupidity Street.
1. How does the poet emphasise his astonishment and
disgust ?
2. Express in a sentence the moral of this poem. Com-
pare it with the argument put forward in " Tit for Tat"
(p. 146).
Roundabouts and Swings.
1. What information about gipsies can you get from this
poem ?
2. The gipsy is evidently contented. Compare his ideal
of a happy life with the ideals of e.g. Wotton (p. 99), " The
Vagabond " (p. 134), or " Innisfree " (p. 137).
3. Write a short essay from experience or imagination,
describing life in a caravan.
4. Mention any other poem or book dealing with the
gipsy life. Compare the gipsies there with this one.
5. Write a short paragraph describing the scene of the
meeting in the lane.
6. Draw a picture of gipsies.
Tit for Tat.
1. What is the poet's argument against cruelty to animals ?
Is it a good one ? Compare it with the arguments used in
Wordsworth's " Hart-Leap Well" (p. 29) and Coleridge's
" The Rime of the Ancient Mariner."
2. Using the arguments given in this poem and in
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