Poem- the grass so little has to do

Q1) What does the grass do during the daytime?

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During the day the grass entertains the bees and butterflies, dances to the teenes that the breezes play and holds the sunshine in its lap while bowing to everything.

Q2) what happens to the grass after it dies?

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It is transformed into sweet smelling lay, which is put away in barns and dreams its days away.

Q3) is it the grass which is describing its life to us? If it is not, then who is telling us his/her views about the grass?

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It is not the grass that is speaking but a speaker who must be human as she knows the odous of spices and spikenard. We know that it is not the grass because the speaker at the end wishes that she were a bay.

Q4) the poet balances two sets of images in the poem:

One which about the low status of the grass, the other which speaks of the grass in reference to the high classes.

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The poet describes the ordinary life of the grass by using different images of the grass entertaining bees and butterflies, dancing to the music of the breeze and smelling of spices as it dreams its days away.

But when we read about it threading dews like pearls so that it is too fine to even notice duchesses, when we read about it being as fragrant as spikenard and being laid in sovereign basis, associated with the higher classes. The poem gives us a picture of grass which is both ordinary and magnificent.

Q5) the poem begins and ends with a live about the grass having “ so little…….. to do “.

Lest the activities of the grass.

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The grass entertains insects, dances to the teenes that the breeze brings, holds the sunshine in its laps, bows to all the things that pass by, threads dew as if they were pearls, and after it dies, it is laid in barus. Smelling sweetly fragrant and dreaming the days away.