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The Gardener: Questions & Answers Guide

The summary provides answers to questions about the poem "The Gardener" by R.L. Stevenson from the perspective of a lonely child speaker: 1) The gardener works tirelessly each day caring for the garden, not indulging in conversation or distraction, while the speaker wishes the gardener would play with him during his summer holidays. 2) The poet seems to have more sympathy for the hardworking gardener than the speaker, as the gardener dedicates himself to maintaining the beauty of the garden without break. 3) When winter comes, the garden will become bare and brown, so the gardener must lay down his tools like his barrow since there will be no plants left

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The Gardener: Questions & Answers Guide

The summary provides answers to questions about the poem "The Gardener" by R.L. Stevenson from the perspective of a lonely child speaker: 1) The gardener works tirelessly each day caring for the garden, not indulging in conversation or distraction, while the speaker wishes the gardener would play with him during his summer holidays. 2) The poet seems to have more sympathy for the hardworking gardener than the speaker, as the gardener dedicates himself to maintaining the beauty of the garden without break. 3) When winter comes, the garden will become bare and brown, so the gardener must lay down his tools like his barrow since there will be no plants left

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  • Solved Questions and Answers - Part 1
  • Solved Questions and Answers - Part 2
  • Assignment Booklet Questions
  • Analysis and Character Sketch

SOLVED

QUESTION ANSWERS

1. Where does the gardener make the speaker


walk?

Ans: The gardener makes the speaker walk on


the gravel path leading to the garden

2. Is the gardener hardworking? How many


plants does the gardener work on?
‘

Ans: Yes, the gardener is very hard working.


He works tirelessly throughout the day. While he is at his job, he doesn’t
indulge in any conversation or distract himself. He works sincerely towards
keeping the garden beautiful and well maintained. He takes care of his tools
after he is done.

3. Why does the gardener have to lay his


barrow down in the winter?

Ans: According to the poet, no matter how


hard gardener works to keep the garden well maintained and beautiful, once the
winter comes everything will become bare and brown. Since the garden would not
be green anymore and might not have plants to work on. He will run out of work,
therefore his tools along with barrow would be of no use.

4. What does the speaker want the gardener to


do instead of work?

Ans: The poet is a lonely child, who does not


have any playmates. He wishes to spend his summer vacations with fun and
frolic. Therefore, he wants the gardener to be his companion and play games
like Indian war with him.

Q5. The speaker is probably home for his


summer holidays. Support this sentence with examples from the poem.

Ans: The speaker is home for his summer


holidays. The line “Well now, and while the summer stays.”

Q6. Who do you feel the poet has more


sympathy for- the speaker or the gardener? How do you get this impression?

Ans: The poet seems to have more sympathy for


the gardener. He makes it clear that the speaker is a child and does not understand why the
gardener works so hard and prefers to be quiet. The poet also praises the
gardener saying that he is hardworking.
 

Reference
to the context:

Read the given lines


and answer the questions which follow.

'He digs
the flowers green, red and blue

Nor wishes
to be spoken to

He digs
the flowers and cuts the hay

And never
seems to want to play'

a)  The line above is taken from the poem


____________ written by ______________.

b) 
Who wants
to play with the gardener?

c) 
Why is the
gardener not interested in playing with him?

d) 
Pick out a
line which tells us the gardener is not a very social person.

Ans.
a) The above lines are taken from the poem “The Gardener” written by R. L
Stevenson.

b)
The little boy or the poet wants to play with the gardener.

c)
Gardener is a very hardworking man, he believes in doing his own work that is
tending to the gardener. He is also not a very social person.

d) “
Nor wishes to be spoken” tells us that the gardener is a very social person.

ASSIGNMENT BOOKLET
QUESTIONS

THE GARDENER

Read the given lines and answer the


questions which follow

II.         Silly Gardener! Summer goes,

                      And winter comes with pinching toes,

                      When in garden bare and brown

                      You must lay your barrow down.

a)   
Why does the poet call the
gardener 'silly'?

b)   
What happens to the garden
during winters?

c)   
What according to the poet
the gardener must do during winters?

d)   
Give the rhyme scheme of
the lines given above.
 

2. Answer the following questions.

a)    How
do we know that the gardener takes good care of his tool and implements?

b)   
What does the poet
feel  would make the gardener appear
wiser.

Give a brief character sketch of the


gardener. Lay special emphasis on his hard working attitude and simple minded
devotion to his job as a gardener.(60 words)

SOLVED QUESTION ANSWERS 1. Where does the gardener make the speaker walk? Ans: The gardener makes the speaker walk on t
  Reference to the context: Read the given lines and answer the questions which follow.   'He digs the flowers green, r
Gardener is a very hardworking man, he believes in doing his own work that is tending to the gardener. He is also not a very
  2. Answer the following questions.   a)    How do we know that the gardener takes good care of his tool and implements? b) 

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