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The Duck and the Kangaroo, both were very good friends. As the duck lived in a pond and does not get a variegated life of visiting world, he wanted to have a pleasure tour all around the world. So herequested the kangaroo to allow him to sit on the top of his tail and have a pleasure tour. The kangaroo accepted the wish, but at the same time put someconditions too. According to him the duck’s feet were unpleasantly wet and cold. This may cause with rheumatism. At this the Duck assured him with the remedies he thought about. According to him he has already bought four pairs of woolen socks to put on. Besides he has bought a cloak to cover himself and he will smoke cigar too. In this way boththe duck and the kangaroo started their tour and continued their happy journey. Terms and Meanings from the Poem• Gracious – kind• Nasty – unpleasent• Roo-matiz (Rheumatism) – any disease marked by inflammation and pain in the joints, muscles or tissue.• Cloak – robe• Worsted socks – woollen socks• Pale – light in colourExtra |
Questions and Answers1. Why duck wants to go out for tour?► The duck wanted to saw world beyond his pond so he wanted went out for tour.2. What objection Kangaroo have?► The kangaroo's objection is that the duck's webbed feet are cold and damp and it would give him the roo-matiz.3. What are the conditions put by Kangaroo for the duck?► The conditions put by Kangaroo for the duck is that he sit steady at the end of his tail so he can balance himself.Add speech to textCopy summary and book coverLearn from cram |
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What do animals dream?Do they dream of past lives and unlived dreamsunspeakably human or unimaginably bestial?Do they struggle to catch in their slumberwhat is too slippery for the fingers of day?Are there subtle nocturnal intimationsto illuminate their undreaming hours?Are they haunted by specters of regretdo they visit their dead in drowsy gratitude?Or are they revisited by their crimestranscribed in tantalizing hieroglyphs?Do they retrace the outline of their woundsor dream of transformation, instead?Do they tug at obstinate knotsof inassimilable longings and thwartedstrivings?Are there agitations, upheavals, or mutiniesagainst their perceived selves or fate?Are they free of strengths and weaknesses peculiarto horse, deer, bird, goat, snake, lamb or lion?Are they ever neither animal nor humanbut creature and Being?Do they have holy moments of understandingin the very essence of their entity?Do they experience their existence more fullyrelieved of the burden of wakefulness?Do they suspect, with poets, that all wesee or seemis but a dream within a dream?Or is it merely a small dyinga little taste of nothingness that gathers in their mouths? |
Yahia Lababidiis the author of a collection of aphorisms,Signposts to Elsewhere(Jane Street Press) selected for ‘Books of the Year, 2008’ byThe Independent(UK) and the critically-acclaimed essay collection,Trial by Ink: From Nietzsche to Belly Dancing. His latest work is the new poetry collection,Fever Dreams. To date, his writing has been translated into Arabic, Slovak, Italian, Dutch, Swedish and Turkish.+Theme and summary+Add speech from books+Add to cram |
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