Why did the author appear to be doing nothing at Gemini studios?

Why was the crofter so talkative and friendly with the peddler? 

Why and how is grandeur associated with the mighty dead? (A Thing of Beauty)

How do 'denizens' and 'chivalric' add to our understanding of the tigers' attitude?

Read the extract given below and answer the questions that follow:

.......... but soon
put that thought away and
looked out at young
trees sprinting, the merry children spilling
out of their homes, ...

(a) Which thought did the poet put away?

(b) What do the sprinting trees' signify?

(c) What are 'the merry children spilling out of their homes', symbolic of?

What was the plea of the folk who had put up the roadside stand?

Do you think the poet; Pablo Neruda advocates total inactivity and death? Why / Why not? 

What was Franz expected to be prepared with for the school that day? 

Why was Douglas determined to get over his fear of water?

Surely, Shakespeare is wicked, the map a bad example,
With ships and sun and love tempting them to steal –
For lives that slyly turn in their cramped holes
From fog to endless night ? On their slag heap, these children
Wear skins peeped through by bones and spectacles of steel
With mended glass, like bottle bits on stones.

(a) Why is Shakespeare described as wicked?

(b) Explain: 'from fog to endless night'.

(c) What does the reference to 'slag heap' mean?