THE VAGABOND - ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON - BASIC ENGLISH NOTES - SEMESTER II - QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS

 

THE VAGABOND

R.L. STEVENSON

 

Answer the following questions

1) Who is a vagabond?

Ans: A person who wanders all life caring no troubles is called a vagabond.

 

2) What kind of life does the vagabond want?

Ans:  The vagabond wants live life close to the nature. He wants to wander without any bindings, does not want any love, friend or any wealth, and just wants to live the life of homeless person.

 

3) Where does the vagabond spend his night?

Ans: The vagabond usually spends his night looking up at the sky in the bushes.

 

4) How does the poet describe autumn?

Ans:  The poet describes as the autumn is not a beautiful season, the trees leaves turn golden and the land yields its mellow fruitfulness.

 

5) Why does the poet choose to be a vagabond?

Ans:  A vagabond is free from all bindings, a carefree life without fear of death, unlimited liberty, no worries and these all things fill his life with lot happiness. Thus a vagabond chooses a life free from all worldly things.

 

6) What message does the poet want to give through the poem?

Ans: The message the poet wants to give through the poem is in the event that a man once hears the overwhelming call of nature, he can't resist the urge to react to it. Nature catches him captivated by her, and all worldly things are detached.

 

7) What are the things that do not interest the vagabond?

Ans:  The things that do not interest the vagabond are friends, love and wealth. Overall the vagabond wants detachment from worldly pleasure.

 

8) What does the vagabond ask for?

Ans:  The sky above, a bed in the bust, bread for food and river for water to drink, these are things the vagabond asks for.

 

9) What does the vagabond like to see while lying in bed?

Ans:  The vagabond likes to see the stars while lying in bed.

 

10) What silences the bird on the tree?

Ans: The autumn season silences the bird on the tree.

 

11) What would the vagabond do when the winter falls?

Ans: The vagabond will keep on his own life style when the winter falls.

 

12) How does the vagabond eat his bread?

Ans: The vagabond likes to dip his bread in the river and eat his bread.

 

13) What does the poet compare the frosty field to?

Ans:  The poet compares the frosty field to a field which is covered with winter’s frost.

 

Answer the following questions.

1) How does Stevenson portray pleasure of walking?

Ans:  The Vagabond praises the heavenly opportunity and freedom of a vagabond's life. Every stanza emphasize the top delights of an independent life in the outside liberated from all issues. Robert Stevenson points on the vagabond's desire to wander on the streets before him under the sky loaded with stars, requesting to be given the existence that he cherishes. He doesn't need love, hope, friend, or wealth. He needs some bread and some water to drink from the river. The poem gives us the message to carry on with a basic existence with an uplifting perspective. The poet needs to be confined from the common things that will diminish his concerns. All he would require is a bed of grass, a roof of stars, some bread to eat and some water to drink. These essential requirements are given by God and these are all that we require living. In any case, in the consistent quest for our 'wants', we neglect to appreciate these basic things and spend our lives in stressing. The vagabond is keen on an existence of limitless travel. He doesn't need love, hope, friend, or wealth. He realizes he will die sometime. Consequently, he wants for a totally joyful life and isn't annoyed or scared about death by any means. Thus, the writer decides to be a vagabond.

 

 

2) Critical appreciate the poem “The Vagabond”.

Ans: The vagabond is keen on a life of limitless travel and all he needs to do is go starting with one place then onto the next with no limitations. Thus, he is requesting the life that he loves and let the remainder of the world pass him by which implies he isn't worried about the material riches or assets or whatever else around him. What he needs is nature, with the sky as his rooftop and a street to travel. He needs his bed in the bush with the goal that he can see the stars. The poet needs to have an unassuming life and is glad to dip the bread in the river rather than some tea or coffee and this is the sort of life that he needs until the end of time.

 

The poet implies that he is prepared for death which would come eventually and in the event that it doesn't come, he has the roads before him to go around the entire world and the sky above him. He doesn't want for love, hope, friend, or wealth.  The lone thing he tries to have is the sky above him and the road to follow underneath him.

 

The poet discusses the brutal conditions in autumn and winter that he may need to confront while living in the open. He says that let the leaves of autumn fall on him that addresses the start of advanced age. In harvest time, the field looks infertile as the leaves have tumbled off the tree. The birds are quiet and are not, at this point seen singing on the trees. The cold is so extreme in the colder time of year that blood nearly freezes and the finger looks blue. The fields are covered with snow. The fireside is the solitary place that can give warmth and help to vagabond. Nonetheless, the poet further expresses that even these cruel conditions won't prevent a vagabond from living in the open since all he longs for is opportunity above all the other things.

 

3) Explain the life of the vagabond.

Ans: The poem commends a vagabond's love for liberty and his adoration for the outside. The Vagabond loves his freedom and is glad to go through his time on earth in the open with grass for his bed and the stars for a rooftop. He isn't keen on material belongings nor does he look for loved ones. The vagabond knows about the unforgiving conditions in harvest time and winter however that doesn't prevent him from being out in the open. He realizes that eventually of time he should confront his maker. However, till then, at that point, all he asks is to be out in the open with the sky above him and the road in front of him. All he would require is a bed of grass, a roof of stars, some bread to eat and some water to drink. These essential requirements are given by God and these are all that we require living. In any case, in the consistent quest for our 'wants', we neglect to appreciate these basic things and spend our lives in stressing. The vagabond is keen on an existence of limitless travel. He doesn't need love, hope, friend, or wealth. He realizes he will die sometime. Consequently, he wants for a totally joyful life and isn't annoyed or scared about death by any means. Thus, the writer decides to be a vagabond.