FAMOUS PLAYWRIGHT POET AND OTHERS
POETRY
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Question
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Comfort
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Leisure
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Relaxation
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Tranquility
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Detailed explanation-1: -The Welsh poet W. H. Davies wrote the poem ‘Leisure ’, which famously begins:’What is this life if, full of care, /We have no time to stand and stare. ‘
Detailed explanation-2: -"Leisure” is a poem by Welsh poet W. H. Davies, appearing originally in his Songs Of Joy and Others, published in 1911 by A. C. Fifield and then in Davies’ first anthology Collected Poems by the same publisher in 1916.
Detailed explanation-3: -We have no time to stand and stare. No time to stand beneath the boughs. And stare as long as sheep or cows.
Detailed explanation-4: -The main theme is that we should abandon our material pursuits and establish a firm contact with nature to lead a rich and diverse life. The poem starts with a rhetorical question, i.e. the author is sure you will agree with him that it’s important to have free time.
Detailed explanation-5: -Ans-By ‘full of care’, the poet means our life which is always dominated by worldly concern, anxieties and worries caused by the challenges we come across.