Summary | Not for Sale | Anon

Summary           ' Not for Sale ' by an anonymous writer is a heart touching story of a young couple madly in love who overcome all obstacles for the sake of their love and togetherness. The author was on a vacation when he came across a painting of a young woman . The painting was extraordinary and very expressive. He wished to buy it. But the woman in charge of the shop denied saying that the painting belonged to the owner of the shop and he did not wish to sell it. However, the painting was so touching that it kept haunting the author. Whenever he got a chance, he would drive all the way through Taos and to the gallery and see the painting. Finally, the woman shopkeeper told him the story behind the painting. Two young students, a man and a woman, fell madly in love while they studied painting and arts in New York, far from their homes . They decided to get married and have a promising career in painting.           How...

Neither Out Far Nor In Deep | Robert Frost | M.C.Q.

 About The Poet

        Robert Frost (1874-1963) was an American poet. Frost received more than 40 honorary degrees during his lifetime. In 1924, he received his first of four Pulitzer Prizes for his book New Hampshire. He also won Pulitzers for Collected Poems (1931), Further Range (1937) and A Witness Tree (1943).

About The Poem

        Neither out Far nor in Deep, a short lyric, is a subtle satire on the human nature of neglecting or escaping from the concrete reality before them and obsessively seeking to find the unreal, the unknowable and the inaccessible. 

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Neither Out Far Nor In Deep

The people along the sand
All turn and look one way.
They turn their back on the land,
They look at the sea all day.

As long as it takes to pass
A ship keeps raising its hull;
The wetter ground by glass
Reflects a standing gull.

The land may vary more;
But wherever the truth may be-
The water comes ashore,
And the people look at the sea.

They cannot look out far, 
They cannot lock in deep,
But when was that ever a bar
To any watch they keep?

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The people in the poem are at the ..

a. Crossroads
b. at the beach
c. in a garden
d. in a church

Ans. b. at the beach

2. They stand turning their backs to the ..

a. Sea
b. mountains
c. river
d. the land

Ans. d. the land

3. The wetter grass reflects a ..

a. a flying gull
b. a sitting gull
c. a standing gull
d. none of above

Ans. c. a standing gull

4. They cannot look far because ..

a. they are partially blind
b. they have no sight
c. they don't have good
d. their vision is limited

Ans. d. their vision is limited

5. The rhyming scheme of the poem is ..

a. aabb
b. abab
c. abcd
d. aaba

Ans. b. abab

6. The word hull means ..

a. the front part of a ship
b. the bottom of a ship
c. the watertight body of a ship
d. the deck of a ship

Ans. c. the watertight body of a ship

7. The poem 'Neither out Far nor in Deep' is a ..

a. mystery poem
b. romantic poem
c. didactic poem
d. satire

Ans. d. satire

Figures Of Speech

1. The people along the send all turn and look one way

a. Hyperbole
b. Synecdoche

2. The wetter ground like glass reflects a standing gull

a. Simile

3. They turn their back on the land as long as it takes to pass a ship keeps raising its hull.

a. Synecdoche
b. Alliteration
c. Simile

4. The land may very more.

a. Synecdoche
b. Alliteration

5. But whenever the truth may be

a. Alliteration

6. The water comes ashore and the people look at the sea.

a. Repetition
b. Antithesis
c. Synecdoche

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