Explanation: Poem - The Duck and The Kangaroo, English, Class 8 Video Lecture

now let's listen to another interesting
poem called the duck and the kangaroo
plus nine CBSE English this poem was
written by Edward Lear born 1812 died
1888 Edward Lear was an English artist
illustrator author and poet and is now
known for his literary nonsense in
poetry and prose
he has been played in radio dramas by in
the need for nonsense and by the coast
of Cora Mandela the kangaroo if you are
familiar is a very gentle animal and
it's native of Australia it carries its
young called a Joey in a pouch in front
of its stomach the kangaroo is
herbivorous by the way like a deer or a
cow the duck is a common foul often
raised for its meat a close cousin of
the duck is the Indian Swan with its
long and shapely elegant neck while they
appear to be serene on the water their
webbed feet are actually paddling
vigorously underwater to keep afloat and
moving on land the duck waddles that
means it walks from side to side like
the gait of a pregnant woman walking
okay here's the poem stanza one said the
duck to the kangaroo good gracious how
you hop over the fields and in the water
too as if you never would stop now due
to its extremely long powerful hind legs
the kangaroo can hop and Lee great
distances perhaps forty to fifty feet at
a time it uses the tail to balance
itself in flight to continue with stanza
one my life is a bore in this nasty pond
and I long to go in the world beyond I
wish I could hop like you said the duck
to the
I'm sure many of you are familiar with
this word long means to dearly wish for
something stanza to please give me a
ride on your back said the duck to the
kangaroo I would sit quite still and say
nothing but quack the whole of the long
day through and we'd go to the D and the
jelly boldly over the land and over the
sea please take me for a ride
onew said the duck to the kangaroo said
the kangaroo to the duck this requires
some little reflection perhaps on the
whole it might bring me luck and there
seems but one objection this word a
little reflection means it requires me
to think it over which is if you let me
speak so bold
your feet are unpleasantly wet and cold
and would probably give me the room at
ease said the kangaroo in this poem the
poet has used this word room at ease
which is a short form for a romanticism
you know pain in the knees and let me
speak so bold means if you will permit
me to say so continuing with stanza for
set the duck as I sat on the rocks I
have thought over that completely and I
bought four pairs of worsted socks which
fit my webbed feet completely rough
knitted socks are what are called
worsted songs and to keep up the cold
I've bought a cloak and every day a
cigar I smoke all to follow my own dear
true love of a kangaroo I am sure many
of you are familiar with the word cigar
and cigar there's nothing but rolled
tobacco like a fact cigarette and are
you familiar with the typical emblem of
Sir Winston Churchill known to
focus cigar all the time stanza five
said the kangaroo I am ready all in the
moonlight pale but balanced me well dear
NOx it steady and quite at the end of my
Gale so they went off into the pale
moonlight with the duct balanced on the
end of the Kangaroos tail and the story
goes that so away they went with a hop
and a bound and they hopped the whole
world three times round and whoo so
happy oh who as the duck and the
kangaroo the poet concludes that nobody
in the world was as happy as the duck
and the kangaroo isn't that a nice poem
simple funny poem the next point we are
going to read is on killing a tree by
give patel this is a serious point about
conservation of greenery and forests