UNIT-3 POEM-3
THE SHED
Answer the following questions
1. Who is the speaker in the poem?
A) The speaker is the poet himself.
2. Is she/he afraid or curious or both?
A) The speaker seems to be both curious as well as afraid to go inside
the shed. He is curious to enter the shed and at the same time he is
afraid because he thinks that strange voices could be of a ghost who
lives inside the Shed.
3. What is she/he planning to do soon?
A) She/he is planning to go into the shed someday soon.
4. “But not just yet…” suggests doubt, fear, hesitation, laziness or
something else. Choose the word which seems right to you. Tell
others why you chose it.
A) He currently fears that someone stares at him and, at the same
time, also thinks that his brother’s claim that there’s a ‘ghost’ is just a
lie. The word hesitation seems right because the poet is a small child
and his brother has told him that if he steps in the ghost will jump and
chop off his head.