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3. Which line divides the time of the poem between the past and present?

4. What do you think the poet is referring to in the following stanza?
"I used to dream of those country roads
tongue and eyes ecstatic
barefoot in the mud
while the city had boots... "

• That there is a vast difference between the city life and and county life and that he is missing the country ways.

5. What do you think the poet means when he says 'one day soon I will return/ to see the smallness of things/where once everything was large'?

That he will visit is home town and notice the hotspots of his childhood where he used to think the world was massive compared to his size.

6. Explain in two sentences what you think the poem is about.

The poem is about him being sick of city life and noticing that the city life has changed the once country boy. He's reminiscing about his country days.