Summary
Summary of "City streets and country roads" by Eleanor Farjeon
The poem contrasts city life with country life. It highlights:
- City features: streets, trams, chimneys, and lamp-posts.
- Country features: roads, carts with hay, grain, hedgerows, and trees.
The speaker expresses a longing to escape to the peacefulness of the countryside, appreciating its natural beauty and simplicity.
Unit 18 City and Country
Lessons 1-2
A. Listen, read and say.
City streets and country roads by
Eleanor Farjeon
The city has streets-
But the country has roads.
In the country one meets
Blue carts with their loads
Of sweet-smelling hay,
And mangolds, and grain.
Oh, take me away
To the country again!
In the city one sees
Big trams rattle by,
And the breath of the chimneys
That blot out the sky.
And all down the pavements
Stiff lamp-posts one sees-
But the country has hedgerows,
The country has trees.
As sweet as the sun
In the country is rain:
Oh, take me away
To the country again!
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