[Summary of Bicycle by David Malouf The poem Bicycle presents a bicycle as a beautiful and mysterious machine. It also expresses the fear, danger and uncertainty connected with modern mechanical life. A bicycle has been kept in the bare living room of the poet’s flat. As it has come from outside and does not naturally belong to the room, the poet calls it a “stranger from the streets” and a “light-limbed traveller.” Its thin spokes resemble pi…
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[ Paragraph Questions from Bicycle 🌗 1. How does Bicycle show both the beauty and danger of machines? The bicycle is presented as a beautiful and graceful machine. Its pine-needle spokes, bright rims and polished-horn handlebars make it appear like a forest deity. The poet also calls it a “horizontal angel of green.” However, it is described as “savage” and as a “tall metallic insect.” The imagined shock wave of a collision suggests danger. Th…
[ 🚲 Fill in the Blanks from Bicycle ✍️ Questions – Options Shuffled 🖋️ 1. The poem Bicycle was written by __________. (T. S. Eliot / David Malouf / A. K. Ramanujan) 👤 2. The poem Bicycle is dedicated to __________. (W. H. Auden / Stephen Leacock / Derek Peat) 🏠 3. The bicycle has occupied the poet’s __________. (classroom / living room / garden) 🛣️ 4. The poet calls the bicycle a “stranger from the __________.” (mountains / forest / str…
