NET English June 2019 Q.100

100. Comprehension:

THE GROCER'S CHILDREN

The grocer's children
eat day-old bread,
moldy cakes and cheese,
sot: black bananas
on stale shredded Wheat,
weeviled rice, their plates
heaped high with wilted
greens, bruised fruit,
surprise treats
from unlabelled cans,
tainted meat.
The grocer's children
never go hungry.

How does the poem achieve its effect?

1. It lists a number of grocery items which do not have any tangible nutritive benefit
2. It presents a series of inedible fare in the face of the basic need to eat
3. It strays away from the tongue-in-cheek beginning to state the obvious
4. It posits the circumspect existence of a reasonable plan to alleviate hunger

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