What is the poet’s attitude toward the feeble attempts at beautificationdetailed in lines 23–33? Sympathy, contempt, or what? How is the attitude indicated?
What will be an ideal response?
- The attempts are doomed, not only by the gas station’s being saturated with oil, but by the limitations of the family, whose only reading appears to be comic books and whose tastes run to hairy plants and daisy-covered doilies. In line 20, comfy is their word, not the poet’s own. But the tone of the poem seems to be goodhumored amusement. The sons are “quick and saucy”—likable traits. The gas station can’t be beautiful, but at least its owners have tried. In a futile gesture toward neatness, they have even arranged the oil cans in symmetry.
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