Inside question from the poem Television by Roald Dahl

TELEVISION

1.     “The most important thing we've learned,
So far as children are concerned,
Is never, NEVER, NEVER let
Them near your television set --
Or better still, just don't install
The idiotic thing at all.
In almost every house we've been,
We've watched them gaping at the screen.
They loll and slop and lounge about,
And stare until their eyes pop out.
(Last week in someone's place we saw
A dozen eyeballs on the floor.)”

i.                    Who are being addressed here by the poet here and why?

ii.                  Why does the port call the television an ideate box?

iii.               In what way does the poet indulge in beat of exaggeration?

iv.                Describe the effect of television in children’s mind.

2.     “They sit and stare and stare and sit
Until they're hypnotised by it,
Until they're absolutely drunk
With all that shocking ghastly junk.
Oh yes, we know it keeps them still,
They don't climb out the window sill,
They never fight or kick or punch,
They leave you free to cook the lunch
And wash the dishes in the sink --”

i.                    Why are the children unable to take the eyes off the screen?

ii.                  What made the poet astonished when he once visited some one’s house?

iii.               How does the television keep the children’s till?

iv.                How do the parents feel when their children watched the television?

3.     “But did you ever stop to think,
To wonder just exactly what
This does to your beloved tot?
IT ROTS THE SENSE IN THE HEAD!
IT KILLS IMAGINATION DEAD!”
IT CLOGS AND CLUTTERS UP THE MIND!
IT MAKES A CHILD SO DULL AND BLIND
HE CAN NO LONGER UNDERSTAND
A FANTASY, A FAIRYLAND!
HIS BRAIN BECOMES AS SOFT AS CHEESE!
HIS POWERS OF THINKING RUST AND FREEZE!
HE CANNOT THINK -- HE ONLY SEES!

i.                    What question does the poet raised to the parents?

ii.                  To what extend does the television make the children’s brain dull?

iii.               What is very significant to the child?

iv.                What the poet means when he says ‘HIS BRAIN BECOMES AS SOFT AS CHEESE!’

4.     “'All right!' you'll cry. 'All right!' you'll say,
'But if we take the set away,
What shall we do to entertain
Our darling children? Please explain!'
We'll answer this by asking you,
'What used the darling ones to do?
'How used they keep themselves contented
Before this monster was invented?'
Have you forgotten? Don't you know?
We'll say it very loud and slow:
THEY ... USED ... TO ... READ! They'd READ and READ,
AND READ and READ, and then proceed
To READ some more. Great Scott! Gadzooks!”

i.                    What does the poet ask the parents at their objection? What does the poet remind the parents?

ii.                  What shows that the children in the poem found in the past?

iii.               Which books does the poet mentioned?

iv.                What did the books contains?