(i) The advice that was given by the poet to the parents earlier in the context was to stop their children from wasting their time in front of the tube, and not to install the television at all.
(ii) The poet describes the television as an 'idiotic thing', saying that it is a device with no benefits at all, and it only wastes our time, and money. He says that books are better than television.
(iii) The thing that the poet has observed in every house, is a television set, which he hates to see, and does not understand why parents even install it for.According to the poet, the 'eyes' of the children pop out when they keep watching the television for too long, and with no stopping. In order words, he tries to say that their eyes are harmed.
(iv) In the last lines of this context, the poet is using metaphor when he is comparing the children with a dozen eyeballs. He uses this figure of speech, to make the poem more amusing, and interesting.
(v)
a-The two examples of repitation in the extract are: i)Is never, NEVER, NEVER let;
ii)They sit and stare and stare and sit.
b-The extract have a rhyme scheme which heightens the effect of narration. Scheme followed throughout the extract is aa, nn, cc and so on. For example: IS never, NEVER, NEVER let;
(i) According to poet watching television for long time keeps the children still. The children get hypnotized by watching television and they spends all there days in front of television.
(ii) The parents let their children watch television uninterrupted, since then their children do not annoy or disturb them anymore, as their time is mostly spent in front of the television.
(iii) According to the poet, watching television makes the children dull, as they are only wasting their time on the tube, instead of reading books, or play outside, which can provide actual benefit for them.
(v)Yes, Dhal is critical of television in the lines above. Because watching excess of television makes children dull, and dumb, and also damages their thinking power.
(v)Yes, Dhal is critical of television in the lines above. Because watching excess of television makes children dull, and dumb, and also damages their thinking power.
(iv) The poet says that watching excess of television makes children dull, and dumb, and also damages their thinking power, since the television only shows junk content which gives no knowledge at all.
Extract-3
(i) The poet is answering the question of bad effect of television.The poet's advice to parents about their children watching television is that, if they remove the television set, there will be no means for the children to entertain themselves with.
(ii) 'TELEVISION' s the monster referring in the extract. Before its invention when our parent were children they entertain them self by reading book and playing in field but now children spent all their time in front of television.
(iii)The poet reminds the parents of how they used to entertain themselves, back in the day, when they were children themselves, and tells them that they did so by reading books. The exclamations, 'Great Scott' and 'Gadzooks' used by the poet in the extract, is used to express the shock,surprise and annoyance.
(iv) The poet uses all capital letters in this line, so as to emphasis the point that when the parents, and he were children, they spent their time by reading books.
(v) The poet recommends reading of books to the children, as he believes that books are the only source of knowledge, and for the minds of children to be more creative.