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Pre-reading
1.	What is meant by leisure? How do you like to spend your leisure time?
During reading
2.	Why are the words “no time” repeated so often?

Leisure

W.H. Davies

What is this life, if full of care,

We have no time to stand and stare?

No time to stand beneath the boughs

And stare as long as sheep or cows.

No time to see, when woods we pass,

Where squirrels hide their nuts in grass.

No time to see in broad daylight,

Streams full of stars like skies at night.

No time to turn at Beauty’s glance,

And watch her feet how they can dance

No time to wait till her mouth can

Enrich the smile her eyes began.

A poor life this, if full of care,

We have no time to stand and stare.

Post-reading
3. a)	How does the poet answer the question he poses in the beginning?
b)	Do you agree with his point of view? Explain.
4.	Explain how streams can be full of stars in the daytime. Name the figure of speech used here.
5.	Beauty (line 9) could be a person or it could stand for anything beautiful. What do you think stanza 6 means?
6.	If you had more time, what would you spend time just looking at?