The Bridge Builder By Will Allen Dromgoole

Will Allen Dromgoole (1860-1934) was an American author and poet. She has written more than 7,500 poems and 5,000 essays. She wrote thirteen books in her lifetime, of which The island of Beautiful Things is very well known. The bridge builder is her most famous poem and has been reprinted several times.

An old man going a lone highway,
Came, at the evening cold and gray,
To a chasm vast and deep and wide.
Through which was flowing a sullen tide
The old man crossed in the twilight dim,
The sullen stream had no fear for him;
But he turned when safe on the other side
And built a bridge to span the tide.

"Old man," said a fellow pilgrim near,
"You are wasting your strength with building here;
Your journey will end with the ending day,
You never again will pass this way;
You've crossed the chasm, deep and wide,
Why build this bridge at evening tide?"

The builder lifted his old gray head;
"Good friend, in the path I have come," he said,
"There followed after me today
A youth whose feet must pass this way.
This chasm that has been as naught to me
To that fair-haired youth may a pitfall be;
He, too, must cross in the twilight dim;
Good friend, I am building this bridge for him!"

The poem tells us the story of an old man who came across a wide chasm After crossing over he decided to build a bridge While he was building it a fellow traveller came along and asked him why he was building a bridge when he had already crossed the chasm The old man said that he was building it for another traveller who might find it difficult to cross the chasm The poem focusses on the fact that people should not be selfish and that they should think about others and not just about ...

1.
Where was the old man going ?
2.
"You are wasting your strength with building here; Your journey will end with the ending day, You never again will pass this way; you've crossed the chasm, deep and wide. Why build this bridge at evening tide ?"
1. Who is the speaker? Who is he speaking to?
2. Why does the speaker say 'you are wasting your strength with building here'?
3. Why is the old man building a bridge at evening tide?
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In the poem, the old man builds abridge for those who will cross the chasm after him. What lesson does this teach us ?
4.
How has the chasm been described ?
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What did the old man do after crossing the chasm?
6.
Why did the fellow pilgrim ask the old man the reason for building the bridge ?

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