iii. Read the poem and fill in the blanks with the appropriate words to complete the following summary.
The poem “Did I Miss Anything?” is written from two distinct points of view. They are the student's point of view and the teacher's point of view. The words “nothing" and "everything” represents the............. and the teacher's point of view respectively. Stanza one is written from the students' point of view. It reveals the fact that the teacher is .............. in the classroom. In the teacher's absence, the students simply sit in........ with their hands folded on the desks. Stanza two is written from the teacher's point of view. It tells how he has given heavily weighted exams, ............. readings, and prepared a quiz. Stanza three represents students' perspective. Here, a typical student ............. that the classroom education is valueless, .............. and a waste of time. It will have no effect or purpose later in life. However, in stanza four, the poet explains why education is important. It claims that through education a person is ........ The fifth stanza questions how anything could possibly be .............. without a teacher. The sixth stanza explains the ............. of the classroom. The last two one-line stanza of the poem serves as a message to all doubtful students: they should always be present in the classroom so as to take in all they are able to learn in the “.............. of human experience".
student's point of view, missing, silence, assigned, blames, meaningless, enlightened, accomplished, significance, microcosm
