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The poem "A Roadside Stand" is written by Robert Frost, a prolific American writer. The poem raises the issue of disparity between rich and rural poor people who lead a deplorable life in search of money. Frost is personally anguished by their state and wonders if he gets a chance to change their fate, he would do it but later he changes his mind. In a rural area, a little old house stands at the edge of a high traffic road. Attached to that house, a shed has been built to form a temporary shop to sell modest stuffs. Frost doesn't find it respectable to say that the shop is meant to get just "a dole of bread", he intends to say that it is a little step to earn some money from rich people. The hut-owner wants to earn a little bit of money which supports the city life. The road is busy with fast-moving vehicles passing without stopping or looking at the little shop. If any of them stops there, it is only to look at the signboard which tells the direction of th...