Brad Burnt His House Down for the Fire Insurance

Rural life may be something we don't associate with rural life, where i think we certainly we. I speak as a city dweller in courage to see rural folk as very narrow minded, a judgmental, et cetera. Ande it's not coming across yet in this poem. But that the fact that he then says, oh, he burnt his house down for the fire insurance, an exact repetition of what he said before, and bought the telescope with what it came to as a slight modification. It's got a fabulous sort of practicality. He goes on to talk about the attitude of the people of littleton, which is where all thiss happen in this small