Line 1:
"My next-door neighbour, Mrs. Jones,"
Important words
next-door neighbour
→ a person who lives in the house beside yours
Meaning:
The speaker introduces Mrs. Jones as the woman who lives next door.
Sabse pehle bas character introduce hoti hai —
Mrs. Jones, next-door neighbour
. Ye line har stanza mein wapas aayegi.
Line 2:
"has got a garden full of stones:"
Important words
Meaning:
Mrs. Jones has a garden in which stones are a major feature.
Normal garden bolte hi flowers ya grass yaad aate hain. Yahan pehla strong image hai:
garden full of stones
. Joke ka base yahin se banta hai.
Line 3:
"A crazy path, a lily pond,"
Important words
crazy path
→ an irregular, winding or unusually shaped path
lily pond
→ a small pond in which water lilies grow
Meaning:
Her garden contains an oddly shaped path and a lily pond.
Ab poet garden ke bade-bade visible features dikha raha hai —
crazy path
aur
lily pond
.
Line 4:
"a rockery and, just beyond"
Important words
rockery
→ a garden feature made mainly with rocks and small plants
just beyond
→ a little farther away
Meaning:
There is also a rockery, and something else can be seen a little farther beyond it.
Reader ki nazar garden mein aage move karti hai: rockery ke baad bhi kuch aur hai. Poem almost camera ki tarah garden scan kar rahi hai.
Line 5:
"A sundial with a strange device,"
Important words
sundial
→ an instrument that tells time using the Sun’s shadow
device
→ an object or mechanism made for a particular purpose
Meaning:
Beyond the rockery stands a sundial with an unusual mechanism.
Speaker ko sundial ka mechanism
strange
lagta hai. Ye Mrs Jones ke unusual taste ko aur strong banata hai.
Line 6:
"which Mrs. Jones thinks rather nice."
Important words
rather nice
→ quite pleasant or attractive
Meaning:
Mrs. Jones likes the unusual sundial even though the speaker calls its device strange.
Same object, do reactions: speaker ke liye
strange
, Mrs Jones ke liye
rather nice
. The way we see things ka difference yahin dikhne lagta hai.
" My next-door neighbour, Mrs. Jones, "
(The speaker introduces Mrs. Jones as the woman who lives next door.)
" has got a garden full of stones: "
(Mrs. Jones has a garden in which stones are a major feature.)
" A crazy path, a lily pond, "
(Her garden contains an oddly shaped path and a lily pond.)
" a rockery and, just beyond "
(There is also a rockery, and something else can be seen a little farther beyond it.)
" A sundial with a strange device, "
(Beyond the rockery stands a sundial with an unusual mechanism.)
" which Mrs. Jones thinks rather nice. "
(Mrs. Jones likes the unusual sundial even though the speaker calls its device strange.)
Overall meaning:
Mrs. Jones has an unusual garden full of stones and different features such as a crazy path, a lily pond, a rockery and a sundial. The speaker finds some parts of the garden strange, while Mrs. Jones clearly likes them. The stanza shows that the two neighbours look at the same garden differently.
Mrs Jones ka garden
stones aur unusual features
se bhara hai—crazy path, lily pond, rockery aur sundial. Speaker ko kuch cheezein strange lagti hain, par Mrs Jones ko wahi pasand hain. Matlab dono
same garden ko alag tarah se dekhte hain
.
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