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In the first stanza of ‘The Table and the Chair,’ the poet begins by describing what the

“Table” said to the “Chair”. The poet created the characters and allowed them to talk

and act as human beings would. The Table complained to the chair about the heat and

the sores on its “feet”. The Table suggested that they should go out for a walk and get

some fresh air and asked the chair to accompany him.

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2 stanza: The Chair responded and reminded the Table that they were only pieces of

furniture and couldn’t walk even if they wanted to. The Table wasn’t deterred. It

determined that it would “do no harm to try” to walk on the legs that they had. They

expected that at least two out of the four should be good enough. This created the

possibility of a very humorous image where the table and the chair tried to walk on the

road.