no - “those four foals you bore”
no - “the support and pleasure of your old age”
yes - “each was sold at a year old”
yes - “all your labour in the fields”
yes - “your bare rations and a stall”
When the boy speaks to John, it shows that the boy is a bully and is antagonizing violence.
I believe that the purpose of the words mud- / luscious and puddle-wonderful in this poem is A) to capture the way the world looks and feels in early spring.
