Questions and Answers

From the poem “Telephone Conversation” by Wole Soyinka

Though the caged bird sings for freedom, the free bird doesn’t do so. What do you think is the reason behind the free bird not singing for freedom?

George Bernard Shaw’s “Candida” is a mystery play. Do you agree?

What difference does the poet Maya Angelou show between a free bird and a caged bird in her poem ‘I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings’? Or, Compare the life of a free bird to that of the caged bird. […]

How does the professor describe his present situation in life in Nissim Ezekiel’s poem “The Professor”?

Identify and explain the figures of speech used in the poem The Daffodils by William Wordsworth.

Justify the title of Stephen Leacock’s short story “My Lost Dollar”. How is this title more appropriate than the possible title “The Borrowed Dollar”?

Explain the poetic devices / figures of speech used in line 11 and 12 of Rudyard Kipling’s poem “If–“.

What were the changes in the time and condition when Vasavadatta and Upagupta met for the first time and again towards the end in Rabindranath Tagore’s poem “Abhisara – The Tryst”?