Questions and Answers

Explain the role that memory plays in the short story “Fritz” by Satyajit Ray.

Describe the little match girl’s hallucinations and their significance in Hans Christian Andersen’s short story “The Little Match Girl”. Or, Explain how the girl’s visions are symbolic of her underlying hope.

In the story A Horse and Two Goats by R. K. Narayan, way of life and language differed between Muni and the Red Man but they got along well and their conversation creates a lot of humour. Elaborate. Or, The story […]

Describe the rural life as described in R. K. Narayan’s short story ‘A Horse and Two Goats’.

What is the poet’s attitude towards television in the poem “Television” by Roald Dahl?

Why does the poet compare the moonlit room in the presence of the angel to a ‘lily in bloom’ in Leigh Hunt’s poem Abou Ben Adhem? Or, What was the effect of moonlight in Abou’s room?

Do you think that all the six people in James Patrick Kinney’s poem The cold within were unaware of the consequences of their discrimination?

Why do you think that a nation’s growth depends upon planting trees, as hinted at in the poem ‘The Heart of the Tree’ by Henry Bunner? Or, What according to the poet ‘stirs’ in his heart who plants a tree? […]

Remark on the portrayal of White supremacy in the poem “I know why the caged bird sings” by Maya Angelou.

Why do you think the stanzas have numbered headings in the poem ‘The Patriot’ by Robert Browning?