Questions and Answers

Do you agree with the statement that the poem “The Gift Of India” by Sarojini Naidu is both a celebration and a proclamation of Mother India’s martyred sons?

“Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening” by Robert Frost explores the theme of an individual caught between nature and civilization. Discuss. How far do you agree with this statement?

What are the adjectives the poetess Sarojini Naidu uses to describe the bangle of the bride in her poem “The Bangle Sellers”?

Enumerate the reactions of children while they are in front of a television set, as the poet suggests in the poem “Telivision” by Roald Dahl.

Draw a character sketch of the little girl Wilhelmine in the poem “After Blenheim” by Robert Southey.

What happens when the mind is without fear?/ why does the poet want the mind to be without fear? Is “fearless” society a just society? Or, Why does the poet feel that his countrymen should not feel any fear?

In Henry Wadsworth Longfellow’s poem ‘A Psalm of Life’ the poet compares our life to the bivouac. Why is this comparison made? ‘In the bivouac of Life, / Be not like dumb, driven cattle! / Be a hero in the […]

Why does a bird that stalks down his narrow cage can seldom see through his bars of rage in the poem “I Know why the caged bird sings” by Maya Angelou? Or, What does “seldom see through his bars of […]

What does “marriage fire” mean in Sarojini Naidu’s poem “The Bangle Sellers”?

Why do you think the cage is “narrow” in the poem “I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings” by Maya Angelou? What is meant by “his bars of rage”?