Questions and Answers

Why has the poet Sarojini naidu selected the market in Hyderabad, not anywhere else, to represent an Indian market in her poem ‘In The Bazaars of Hyderabad’?

In the context of the story Hunger by Nasira Sharma, discuss that the problems of poverty and hunger are common to all economies.

Nissim Ezekiel’s poem The Professor is a satire to urban thinking process: Discuss.

What were the motives behind the rover’s wish to put Abbot of Aberbrothok into trouble in the poem The Inchcape Rock by Robert Southey?

After reading Rabindranath Tagore’s poem ‘Where the Mind is Without Fear’ what do you think about the present state of the country? Do you think that the poet’s wish has been fulfilled?

What is the tone of the poem Stopping by woods on a Snowy Evening by Robert Frost?

What is the settings, the timing and the place where the poem A Doctors Journal Entry for August 6, 1945  by Vikram Seth is set?

Why does the poet say: ‘And the grave is not its goal’ in the poem A psalm of life by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow?

How is poverty described from Rizwan and Kasim’s perspective in the story ‘Hunger’ by Nasira Sharma?

With proper reference to the story discuss ‘Journey by Night’ by Ruskin Bond as a tale of triumph of human courage.