Questions and Answers

Why, according to you, do children spend a lot of time watching TV, as raised by the poet Roald Dahl in his poem “Television”?

Compare the three poems The Eve of Waterloo by Lord Byron, Dulce et Decorum Est by Wilfred Owen and Five Ways to Kill a Man by Edwin Brock.

How does Dilip Chitre convey a sense of an intensely subjective inner world in his poem Father Returning Home? Or, Discuss how the poet has shown man’s isolation in the man-made world.

What was the incident when the speaker happened to lend a dollar to his friend Todd in Stephen Leacock’s story ‘My Lost Dollar’?

Salvatore in W. Somerset Maugham’s short story “Salvatore” was very close to nature. Elaborate with reference from the text.

How does Rabindranath Tagore describe ‘reason’ in his poem Where The Mind Is Without Fear?

What does Seattle, the Big Chief want to convey to White Chief in his speech that he delivered in 1854, Washington?

Comment on Savatore’s respectfulness towards women from W. Somerset Maugham’s short story “Salvatore’.

Comment on the role of Assunta in Salvatore’s life in Somerset Maugham’s short story.

Comment on the theme and message of Ruskin Bond’s short story “A Face in the Dark”.