Questions and Answers

How is the God of Red Children different from the God of White people as stated in Chief Seattle’s Speech? Or, How does Chief Seattle prove that White man’s god is not the god of the natives/ Red Indians?

Comment on the background of the poem The Bangle sellers by Sarojini Naidu.

In Chief Seattle’s 1854 speech, what does the speaker say about death? Explain it. Or, What does Chief Seattle mean when he says “There is no death, only a change of worlds.”?

Answer the following short-answer type/ objective questions on the poem “After Blenheim” by Robert Southey.

What was peculiar about the dance of the daffodils in the poem “I wandered lonely as a cloud” by William Wordsworth?

Mention any two effective methods used by the author to create an eerie atmosphere in the story “A Face in the Dark”. Or, Bring out the instances of eeriness from “A Face in the Dark”.

What does the expression “And years that fade and flush again” mean in the second stanza of the poem “The Heart of the Tree” by Henry Cuyler Bunner?

What is the character sketch of the fly in Mary Howitt’s poem “The Spider and the Fly”?

What is “narrow domestic walls”? In What Ways are the ‘narrow domestic walls’ harmful to a nation? Need more explanation. Or, Why does the poet want people to be free from narrow domestic walls? How can we get rid of […]

Is the poem ‘Nine Gold Medals’ by David Roth referring to any particular Olympics event? Which year did this occur?