Questions and Answers

”Tis some poor fellow’s skull,’ said he, Why does the speaker in Robert Southey’s poem ‘After Blenheim’ say that the skull was of some ‘poor fellow’?

Until they’re absolutely drunk With all that shocking ghastly junk. Explain the phrase “that shocking ghastly junk” in Roald Dahl’s poem “Television”.

What gifts did mother India give to the world as told in the poem “The Gift of India” by Sarojini Naidu?

What does the poetess Sarojini Naidu suggest in the last line of her poem “The Gift of India”? Remember the blood of my martyred sons!

What are the various themes of the poem ‘The Gift of India’ by Sarojini Naidu?

Comment on the title of the short story “Fritz” by Satyajit Ray. Is the title justified?

Why did none of the characters in the poem “The Cold Within” share their wood? Or, What role did prejudice, discrimination, racism and envy play in the poem?

What killed the six ‘humans’, as stated towards the end of James Patrick Kinney’s poem ‘The Cold Within’?

What is the poet’s advice regarding truthfulness and hatred in the poem ‘If-‘ by Rudyard Kipling?

In James Patrick Kinney’s poem The cold within, what does the poet mean by “They died from the cold within”? Or, Justify the title of the poem.