Questions and Answers

How is the bond story and the casket story interrelated in William Shakespeare’s play ‘Merchant of Venice’?

Discuss the theme of sacrifice in O’ Henry’s story ‘The Last Leaf’.

What irony is involved in the patriot’s words “I am safer so” in Robert Browning’s poem ‘The Patriot’?

As mentioned in Sarojini Naidu’s poem ‘The Bangle Sellers’, for whom are the ‘purple and gold flecked grey’ bangles suitable? Which phase of life is symbolized by these bangles?

What does the poet mean by “ever-widening thought and action” in the poem ‘Where the Mind is Without Fear’?

What did Kaspar and his family have to suffer for the ‘famous victory’? How did it affect Kaspar’s thinking about war? [Poem ‘After Blenheim’ by Robert Southey.]

How does Chief Seattle compare the number of the tribal people with that of their white counterpart in his famous speech of 1854?

Explain “far-cast thought of civic good” in the poem “The heart of the tree” by Henry Cuyler Bunner. Or, How does the poet justify that trees contribute in a great way to the civic good?

Name the two things a tree planter actually plants. Give any two phrases that describes a tree in Henry Cuyler Bunner’s poem “The Heart of the Tree”. Or, List any two things that man will do by planting trees.

In Robert Frost’s poem ‘Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening’ Why was the narrator not able to stand there for long? What promises do you think the speaker has to keep?