Questions and Answers

Comment on the title of the poem The Heart of the Tree. Is it suitable for the theme?

What makes the bazaar in Sarojini Naidu’s poem ‘In the Bazaars of Hyderabad’ different from a supermarket? Or, How are the bazaars of today different from the one described by Sarojini Naidu in her poem?

What do you understand by the phrase “bridal laughter and bridal tear”? What have they been compared with in Sarojini Naidu’s poem ‘The Bangle Sellers’? Or, The poet has compared the bangles of the Indian bride to her laughter as well […]

Comment on the line from Chief Seattle’s Speech: “In all the earth there is no place dedicated to solitude”.

What wealth is the poet talking about in the line ‘What wealth the show to me had brought’ in the poem ‘Daffodils’ by William Wordsworth? How does he realise the worth of the wealth? Or, Explain how the wealth is […]

What was the poet’s purpose of writing the poem ‘Where the Mind is Without Fear’? Or, What is the poet’s vision in this poem? Or, What could have inspired Tagore to write this poem?

Why was the patriot’s path filled with roses in the poem “The patriot” by Robert Browning?

In W. Somerset Maugham’s story ‘Salvatore’, the writer presents the character of Salvatore as a static character rather than a dynamic one. Do you think that this fits well with the protagonist? Give reasons.

Through the imagery of birds in ‘I know why the caged birds sing’ by Maya Angelou the poet is trying to comment on the status of women in the society. Do you agree?

Meaning of ‘sighing trees’ in I Know why the caged bird sings by Maya Angelou? What is the figure of speech used here?