Questions and Answers

Which words in the poem tell you that the poem was written many years ago?

What is the figure of speech used in the first five line of the first stanza of the poem “The Heart of the Tree” by Henry Cuyler Bunner?

What proposition of the White people does the speaker refer to in “Chief Seattle’s Speech”? Under what conditions would it be acceptable according to Seattle?

What is the main idea or topic in Rabindranath Tagore’s poem ‘Where the Mind is Without Fear’ and in which part of the poem is the idea to be found?

I wasn’t too worried about all this. What was Jesse Owens not so worried about in his autobiographical writing “My greatest Olympic Prize”? Why?

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

In the poem The Bangle Sellers by Sarojini Naidu, why does the sellers call bangles ‘lustrous tokens of radiant lives’? Or, What do the bangles symbolize?

From the poem “I Know why the caged bird sings” by Maya Angelou

Narrate the incidents that took place after the fallen athlete was brought to his feet in David Roth’s poem “Nine Gold Medals”.

What painful thought haunts the narrator in Stephen Leacock’s short story “My Lost Dollar”? Why?