Questions and Answers

Why did Muni feel the urge to run when he first laid eyes on the foreign visitor? What stopped him from doing so?

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

In ‘My Greatest Olympic Prize’, what does the author mean by ‘hot under collar’ and ‘Der Fuhrer’?

What does the first man hold back in the poem ‘The Cold Within’ and why?

“Why, ’twas a wicked thing!” — What was the ‘wicked thing’? Do you agree with the speaker in the poem ‘After Blenheim’?

How does the speech of the Chief show that his people were oppressed?

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

How did Chief Seattle react to the greetings sent by the Great Chief at Washington?

How do the lives of great people affect others around them as told by the poet in the poem “A psalm of life”?

In Henry Wadsworth Longfellow’s poem ‘A Psalm of Life’ the poet compares our life to the bivouac. Why is this comparison made? ‘In the bivouac of Life, / Be not like dumb, driven cattle! / Be a hero in the […]