Questions and Answers

Mary Botham Howitt’s poem “The Spider and the Fly” cautions us against the power of flattery and against vanity. Elaborate.

What is the character sketch of the fly in Mary Howitt’s poem “The Spider and the Fly”?

In Mary Botham Howitt’s poem “The Spider and the Fly” why is the Fly described as a “poor foolish thing” and the Spider as “cunning Spider” and “wily”?

“To ask if there is some mistake” — What is the mistake referred to in Robert Frost’s poem “Stopping by woods on a snowy evening”?

Explain the irony used in Hans Christian Andersen’s short story “The Little Match Girl”.

Give a description of the angel as presented in Leigh Hunt’s poem ‘Abou Ben Adhem’.

The story “Quality” by John Glasworthy upholds the dignity of labour and the spiritual aspect of craftsmanship. Do you agree?

In what respects does Chief Seattle wish their father in Washington to regard the native Americans his own children, as expressed in Chief Seattle’s Speech, 1854?

What does the poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow tell us about life in the first stanza of the poem A psalm of life?

Give an account of the crowd’s disapproval and displeasure with the patriot in the poem “The Patriot, an old story” by Robert Browning?