Questions and Answers

Show that Jealousy is the most incurable defect of human character as depicted in the poem The Inchcape Rock by Robert Southey.

How should we treat the past and the future according to the speaker in ‘A Psalm of Life’ by Longfellow?

Give a character sketch of the protagonist Sher Singh in the story “Journey by Night” by Norah Burke. Or, How can we describe Sher Singh and what words can we use to describe the character and nature of Sher Singh?

How were the dreams and efforts of one participant dashed in the dirt in the poem Nine gold medals by David Roth? What was his reaction?

What role do the vendors, pedlars and maidens play in Sarojini Naidu’s poem ‘In the Bazaars of Hyderabad’?

How does the poet Robert Frost create a sense of utter isolation and silence in the poem ‘Stopping by woods on a snowy evening’? Why does he do so?

Why does Henry Wadsworth Longfellow say “trust no future” in his poem A Psalm of Life?

In the poem IF by Rudyard Kipling, the poet says: If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you Why is it so important to trust oneself?

“My little horse must think it queer” — what is queer for the horse and why does he think so, as stated in the poem “Stopping by woods in a snowy evening” by Robert Frost?

Why do the second and the fifth stanza of the poem “I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings” by Maya Angelou begin with ‘but’?