Questions and Answers

“I wasn’t too worried about all this. I’d trained, sweated and disciplined myself for six year, with the Games in mind.” — Which ‘Games’ are referred to here? Who wasn’t too worried about them?

What attributes of Tagore’s character are reflected in his poem ‘Where the mind is without fear’?

Do you think that Rabindranath Tagore believed in God? Answer from your reading of the poem ‘My Heaven’.

What is the background of the poem ‘Nine Gold Medals’ by David Roth?

The song ‘John Brown’ by Bob Dylan presents a contrast between fancy and reality of war. Elaborate.

E.M. Hemingway’s story “Old Man at the Bridge” starts with the old man sitting in “very dusty clothes” and ends with the man sitting down backwards “in the dust”. What does the “dust” signify here?

Explain the significance of the line “There was nothing to do about him” in the story “Old Man at the Bridge” written by Earnest Hemingway.

Write a note on the settings of the poem “Stopping by woods on a snowy evening” by Robert Frost.

What contrast does the poet draw between the children of today and the children of the past in the poem Television?

How does Nasira Sharma’s story ‘Hunger’ deal with the ideas that question of survival is the uppermost priority in the mind of poor?