Questions and Answers

How does the professor in Nissim Ezekiel’s poem The Professor play the role of a middle class person?

Give any five characteristics of Shylock’s character in MERCHANT OF VENICE by William Shakespear. Analyze each in detail.

Who are the characters in the poem ‘A Doctor’s Journal Entry for August 6, 1945’ by Vikram Seth? Who is narrating the poem?

Name of the Poem: The Heart of the Tree Author: Henry Cuyler Bunner

In the poem In the bazaars of Hyderabad by Sarojini Naidu, is the bazaar for satisfying basic needs or for people who shop for luxuries?

True happiness lies neither in material possessions nor in knowledge or learning: Prove this statement in the light of the story The Bet by Anton Chekhov.

Do you think that the soldier boy in Michael Mack’s poem Small Pain in My Chest was aware that he would succumb to his injury? Give reasons in support of you answer.

Please explain the phrase “mournful numbers” in the poem “A Psalm of Life” by H.W.Longfellow.

Why do you think the poem In the Bazaars of Hyderabad by Sarojini Naidu ends with a mention of people who have died?

The poet Rabindranath Tagore has expressed his ideas of ideal freedom in the poem ‘Where the Mind is Without Fear’. Do those ideas hold any truth in today’s modern world?