Questions and Answers

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?

What are the two most highlighted ways to kill a man as described in the poem ‘Five ways to kill a man’ by Edwin Brock?

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

In ‘stopping by woods on a snowy evening’ by Robert Frost how did the poet know the owner of the woods?

Name of the poem-If, Author-Rudyard Kipling, Extract from second and third stanza: If you can bear…word about your loss