Questions and Answers

In Rabindranath Tagore’s poem ‘Where the Mind is Without Fear’ the poet says “Where the mind is led forward by thee…”. Whose mind do you think is to be led forward and where?

Do you like the way Michael Mack’s poem ‘Small Pain in My Chest’ ends?

In Brucellish K Sangma’s poem ‘I Believe’, how does the poet/ speaker want to adorn herself and why as stated in fourth stanza of the poem?

What traits of the poet can be made out through her point of view in the poem ‘If Thou Must Love Me’ by Elizabeth Barrett Browning? Are her conditions justifiable?

Comment on the use of symbolism in the poem ‘A Doctor’s Journal Entry  for  August 6 1945’ by Vikram Seth.

What did the Abbot of Aberbrothok do? Who ‘blest’ (blessed) him and why?

In the poem ‘Small Pain in My Chest’ by Micheal Mack, the narrator says “I could feel our wounds were pressed/ The large one in my heart against the small one in his chest.” Why is the narrator’s pain referred […]

What qualities of the soldier make him stand apart? / Give a character sketch of the soldier boy.

Why do you think that the narrator cannot recall what happened after the soldier boy died in the poem ‘Small pain in my chest’ By Michael Mack? Is it normal that he can’t remember his actions?

What is the symbolic meaning of ‘pierce the heavens’ in the poem ‘I Believe’ by Brucellish K Sangma?