Questions and Answers

What does the poet say in response to the mournful complaints? Explain the Biblical reference made here.

The marks left on the space of time are compared to the footprints that we leave on the sand. But those footprints are just temporary. So does the poet think that our effort could have a temporary effect?

Give some examples to approve that the doctor’s mind ran at high speed whereas his body crept behind, as he says it in line 45-46 in Vikram Seth’s poem “The Doctors Journal Entry for August 6,1945”

What does the poet Brucellish K Sangma actually mean when she says ‘I firmly believe’ in her poem ‘I Believe’?

What were the two decisions taken by the doctor in Vikram Seth’s poem ‘A Doctor’s Journal Entry for August 6, 1945″? One is that they should leave for the hospital. What is the second?

How has the poet Nissim Ezekiel employed humour and irony in his poem ‘The professor’? or, Bring out the elements of humour and irony in the poem The Professor.

What significance does the word ‘but’ have in the 14th line of the poem ‘Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening’ by Robert Frost? “The woods are lovely, dark and deep. / But I have promises to keep,”

Do you think that the poet Michael Mack has romanticised war in his poem ‘Small Pain in My Chest’?

Comment on the opening of the poem ‘A Doctor’s Journal Entry for August 6, 1945’ by Vikram Seth. What’s special about this opening?

What does Sarojini Naidu’s poem ‘In The Bazaars of Hyderabad’ tell us about the artistic skill or level of the Indians at that time?