Questions and Answers

How does the poet bring out the theme of the poem through the actions of the narrator in Michael Mack’s poem ‘Small Pain in My Chest’?

In Vikram Seth’s poem ‘A Doctor’s Journal  Entry For August 6,1945’, the doctor experienced something that he termed as ‘weird’. What was that?

Why according to the speaker in Nissim Ezekiel’s poem ‘The Professor’ “everything is happening with leaps and bounds”? How is everything changing?

I think ‘the angels at play’ in the poem ‘I Believe’ by Brucellish K Sangma could also signify the people who have left a mark in the society like described in the 4th stanza. Is it open to interpretations or […]

In Henry Wadsworth Longfellow’s poem ‘A Psalm of Life’ time is personified in the line ‘Time is fleeting’. What’s the possible reason?

What does the speaker mean by ‘shadowy forms of people’ in Vikram Seth’s poem ‘A Doctor’s Journal Entry for August 6’? Why were they looking so? Explain briefly the effect of bombing on them.

When was Longfellow’s poem ‘A Psalm of Life’ first published? What is the subtitle of the poem? Why is this subtitle used?

What enduring belief of the poet/speaker is expressed in the first two stanzas of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow’s poem ‘A Psalm of Life’? In what way does the poet justify the theme of the poem?

Explain the line “the role assigned to me here where I dream and breathe” from I Believe. or,  How is “where we dream and breathe” so important in the last stanza of I Believe by Brucellish K Sangma?

Do you think the poet is happy with his lonely state in the woods in Robert Frost’s poem Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening? Give reasons for your answer.