POEM 3 - NO MEN ARE FORIEGN - 2MARKS

C1. Answer the following questions and share your responses with your partner.

1. What does the poet remind us in the first line of the poem?

Ans: The poet reminds us in the first line of the poem as the no men are strange and no countries are foreign.

2. What, according to the poet are we doing when we hate others?

Ans: According to poet are we doing when we hate others mean to hate our brothers we also hate ourselves.

3. What are the two bad effects of war? Read the lines from 16 to 19 and answer.

Ans: The two bad effects of war are:

i) We pollute the earth when we war against each other with fire arms.

ii) fire and dust outrage the innocence of air everywhere.

Read and Write:

C2. Read and discuss your responses with your partner. Then write.

1. How do you think we are all treated alike by nature?

Ans: We think that all treated alike by nature. Nature provides us all natural resources. All are equal to nature it not treat as differences for different man. 

2. Read the third stanza carefully. What message does the poet want to convey?

Ans: The poet wants us to convey that all men are common and all are has eyes like ours they also sleep and wake. All men are most powerful and they lost their strength against the strength of the love. All can recognize and understood.

3. Do you agree with poet that we should wage no war? How do you justify that?

Ans: Yes, we agree with poet that we should wage no war. When we are told to hate our brothers it is became we shall dispossess, disloyal and condemn ourselves. When we take fire arms against each other the human earth will pollute or corrupt. Our hells of fire and dust effects on the innocence people.

4. Some are of the opinion that the poet might have written this poem after witnessing the bad effects of the Second World War. Mention some of the lines in the poem to support that opinion.

Ans: ‘’They, too aware of sun and air and water,

Are fed by peaceful harvests, by war’s long winter starv’d.’’ 

5. Briefly describe how a war spoils everything.

Ans: This is the human earth we violate. By a war between each other its harm affects on the innocence people. The harmful bombs effects on the people. For example, In World war many innocence people were died and some were had wounds. The harmful fire and dust effected on the air of the place. War spoils everything by its harmful atoms used in the fire.