1. “I wait” is repeated five times in the poem. What quality of the speaker is highlighted with this repetition?
Ans.: Human beings are troubling the earth. They say that they own the lands proclaim that the land is theirs. Mother earth has an ocean of patience and bears all the cruelty committed by man.
2. Bring out the contrast between the speaker and the reader in the poem, “I am the land”.
Ans.: The speaker in the poem is land. It says that it is always patient and bears all that is done to it. The reader uses the land in many ways. He digs the land, grows fruits and trees and even fights for land.
3. What are the activities which go on over the land?
Ans.: Man buys land, digs land and plants trees, grows fruit on it. Children dance and play on land. Man also fences and makes boundaries over the land.
4. “You cannot put a fence Around the planet Earth” Is this a tone of weakness or self-assertion? Give reason for your answer.
Ans.: It is a tone of self-assertion. The poet mocks at those who are greedy. They wage wars to acquire more land. The earth has given everything to us. Whatever injustice we are doing, the earth bears everything patiently. We cannot put a fence around the mother earth.
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