English Confluence By CL Gautam

Poem-6 No Men are Foreign by James Kirkup      Textual Questions Q1. "Beneath all uniforms.... What uniforms do you think the poet is speaking about? Ans. By 'uniforms' the poet means the different dresses that the people wear in different parts of world. It may mean the different uniforms of military of different countries Q2. How does the poet suggest that all people on earth are the same? Ans. People across the world possess the same kind of body. They get light from the same sun, breathe the same air and drink the same water. They all feed themselves with the crop which is grown during the time of peace and starve during the time of war. Q3. In stanza 1, find five ways in which we all are alike. Pick out the words. Ans. We possess the same kind of body. We breathe the same air. We walk upon the same earth. We live in the same world. And we all will get buried in the same earth after death. Q4. How many common features can you find in stanza 2. Pick out the word. ...

Poem-6 No Men are Foreign by James Kirkup     Introduction of the Poet James Falconer Kirkup (April 23, 1918-May 10, 2009) was a prolific English poet, writer and translator: He wrote over 30 books (including autobiographies, novels and plays), many dozen collections of poetry, six volumes of autobiography, over a thousand short pieces in joumals and periodicals, and hundreds of monographs of original work and translations His first book of poetry was The Drowned Sailor which was published in 1947. He became the first resident university poet in the United Kingdom. He was felicitated with the Japan PE.N. Club Prize for Poetry in 1965. A Brief Summary of the Poem This anti-war poem emphasises on the futility of wars. The poet lays emphasis that no men are strange and no countries are foreign. People wear different kinds of uniforms but the bodies beneath them remain the same. Similarly, the whole earth is one land. We are brothers as we walk on the same land. All the peopl...