English(Beehive) Class 9 : Lesson 6 (Poem) - No Men Are Foreign

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Lesson 6 (Poem)

No Men Are Foreign

- James Kirkup

I. Thinking about the Poem

Q.1. 

(i) “Beneath all uniforms…” What uniforms do you think the poet is speaking about ?
(ii) How does the poet suggest that all the people on earth are the same?
Ans:
(i) The poet is speaking about different cultures and civilisations of the world. All men are similar in many ways. There are differences in dresses, religions, ways of living but all have one common entity of being humans. Beneath each uniform, is the same human being everywhere.
(ii) The poet suggests that all people on earth are the same. They breathe, eat, wake in the same way. They all are aware of the sun, the air and the water. They all love peace and hate war. They have similar eyes that wake or sleep. The line “No men are foreign and no countries are strange” Accept this fact.


Q.2. In stanza 1, find five ways in which we all people on earth are the same?
Ans: (a) No men are strange and foreign.
(b) No countries strange.
(c) Single body breathes like ours.
(d) Same land our brothers wake upon.
(e) Same earth we live in.


Q.3. How many common features can you find in stanza 2 ? Pick out the words.
Ans: (a) Aware of sun and air and water
(b) Fed by peaceful harvest.
(c) Starved by war.
(d) Similar labour.

Q.4. ....Whenever we are to hate our brothers…." When do you think this happens ? Why? Who ‘tells’ us? Should we do as we are told at such times? What does the poet say?
Ans: These happens when some politicians having wested interest or the religious readers inside the masses to serve their on interest. They provoke the innocent people to indulge in antisocial activities. No, we should not obey them. We should always remember that we all are alike. By developing hatred for others, we harm ourselves only. The poet says that we all are brothers and sisters. We should do everything at our own direction.

Extra Questions

Q.1. Why does the poet think that no men are foreign?
Ans: The poet tells us that every individual has the same type of body, has similar needs, lead the same type of life in the same earth and go back to the same earth after death therefore all are alike.

Q.2. What do you understand by ‘peaceful harvests’?
Ans: Peaceful harvests refer to the crops grown and harvested during times of peace. The poet means to say that people can enjoy the bounties of nature during peaceful times.

Q.3. Elucidate- ‘War’s long winter starv’d’.
Ans: The phrase means that common agricultural activities cannot be carried on during war; hence people face deprivation and starvation during war. The times of war is compared with long winter when the land is covered by snow preventing people from enjoying bounties of nature.

Q.4. Why does the poet say ‘their hands are ours’?
Ans: the poet means to say that the hands of people we consider as foreign do the same kind of work as we do.

Q.5. Explain the extract – ‘and in their lines we read’.
Ans: Through their lines of writings and speech we can see that their thoughts are similar to ours. The lines in their faces also tell us that their labour that is the same as ours.