English Beehive Class 9 No Men Are Foreign Questions And Answers

        No Men Are Foreign.

Thinking about the poem

1.(i) " Beneath all uniforms....." What uniforms do you think the poet is speaking about?

Answer:-

    The poet speaks about the various dresses that people of various countries where but beneath them the human body  is same.

(ii) How does the poet suggest that       all people on earth are the same?

Answer:-

    The poet says that      nobody is different and peculiar. No  country is foreign. A single body breathes and beneath all uniforms. Moreover, the land is same everywhere.

2. In stanza 1,find five ways in which we all are alike.Pick out the words.

Answer:-

     In the first stanza the poet says that there is no difference between the body of a citizen of one country and the citizen of another country. We have same kind of body ; we were same kind of clothes .we walk on the same planet and the end of all individuals is the same. 

3. How many common features can you find in stanza 2 ? Pick out the words.

Answer:-

    The following common features are given in the stanza,

a. Sun 

b. Air

c. Water 

d. Peaceful harvests required for human survival

e. Same hands.

4. ".... whenever we are told 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?

Answer:-

    Some time some selfish people instigate the innocent to harm others. They do it for their own benefit. The common their  tricks and starts hating his fellow human beings. They tell them to cause riots. The poet says that one should not follow anybody's advice without out brooding over it. The poet repeatedly says that there is no difference  in them and the foreigners. The people of the entire world are the same.