Question 1.
1 “Beneath all uniforms…” What uniforms do you think
the poet is speaking about?
2 How does the poet suggest that all people on earth are
the same?
Answer:
1 The poet speaks about the various dresses that people
of various countries wear but beneath them, the human
body is same.
2 The poet says that nobody is different and peculiar. No
country is foreign. A single
3 body breathes beneath all uniforms. Moreover, the land
is the same everywhere.
Question 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 wear same kind of clothes. We walk on the
same planet, and the end of each individual is the
same.
Question 3.How many common features can you find in
stanza 2? Pick out the words.Answer:The following
common features are given in the stanzas:
1 sun
2 air
3 water,
4 Peaceful harvests required for human survival
5 same hands
Question 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:Sometimes some
selfish people instigate the innocent to harm others.
They do it for their own benefit. The common or
ordinary man does not understand 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 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.
