No Men Are Foreign
James Kirkup
1. Word-Meaning
Foreign= concerning the affairs of other countries (other than your own).
Beneath= under, below.
Uniforms= dresses, clothes.
Breathes= take air into the lungs.
Aware= having knowledge or understanding.
Harvests= the process or period of gathering in crops.
Strength= physically or mentally strong.
Recognise= to know.
Dispossess= take away.
Betray= reveal unintentionally; forsake.
Condemn= express strong disapproval of.
Defile= make dirty or having spots.
Hells of fire= fire caused by war.
Outrage the innocence of= violate the purity of.
2. Choose the correct answer from the alternatives given below.
(a) The poet says we defile the earth when we-
(i) take arms against each other
(ii) spiteonit
(iii) throw garbage everywhere
(iv) insult each other.
Ans= (i) Take arms against each other.
(b) The Sun and air and water are starved-
(i) by absence of rain
(ii) by war's long winter
(iii) by the curse of gods
(iv) by worshiping the devil.
Ans:- (ii) By war's long winter.
(c) We betray ourselves when we-
(i) don't tell the truth
(ii) lie to our brothers
(iii) hate our brothers
(iv) lie to our mothers.
Ans:- (iii) Hate our brothers.
(d) In hating our brothers we -
(i) defile ourselves
(ii) make people sad
(iii) defile the earth
(iv) make the earth bad.
Ans:- (a) defile ourselves.
(e) Defile means -
(i) deprive (ii) narrow
(iii) pollute (iv) betray
Ans:- (iii) pollute.
3. (i) "Beneath all uniforms..." What uniforms do you think the poet is speaking about?
(ii) How does the poet suggest that all people on earth are the same?
Ans:- The poet is speaking about-
(i) “Uniforms” as different nationalities all over the world.
(ii) According to the poet a single human body breathes under different nationalities.
4. Name the poet of the poem "No Men Are Foreign".
Ans:- James Kirkup.
5. How many common features can you find in stanza 2? Pick out the words.
Ans:- The common features are —
(i) They are fed by peaceful harvests.
(ii) They are aware of air, water and sun.
(iii) They are starved by war's long winter.
(iv) The lines in the palms of their hands are the same as in our hands.
(v) They all work as we do.
6. What happened when we hate our brothers?
Ans:- If we hate our brothers, we will deprive ourselves.
7. What should we do whenever we are told to hate our brothers?
(Or) What happens when 'we are told to hate our brothers'?
Ans:- We are told to hate our brothers, we must remember that we are told to hate ourselves. If we do so, we deprive ourselves. The innocence of the pure air is outraged and we betray ourselves.
8. What does the poet James Kirkup ask up to remember?
Ans:- According to the poet we must remember all the people in the world are our brothers and sisters. Nobody is foreign. People in every country are the same in body and spirit.
9. How, according to the poet, are all people same on earth?
(Or) How does the poet suggest that all people on earth are the same?
Ans:- The poet suggests us that all people on there same. According to him, all people are aware of sun, air and water. They feel on harvest and starve during war time. Their hands are like ours. He also suggests us that we must remember all people in the world are our brothers and sisters. People in every country are the same in blood and spirit.
10. What message does the poet want to convey through the poem "No men Are Foreign"?
Ans:- The poet wants to convey the message through his poem that people are the same in body and spirit everywhere in the world
11. How can we win others according to the - poet James Kirkup?
Ans:- According to the poet we can win others by love. The poet says that all the people have eyes like us. They have same strength as we have. Their strength can be owned only by love and affection.
12. How do we defile our earth?
(Or) What happens if we take arms against each other?
Ans:- The poet says that no men are foreign and no country strange. If we take arms against each other than our earth will defile. The hells of fire and dust will destroy our world.
13. 'That we dispossess' means –
(a) we lose everybody
(b) we fall from our own lives
(C) we betray ourselves
(d) we hate others
Ans:- (b) We fall from our own lives.
Mr. Rupjyoti Goswami
Post Graduate Teacher (English)
Bhogeswar Hazarika Girls' Higher Secondary School, Bebejia, Nagaon, Assam.
Email: rupjyotigoswami983@gmail.com
Mobile: 9864425896.
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