CBSE Class 7 English No Men Are Foreign Worksheet

Q1. Reference to Context -

        a.) ‘Remember, they have eyes like ours that wake

              Or sleep, and strength that can be won

              By love. In every land is common life

              That all can recognize and understand.’

              (i) What is the poet trying to convey through the above stanza?

             (ii) What does the poet mean by ‘strength that can be won by love?

       b.) ‘Let us remember, whenever we are told

              To hate our brothers, it is ourselves

              That we shall dispossess, betray and condemn…’

             (i) Who is being referred to as ‘brothers’ in the above lines?

            (ii) How do we dispossess, betray and condemn ourselves?

           (iii) Who tells ‘us’ to hate and when?

       c.) ‘It is human earth that we defile

             Our hells of fire and dust outrage the innocence

             Of air, that is everywhere our own…..’

              (i) How do we ‘defile’ earth?

             (ii) What ‘hells of fire and dust’ are being referred to?

            (iii) What does the poet mean by, ‘…. air that is everywhere our own’?

Q2. What message does the poet give through the poem? Discuss.