Question

(b) How has the poet expressed the agony of Mother India?
(c) Does the poem give
a message of hope? Explain.​

Answer 1

Answer:

• Mother India is grieved at the death of her soldier sons in the war in foreign countries. She compares her sons who ‘lie with pale brows and brave, broken hands’ in foreign lands to ‘blossoms mown down by chance’. She loves her offspring so much as every mother does and that is why she is so grieved now at their ill fate.
• The message in Charlotte Brontë's poem “Life” is that we should be hopeful rather than hopeless and optimistic rather than pessimistic. ... In the third stanza, Brontë describes hope as “elastic,” meaning that no matter what pressure is exerted upon it, hope will always return.

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