Based on poem COLD WITHIN
answer the following questions
QUESTIONS
✓ What brought the ‘six humans’ together? Where were they?
✓ What did each one possess>?
✓ Is there any significance of the logs of wood in the hands of the six persons? Explain.
✓ What could these persons have done?
✓ What happened to them?
✓ The poet refers to the ‘dying fire’ here. Who were sitting around it and why?
✓ What was the first/ second/ …. Why did she/he not feed the stick to the fire?
✓ What was needed for survival?
✓ Do you think that these people suffered from cold within? Justify.
✓ What does the poet tell us about the group?
✓ Were all the six persons unaware of the consequence of what they were doing? Explain.
✓ Comment on the six persons.
✓ What kind of sin did the men possess?
✓ What was the weather like when the men were trapped?
✓ Who among the six was an opportunist? What makes you say this?
✓ Is the title apt? Justify.
✓ What should the six persons have rightfully done?
✓ What were the prejudices in the minds of every human? (Only one adjective to describe every person)
✓ Did they not know that their act would lead to self-destruction? Give any one example where someone has ‘cut his nose to spite his face’.
Answers
Answer:1 happenstance brought them together..
2 a log of wood
3 a log of wood is a symbol of sin
Explanation:
Answer:
ANS.1. The 'Six Humans' were bought together by a situation which seems to have been arranged, though it was accidental. The bitter cold climate Bought The Six Men Together by chance. They were huddled by the side of fire that was on the verge of dying out any moment with a stick in each man's hand.
ANS.2. Each of the characters possessed a stick of wood.
ANS.3. Yes, the logs in the hands of six humans are symbolic of their sins like intolerance, racial discrimination which they still hold on to even after death.
ANS.4. Each person could have relinquished his log to keep the fire going and could have saved each other from dying in the cold.