Question

Contrast between john brown and the gift of India

Answer 1

Explanation:

16-Nov-2019 · 2 answers

The poem reflects the sacrifices of Indian soldiers for the agitation of France. It tells that the Indian soldiers' sacrificed themselves for someones else country. Rather than that, they were not rewarded as they meant to be. John Brown caused the Civil War by leading a raid and ignited a nationwide uprising.

Answer 2

Answer:

SIMILARITIES AND DISSIMILARITIES BETWEEN THE TWO POEMS  

Explanation:

In the poem John Brown, John Brown’s mother is proud to see her son become a soldier and go to war as it will win him many medals and glory similarly in The Gift of India mother India is also proud of her sons but for different reason, she is proud of her sons as by going to war they are keeping her commitment to the foreign nations. John Brown’s mother is happy to see her son become a soldier and go to the war in contrast to mother India whose sons were torn from her breast.  

In John Brown the poem is narrated in third person but both John Brown's mother and John Brown’s point of view is given. John Brown is at first very excited to go to war. He too is proud of himself, like his mother and he too like his mother wants to gain glory in war but when he does fight a war, he figures out that he is only a puppet in play and so at this point his view on war changes. Now he believes that war is futile and that there is no point to it. The Gift of India is narrated from mother India's point of view and her sons’ point of view is not given so we do not know how they feel about the war.  

At the end of the poem John Brown, John Brown's mother is shocked to see her son like that, so much so that she cannot even look at him. John Brown drops his medals into his mother’s hand which shows that he has deep contempt for his mother as a result of her pushing him to become a soldier and fight in the war. In The Gift of India at the end of the poem mother India asks us to offer memorial thanks to the commanders who fought in the Dauntless ranks, to honour the deeds of the deathless ones and to remember the blood of her martyred sons. There seems to be no bad blood between son and mother at the end of this war.