Explain the second stanza and the fourth stanza of the poem "No Men are Foreign"
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stanza 2
They, too, aware of sun and air and water,
Are fed by peaceful harvests, by war’s long winter starv’d.
Their hands are ours, and in their lines we read
A labour not different from our own.
Explanation:
In this stanza the poet refers to the similarities between the people he belongs and the people from other state or region . By ‘They’ he talks of people who belong to other state , region, country . Other people too are aware of the “sun and air and water” mean Others also experience nature and its phenomenon in same manners as we do . When there is no war i.e In peace time, we all enjoy the yields of the harvest and live happily. But during wars and winter, we all starve. Further, people of different countries too have the same hands ( Four fingers one thumb) and They work hard in the same way as we and do.
Stanza 4
Let us remember, whenever we are told
To hate our brothers, it is ourselves
That we shall dispossess, betray, condemn.
Remember, we who take arms against each other
It is the human earth that we defile.
Explanation :
In the fourth stanza of the poem, The poet suggests everyone to remember if someone hates the other in the name of the country, it is his own self the person hates. By hating “our brothers” means fellow human beings we deprive, cheat, and condemn our own selves. Further, he adds, when we take arm to fight with other, the loss is common to both the side and we spoil and damage our own home as we all are basically human beings living on same planet earth.