Oh! Defenders of borders You are great sons of my land When we are all asleep You still hold on to your deed. Windy season or snowy days Or scorching sun’s sweltering rays You are there guarding all the time awake Treading the lonely expanses as Yogis. Climbing the heights or striding the valleys Defending the deserts and guarding the marshes Surveillance in seas and by securing the air Prime of your youth given to the nation!! Wind chimes of my land vibrate your feat We pray for you brave men!! May the Lord bless you all!!
Questions: i) Whom is the poem dedicated to?
ii) What do they do for their country?
iii) Identify the figure of speech in the line --- Treading the lonely expanses as Yogi iv) What does the poet express through the last two lines?
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- Although the poem is addressed to his son, John, who died in World War I, Kipling's poem is looked upon as providing a universal message on how to be a virtuous, mature human being.
- Keep your country clean. 'Clean' in every sense of the word. Keeping the system clean by not giving into corrupt practices, keeping the surroundings clean, keeping envinronment clean. Cast your vote.
- Simile is one of the most used figures of speech in Sanskrit and English . Celebrated Sanskrit poet Kalidas and English bard William Shakespeare have used this beautiful rhetorical device in their works of art . In the sentence ' Treading the lonely expanses as yogis ' simile figure of speech has been experimented
- The last two lines of the poem mean the acceptance of reality.
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