Question

Read the extracts given below and answer the questions that follow.  


Remember, no men are strange, no countries foreign
Beneath all uniforms, a single body breathes
Like ours: the land our brothers walk upon
Is earth like this, in which we all shall lie.

(a) Who does the poet address in the poem?

(b) What does the word “uniform” mean?

(c)  What breathes beneath all uniforms?

(d) What is the irony in uniform?

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Answer 1

(a) Who does the poet address in the poem?

Ans -In this poem, the poet uses “uniforms” to mean both the uniforms worn by soldiers and the varied traditional dresses belonging to different cultures and civilisations of the world, or the different clothes that symbolise who the wearers are. Beneath all uniforms lies the same human body.