Question

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.



1) What does the poet try to convey through the above extract?

2) Find the ways in which we all are alive?

3) What does the poet wants to convey through the phrase " a single body breathes."?


Ch - No Men Are Foreign
Class 9th

Answer 1

1) The poet was speaking of uniforms that soldiers wear during war time.  

2) All of us breathe, walk, lie, and have same body and we live and die on earth.  

3) The poet wants to convey that if we fight against them, we tend to kill ourselves and condemn.

Answer 2

1) The poet want to convey the message that no men are strange means all are our brothers no one is strange and no country is foreign means we all are brother and we all love peace and hate war so we should live with peace and unity.

2)We all breathe, eat or walk on the same way and on the same earth we live.

3) Through this phrase the poet want to convey the message that there are differences in the dresses, religion and way of living but beneath all uniforms there is same human being everywhere.