SECTION-C
(Literature : Textbooks
Read the given extract carefully and answer the questions that follow :
1x4
Those who prepare green wars,
wars with gas, wars with fire,
victory with no survivors.
would put on clean clothes
and walk about with their brothers
in the shade, doing nothing
0) What do you think is meant by 'green wars'?
(ii) How are the wars fought?
(iii) Pick out the phrase that underlines the inhumanity of war.
(iv) How, according to the poet, can men come out of their love of wars and
like brothers ?
Answers
Answer:
Question 1:
Name the different kinds of war mentioned in the above lines. What does the poet mean by ‘Green wars?
Answer:
Green wars i.e. wars against nature, wars with poisonous gases and wars with firearms are the different kinds of war. ‘Green wars’ means wars against the environment. Warring nations keep on developing new ‘weapons’ to wage war against the environment.
Question 2:
Explain ‘victory with no survivors’.
Answer:
The poet wants to convey the message that war brings destruction and leaves none to celebrate victory. No one can gain anything by waging wars.
Question 3:
What does the poet want the warmongers to do?
Answer:
The poet wants the warmongers to put on clean clothes, the clean clothes symbolising shedding their evil ways to make peace with their brothers.
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