CBSE Class 9 English Chapter 6 : My Childhood Poem – Download Free PDF Notes
My Childhood is the fifth chapter of class 9 English textbook Beehive. It is an extract of APJ Abdul Kalam’s book the Wings of Fire.
This chapter takes us to the childhood days of our beloved former President and Scientist, Dr. APJ Abdul Kalam. It is an inspiring chapter and should be read sincerely. The best source to study this chapter is from the study material provided by GharPeShiksha. The study material available at the website of GharPeShiksha has helped numerous students to enhance their understanding of this chapter and its teachings. The material contains the vocabulary of the chapter with meaning, textbook exercise questions with solutions, previous year questions with solutions, important questions that may come in the exam, teachings of the chapter, model answer sheet, and many more things all compiled by expert teachers. You can download the PDFs through the website of GharPeShiksha.
No Men are Foreign
No Men are Foreign is the sixth poem of class 9 English textbook Beehive. In this poem, the poet James Kirkup asserts that all human beings are equal. It is a beautiful poem, and through this, the poet expresses his feelings that all men eat, live, and die in the same way. Nature’s gifts, such as sunshine and land, are distributed equally to everybody. It is imperative to understand this poem to reproduce it in the examination. Students can supplement their reading with the PDF Notes provided by GharPeShiksha. The study material available at the website of GharPeShiksha has helped numerous students to enhance their understanding of this chapter and its teachings.
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No Men are foreign Poem 6
Short Questions (2 Marks)
Question 1 : What does the poet mean by saying “no men ……….. Counties foreign?
Answer : By saying this, the poet means that the whole world is a singular entity despite
all the possible differences in it and all the
diversities of language, cate, colour etc.
Question 2 : Does the earth unite us in a sense? If yes, explain in the context of the
poem.
Answer : Yes, the earth does unite us in one of the most beautiful senses. It is the earth
that we walk upon and after our lives, we all shall lie inside it, which is our destined end.
Question 3 : In which context, ‘harvests’ and ‘war’ have been used by the poet?
Answer : ‘Harvest’ is symbolic to peace, when one does the cropping work in order to
feed oneself, while ‘war’ has been used to show an intensity that is similar to starvation
and destruction.
Question 4 : How is the labour not different for us and the so called
strangers?
Answer : The labour is not different for us and for the so called strangers because all of
us have to do it for survival on a regular basis. Also, the hands and the mechanism we
use are same.
Question 5 : How are the eyes of everyone similar according to the poet?
Answer : We have the same eyes as our so called strangers have. As our eyes wake and
sleep so do theirs. As we dream of something, so do they. Hence, our eyes are similar.
Question 6 : What meaning does the poet imply by saying “strength that can be won
by love”?
Answer : By saying this, the poet wants to imply the meaning that even the mightiest
one can be conquered (won over) by the invincible (unbeatable) power of love. Love
has that much capability which can be used to create wonders.
Question 7 : How can we say that there is a common life in every part of the land?
Answer : It can be said that there is common life everywhere. We share same resources
and we all do labour. We are psychologically similar and we do understand the pain and
please equally.
Question 8 : How do we hate our brothers? Is it right?
Answer : We hate our brothers by taking arms against them, by judging them wrong
and by seeing them as counterparts (replica). This is not right as when we hate others, we
dispossess ourselves.
Long Questions (8 Marks)
Question 1 : The poet has used various ways to establish the fact that we all are
same. Explain these ways in accordance with the poem.
Answer : This poem is a revelation of the fact that the whole world is a union. Nothing is
strange or foreign. No person or no country can be categorised to be strange. We are the
people, who share this common land and hence, we can affair that we are the same.
Despite being from different countries, speaking different languages, believing in
different religions, we all are same – the human beings.
We feel pain the pleasure equally. We put our best and devoted and efforts in the form of
labour to procure the harvest. We are afraid of the war and rejoice at love. We share
similar resources over the earth and our hatred is harmful for the earth. Keeping all
these in mind, the poet has tried his best to establish the fact that we all are same.
Question 2 : Explain how does our hatred, jealousy and misdeed pollute our own
earth.
Answer : The world is a union i.e. all the way a singular entity. We may belong to different
nations, may speak different languages, may believe in different religions, but still we are
same. Every person on this earth is our brother. If we are in brotherhood, we can
share the joys of being together and enjoy the peace. But, if we stand against our fellow
men, who are our brothers, and start a war with them, then we are polluting our own
earth. We only lack our strength of character, but we are also criticising our own values. Our
misdeeds, hatred and jealousy have no end which is a severe blow to the humanity and
its concern. Therefore, we must remain intact to our values, to our ethics and to our dignity.
Only these things can keep our earth away from being polluted and will remain a place
to live in beautifully. Value based questions
Question 1.All great persons tell us to live cordially as brothers. But we people tend to fight over
trivial issues. Why don’t we live with others people harmoniously? What makes us fight
and hurt other?
Answer: It is true that many people have been telling us to live harmoniously since long. We
never follow their message. We also know it that our greed to get more wealth and
power cannot give us peaceful life. But some deep-rooted evils in our society make
us draw a distinction between people. We know that all customs and conventions
have been made by people. God has made all people equal. But we make differences
between people for our selfish motives. We start to hate even our family members due
to our ego to be more powerful. By doing so, we at last harm ourselves. We became
the objects of hatredness for society. In society, people dislike selfish people.
So before going to hurt other’s feeling, first of all we should think whether doing such
act with others are justified by other people or society. We should learn to live with
others as brothers. We should learn to tolerate, forgive and compromise. Only in
this way, our life would be happy and peaceful.
