CBSE ENGLISH LANGUAGE LITERATURE

Detailed explanation-1: -What does the poet mean when he says “Remember, no men are strange, no countries foreign”? Text Solution. Solution : The poet is making an impassioned plea telling readers to give up extreme nationalism and perceived differences between people belonging to different nations.

Detailed explanation-2: -In addition, he points out that during war and winter we starve and the people of another country also face the same things. So, the poet wants to say that we and foreigners of other countries are the same. Further, he says that they have the same hand as ours, and they work hard like us.

Detailed explanation-3: -Answer: Borders are responsible for the separation of different countries.

Detailed explanation-4: -The poet says that we should remember that no men on earth are strange and no countries foreign. Beneath (under) all the uniforms (clothes) there is a single body which breathes. In other words, all the people on the earth have same bodies. Hence we should never consider people from other countries as strangers.