CLASS 9
NO MEN ARE FOREIGN
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Question
[CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
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Winter is too harsh to survive
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Winter brings peaceful harvests
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Every man starves during winter in a same way. No one’s an exception
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Man is too weak to starve during winters. Hence one needs to harvest.
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Detailed explanation-1: -Answer: The poet means by this statement that people are starved during wars and he compares to the long winters that do not seem likely to be gone shortly.
Detailed explanation-2: -Text Solution. Solution : If a war is raging in a country, then that country faces the threat of starvation since all agricultural production comes to a halt. Just as there are no crops in winter, war renders a land barren.
Detailed explanation-3: -Q6. Why does the poet call harvests ‘peaceful’ and war as ‘winter’? Ans: Harvests are called ‘peaceful’ because they bring abundance and prosperity and they thrive in peaceful times only. War, on the other hand, is like the severe and harsh ‘winter’ that ruins the crops and starves people.
Detailed explanation-4: -The poet calls war-long winter, because war means shortage of food, suspension or rather cessation of all kinds of creating activities, including cultivation.
Detailed explanation-5: -What does the poet mean when he says, ‘worn them really about the same’? Answer-The poet means to relay to the readers that both the roads that diverged in a yellow wood seemed similar and both of them looked as if they had not been used for a while.