CBSE ENGLISH LANGUAGE LITERATURE

Detailed explanation-1: -Answer. Answer: His own brothers are fed by peaceful harvests, by war’s long winter starv’d. when he compares war with winter since reduced resources are available at both those sides.

Detailed explanation-2: -Just as there are no crops in winter, war renders a land barren. That is why there is a shortage of food in winters and in times of war, too, there is deprivation and famine. People starve to death. Thus, starvation is associated with war and with winter.

Detailed explanation-3: -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-4: -This is from the poem no men are foreign. ’Wars long winter starv’d’ here means that the people are fed by this war of starvation which they are fetching for a very long time.

Detailed explanation-5: -As in war, there is fire, death, and bloodshed. The dead bodies make the earth impure. The war pollutes the earth and impures the air. Lastly, the poet writes the first line in reverse saying remember, no men are foreign, and no countries are strange.