CBSE ENGLISH LANGUAGE LITERATURE

CLASS 9

NO MEN ARE FOREIGN

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
The poet wants to promote the idea of
A
Development of Economy
B
Universal brotherhood
C
Development of nuclear weapons
D
Development of spaceships
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -He wants to promote the concept of universal brotherhood. In this poem, the poet wants to tell us that everyone in this world is same. All people, all men are same – they eat, live, die the same way. Everyone gets the bounties of nature like, sunshine, land etc in equal measure.

Detailed explanation-2: -The poet conveys the message of universal brotherhood through the poem. He says that the people living in other parts of the world are like us in many ways. There are many common things among the nations. All live, work, eat, walk and sleep in the same way.

Detailed explanation-3: -People of different countries have the same physical, mental and emotional experiences. Thus the poet considers everyone to be their brothers and wants everyone to be united as one rather than considering someone as foreign or strange.

Detailed explanation-4: -This poem is about all men being brothers–that all people are essentially the same. Brotherhood is important because it creates a feeling of oneness, thereby spreading speace and properity in the world. The poet reminds us this through the following lines. Our hands are the same and we all do the same work.

Detailed explanation-5: -Its objective is to bring together science, art and religion, for the purpose of intellectual improvement as well as spiritual education. The Universal Brotherhood’s goal is to unite people who wish to work towards the transcendence of the spirit, regardless of belief, nationality, gender and economic status.

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