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Mrs. DEEPKIRAN
COMPUTER FACULTY
ROLL NO.-80
CONTENTS
INTRODUCTION
SUMMARY
CENTRAL IDEA
PARAPHARASES AND EXPLANATION
OF THE POEM STANZA-WISE WITH
REFERENCE TO THE CONTEXT.
WORD MEANINGS
ACKNOWLEDGEMENT
THIS POEM CONTAINS A NOBLE AND INSPIRING
MESSAGE.
HERE IS THE POETRY IN THE SERVICE OF
MANKIND,POETRY WHICH AIMS AT INSTRUCTION
AND MORAL IMPROVEMENT.
THE POET TELLS US TO DEVELOP AN
INTERNATIONAL OUTLOOK.
THE IDEA OF THE POEM HAS BEEN TAUGHT BY
RELIGIOUS PROPHETS AND SOCIAL REFORMERS
ALL THE WORLD OVER FROM OLDEN TIMES.
THE POEM PREACHES THE LESSON OF
FATHERHOOD OF GOD AND THE BROTHERHOOD
OF MAN.
This poem teaches the lesson of
brotherhood of man. We should not
consider people belongings to other
countries as foreigners. People may wear
clothes of different colors and designs. But
under the different clothes their body is the
same. The earth on which they walk about is
the same as the ours . They shall be buried
under the same earth in which we shall be
buried. Like us the other people also feel
and enjoy the sun, the air and water. Like us
they reap harvests during peace; like us
they suffer from the shortages of essential
things during the war time. People from
other countries have hands like our own.
They work with their hands just as we work
with ours. They wake up and sleep like us.
There is much in common between different
races of the world. So we should not hate
other people. By hating people from other
countries we only deceive and lower
ourselves. We should not think of fighting
with other countries. By fighting against
other countries we only poison the air and
the earth that belong to us. As such hatred
of any kind is unwise. By hating people from
other countries we would not look upon
other people as our brothers. We should
believe in fatherhood of god and
brotherhood of man. We should develop an
international outlook. We should not live in
the watertight compartment of narrow
nationalism.
This poem is based on the idea that we are the
children of the same father God. As such we
should believe in the universal brotherhood of
man. The earth is the common property of the
mankind. We should not think that we are the
citizens of this or that country. We should give up
feelings of narrow nationalism. We should think
that we are the citizens of the world. In war all
countries suffer and in peace prosper. Therefore if
we hate others we deceive ourselves.
PARAPHARASES AND
EXPLANATION OF THE
POEM STANZA-WISE
WITH REFERENCE TO
THE CONTEXT.
REMEMBER NO MEN ARE STRANGE, NO COUNTRIES FOREIGN
BENEATH ALL UNIFORMS, A SINGLE BODY BREATHES
LIKE OURS; THE LAND OUR BROTHERS WALK UPON
IS EARTH LIKE THIS, IN WHICH WE ALL SHALL LIE.
THEY, TOO, AWARE OF SUN AND WATER,
ARE FED BY PEACEFUL HARVESTS BY WAR’S LONG WINTER STARV’D.
PARAPHRASES