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PREPARED BY: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 No country should be regarded as foreign. No people should be thought foreigners. People of different countries wear different kinds of clothes but under the clothes the human body is same everywhere. The earth on which people of other countries walk is the same on which we walk. All human beings, no matter to which country they belong, move on the same earth and will be buried in the same earth. People of other lands feel the sun and air and water just as we do. During peace time they prosperous and during war time they experience distress and scarcity of food as we do.

CONTEXT These lines are taken from the poem ‘NO MEN ARE FOREIGN’ written by JAMES KIRKUP. This poem gives us the message of universal brotherhood of man.

PARAPHRASES They have hands as we have. We must realize that they have eyes as we and they perform the same labour with their hands as we do. They are strong and powerful like us and they can be won by love. There is a bond which unites all the nations of the world. This can be understood and recognized by everyone.

EXPLANATION These lines are taken from the poem ‘NO MEN ARE FOREIGN’ written by JAMES KIRKUP. This poem preaches a lesson of brotherhood of man. He advises us not to hate any belongings to other countries.

LET US REMEMBER, WHENEVER WE ARE TOLD TO HATE OUR BROTHERS, IT IS OURSELVES THAT WE SHALL DISPOSSESS, BETRAY, CONDEMN. REMEMBER, WE WHO TAKE ARM AGAINST EACH OTHER, IT IS THE HUMAN EARTH THAT WE DEFILE, OUR HELL OF FIRE AND DUST OUTRAGE THE INNOCENCE OF AIR THAT IS EVERYWHERE OUR OWN. REMEMBER, NO MEN ARE FOREIGN, AND NO COUNTRIES STRANGE.

PARAPHRASES The people of other countries are our brothers. We should not, therefore, listen to those who ask us to hate other nations. By hating other nations we shall be robbing ourselves; we shall be going against our own interest; we shall be committing a serious crime. By fighting against other nations, we pollute that very air which we breathe. The clouds of fire and smoke file those very areas which belong to us. We should bear in mind that men all over the world are our brethren.

CONTEXT These are closing lines of the poem ‘NO MEN ARE FOREIGN’ written by JAMES KIRKUP. This poem preaches a lesson of love and understanding among all the people of the world. He wants us to understand that we all are children of the same father, GOD. We should realize that we are the members of the world community.

EXPLANATION In these lines the poet says that when we hate others, we actually rob, deceive and condemn our ownselves. When we fight against others we defile (spoil) the purity of our own earth. The fire and smoke from the weapons of war poison that very air which is everywhere and which we all breathe.

WORD MEANINGS  BENEATH  UNIFORM  FED  RECOGNIZE  DISPOSES  BETRAY  CONDEMN  DEFILE  OUTRAGE

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UNDER DRESS GOT FOOD FROM KNOW TO ROB DECEIVE CRITICISE TO CORRUPT DESTROY

SOURCES OF RESEARCH:1 – TEXT BOOK FOR ENGLISH 2 – INTERNET