Question - Answers:
1. In the first stanza, the poet wonders about certain things. what are they?
Ans: In the first stanza, the poet wonders what makes a nation's pillars high and its foundation strong, and what gives it the strength too face its enemies.
2. What are the foundations of a strong kingdom built on?
Ans: The foundation of a strong kingdom are built on the strength and hard work off its people. It is also built on their honesty, bravery and truthfulness.
3. What happens to a nation which depends on an army to keep it strong?
Ans: A nation that depends only on its army becomes weak one day. Its empire fades away into history. The blood off its soldiers stains the land and its glory slowly disappears.
Ans: A nation that depends only on its army becomes weak one day. Its empire fades away into history. The blood off its soldiers stains the land and its glory slowly disappears.
4. When a nation becomes proud, what does God do?
Ans: When a nation becomes proud, God diminishes the lustre of its crown and turns it into ashes with one stroke.
Ans: When a nation becomes proud, God diminishes the lustre of its crown and turns it into ashes with one stroke.
5. Do you think that wealth can make a nation great and strong?
Ans: No, wealth can't make a nation great and strong. It is only men who can make a nation great and strong. The men who can stand fast for the sake of truth and honour can make their nation great and strong.
Ans: No, wealth can't make a nation great and strong. It is only men who can make a nation great and strong. The men who can stand fast for the sake of truth and honour can make their nation great and strong.
6. Do you think that wealth can make a nation great and strong?
Ans: Brave men can work hard for their nation. They work while others sleep. They dare while others fly. They build the pillars of a nation deep and lift them to the sky.
Ans: Brave men can work hard for their nation. They work while others sleep. They dare while others fly. They build the pillars of a nation deep and lift them to the sky.
7. Explain the following lines:
They build a nation's pillars deep
And lift them to the sky.
Ans: In these lines the poet wants to say that the men who are brave can make the foundations of a nation strong and take it to the great heights of glory.