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and make it impure with the huge mounds of dead bodies strewn
on it.

NCERT QUESTIONS & ANSWERS (to be done in class work note
book)

1. (i) “Beneath all uniforms . ..” What uniforms do you think the
poet is speaking about?
Ansi) The poet thinks about the various dresses that people of different
countries wear but beneath them the human body that we all possess is
the same.
(ii) How does the poet suggest that all people on earth are the
same?
Ansii) The poet says that nobody is different and peculiar. No country is
foreign. A single body breathes beneath all uniforms. Moreover, the land
is the same everywhere. The poet says that all the people are the same
in the following ways –
i. we belong to one human race
ii. we walk on the same Earth
iii. Upon death, we will lie in our graves in the same Earth
iv. During peace we all enjoy the bounties of nature
v. During war and in the winter season, we all starve due to shortage of
food
vi. We all do a lot of labour with our hands
vii. We have eyes which function in the same way

2. In stanza 1, find five ways in which we all are alike. Pick out the
words.
Ans2) All the human beings on the Earth are similar. We all move on the
same land (Earth). We all possess the same body and the same eyes,
which wake and sleep in the same manner. Besides this, we all enjoy
the same air, sun and water and we all feed ourselves on the same
harvest.

3. How many common features can you find in stanza 2? Pick out
the words.
Ans3) The common features in stanza two are:- (i) Sun (ii) air (iii) water
(iv) Peaceful harvests required for human survival (v) same hands.

4. “...whenever we are told to hate our brothers ...” When do you
think this happens? Why? Who „tells‟ us? Should we do as we are
told at such times? What does the poet say?