Class 9 Beehive Poem Chapter 6 Question Answers - No Men Are Foreign

Q1: Who was the writer of the poem “No Men are Foreign”?
Ans: The writer of the poem "No Men Are Foreign" is James Kirkup.

Q2: What is responsible for the separation of different countries?
Ans: Borders are responsible for the separation of different countries.

Q3: What does the poet want to remove?
Ans: The poet wants to remove all the borders from the Earth.

Q4: What is the same in all the countries?
Ans: Nature – and the parts of nature like sun, rain, air, water all are the same in all the countries.

Q5: Who does 'they' refer to in the second stanza of the poem?
Ans: In the second stanza, the word 'they' refers to the foreign people.

Q6: When do people starve?
Ans: People starve during times of winter and war.

Q7: What is the common thing between every land?
Ans: Life is the only common thing between every land.

Q8: What can be won by love?
Ans: Strength can be won by love.

Q9: When will there be no wars?
Ans: When we understand that people from other countries are like us, then there will be no wars.

Q10: To whom were we told to hate?
Ans: We were told to hate our brothers, people from other countries.

Q11: What is the meaning of defile?
Ans: Defile means pollute.

Q12: What do we defile?
Ans: We defile the human earth.

Q13: What should we remember?
Ans: We should remember that "no men are foreigners and no countries are strange."