No Men Are Foreign Summary Class 9 English Chapter 6

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hey everybody welcome to beaming knots
and today we're going to look at the
summary of the poem no men are foreign a
poem by James Kirk of setting of the
poem this poem is set in the arena of
the human mind the human mind is very
susceptible to being manipulated no
child is aware of xenophobia which is a
fear of foreigners from birth this fear
is in fact instilled into the human mind
as a child grows older and reaches
adulthood this fear is instilled by
military and religious groups the poet's
attack is directed specifically against
the armies of nations that fight with
other nations on the basis of wanting
ownership over disputed lands he says
that such armies teach us to hate people
who have been descended from the same
ancestors as us and who are therefore
our own brothers by being manipulated
through the brainwashing techniques of
such armies we end up endangering the
survival of the human species on earth
and the very destruction of the world as
we know it that is why the boil
encourages the readers to push
xenophobia out of their mind
summary lines 1 to 4
remember no men are strange no countries
fallen beneath all uniforms a single
body breeds like ours the land our
brothers walk upon is earth like this in
which we all shall lie the poem consists
of 20 lines in total these lines are not
divided into stanzas
however they are divided into meaningful
segments here but the purposes of the
summary in order to make the poem easier
to understand and follow this poem is
written in the first person hence we can
assume that the Speaker of the poem is a
poet himself in these lines the poet
tells his readers that men are not
different from each other simply on the
basis that they hail from separate
countries they might fight for the army
of this nation or that one but
underneath the uniform they are all
essentially similar your opponent Army's
soldiers live and breathe just as you do
most fights between the men of one
country and another result from disputes
over which from disputes over which
piece of land belongs to which nation
however all the land on earth is the
same moreover every man will have to lie
in the earth at one time or the other
that is all men have to die and all
pieces of land or potential graveyards
in that they can occasion a war for
their occupation summary lines 5 to 8
they too aware of Sun and air and water
are fed by peaceful harvests by Wars
long winter starved their hands are ours
and in their lines we read a labor not
different from our own
and these line support provides further
evidence of the unity of man he says
that those who hail from countries other
than our own also depend like we do on
Sun and air and water for their survival
they too have seen periods of peace and
periods of war in times of peace they
have had the assurance of a square meal
every day just like us again just like
us war has been a long winter to them
when food is scarce and every moment
brings the JED of an approaching famine
they look just like us and our
descendant from the same ancestors as we
our summary lines 9 to 12 remember they
have eyes like ours that weak or sleep
and strength that can be won by love in
every land is common life that all can
recognize and understand in this stanza
the port and treats his readers to keep
in mind that the fact that her opponents
sleep and weak just like we do and
follow the same pattern in life as us
every human being has an inner resource
of strength that they can use to help
their fellow beings however that
resource can only be unlocked by
following the path of love only when we
love someone can we stand up for them
that is why it is absolutely necessary
for every man to love his fellow beings
without creating divisions amongst them
despite the differences between various
nations there is one thing that they all
have in common the common people live in
the same kind of life everywhere
therefore you can recognize the presence
of that life no matter where you travel
in this wide world summary lines 13 to
15 let us remember whenever we are told
to hate our brothers it is ourselves
that we shall dispossess betray condemn
in this stanza the poet protests against
the efforts of military and religious
groups that encourage us to wage wars
against those of other persuasions the
port believes that those groups are
misguiding they're followers they're
asking their followers to hate people
without realizing that it is our own
brothers that we must hate this is a
form of self-destruction of the poet any
hatred that we may Harbor for any member
of the human race is tantamount our
betrayal towards the species and our
condemnation of its future if we kill
people of any other nation we are in
fact endangering the human species as a
whole and a survival on the earth
summary line 16 to 17 remember who we
who take arms against each other it is a
human earth that we defile in the stands
are the point provides further
implications of war he says that if we
the guardians of the earth were to die
out as a result of the war then there
would be no one left to take care of the
home that her ancestors had passed down
to us we would then have nothing to pass
down to our own future generations
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summary lines 18 to 20
our health of fire and dust outraged the
innocence of air that is everywhere our
own remember no men are foreign and no
country strange in this stanza the poet
compares war time with hell in war as in
hell there is fire and smoke everywhere
as a result of this the earth is
becoming poisoned the very air that we
breathe is becoming impure and will not
be able to sustain human life for much
longer that is why the poet encourages
us not to wage war on our fellow men
thinking that they are foreigners and
their countries are unlike our own
sensual idea the poet believes that war
is caused by false beliefs of people who
have ceased to believe in the essential
unity of man these are xenophobes who
believe that a man hailing from a
different country is to be hated and
discriminated against however the poet
assures his readers that a man is just
the same everywhere he experiences the
same joys and sorrows and has been
descended from the same ancestors
therefore he is justified in asking his
readers to do away with the xenophobia
and expel it from their minds and hearts
conclusion if readers are willing to
read between the lines of no men are
foreign they will see that the poet was
not just teaching us a lesson or warning
us about the endangered future he is
also showing us a contrary picture and
giving us a message of encouragement
he's showing that what an easy solution
there is to our problems we must learn
simply not to hate and then our world
would be a better place
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