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 ---- UNDER
 UNIFORM --- DRESS
 FED --- GOT FOOD FROM
 RECOGNIZE --- KNOW
 DISPOSES --- TO ROB
 BETRAY --- DECEIVE
 CONDEMN --- CRITICISE
 DEFILE --- TO CORRUPT
 OUTRAGE --- DESTROY
SOURCES OF RESEARCH:-
1 – TEXT BOOK FOR ENGLISH
2 – INTERNET