English - Poetry Chapter 6: The Soldier short Answer Questions

Short Questions Answer

Question 1.Is the speaker afraid of death?

Answer:No, the speaker is not afraid of death. He would be given a comer of the foreign field.

Question 2.If at all he dies in the battle, how would he like to be remembered?

Answer:If at all he dies in the battle, he would like to be remembered as an unforgettable soldier who never feared death. He would be given flowers of love and buried in some comer of land which is part of England.

Question 3.How can ‘some corner of a foreign field’ be “forever England?”

Answer:His (poet’s) grave will be in some comer of a foreign land. In that way, it will be “forever England”.

Question 4.“In that rich earth, a richer dust concealed”. What does ‘dost’ stand for?

Answer:In this sentence of the poem ‘In that rich earth a richer dust concealed’ for the mortals remains of the poet, after his death in the war-field. Dust also stands for those persons who avoid war and wanted to live a peaceful life. They never quarreled for anything.

Question 5.What is meant by the phrase A pulse in the eternal mind’?

Answer:The phrase ‘A pulse in the eternal mind’ indicates a long-cherished desire. The poet wants to say that there must be a pulse in the eternal mind that works to avoid war.

Question 6.How many times does the poet use ‘England’ in the poem? What does it show?

Answer:In the poem, the poet has used England four times and English two times. It shows his great patriotic feeling, zeal and ultimate desire to sacrifice his life for his beloved country.

Question 7.How can you show that you love your country’?

Answer:I will be ready to sacrifice my life for the sake of my country, wherever required. I will maintain the honor of my motherland. I will also contribute to the prosperity of the country with the utmost enthusiasm.

Question 8 What does the soldier fear?

AnswerThe soldier fears his death because life in battle-fields is always uncertain.

Question 9 What will happen to that part of the land where he would be buried?

Answer The part of a foreign land where he would be buried would become the part and parcel of England.

Question 10 What did England give to the soldier?

Answer England bore and shaped his life. England gave him flowers to love, ways to roam, and the air to breathe.