Bharat Desh - English Literature - Class 6 - English

With the name of Bharat Desh on our lips, let us shake off our fears and poverty, and overcome our sorrows and enemies. We shall stroll on the snow-clad silvery heights of the Himalayas. Our ships shall sail across the high seas. We shall set up schools-all sacred temples for us, and proudly thump our shoulders and utter the name of this land of ours, Bharat. a. Name the poem and the poet. b. What does the poet want the people to remove? c. What should we overcome? d. Where does the poet want to stroll? e. What do the figure of speech in ‘all sacred temples for us’? f. What would we feel?

a. The name of the poem is ‘Bharat Desh’ and the name of the poet is Subrmania Bharti. b. The poet wants the people to get rid of our fears, which act as a hindrance in the path of our progress. We should remove poverty and prosper as a nation. c. We should overcome the sorrows which we face and overcome such adversity. We should win our enemies so as to be successful nation. d. The poet wants to stroll on the Himalayas. e. The figure of speech is metaphor whereby the schools have been compared to temples and referred to as pious buildings. f. We would be proud of our nation and pat ourselves for being successful.