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4. What does the phrase ‘beckoning call of the future’ refer to?

happiness in the future independence and development

India controlling the Britishers no governance in the country

B. Answer the following questions.

1. What is the poet referring to as the ‘motherland’?

2. What kind of imagery does the poet build for India in line 3?

3. What is the poet’s second wish for his motherland?

4. What is the poet’s third wish for his motherland?

Reference to the context

Read the lines from the poem and answer the questions that follow.

1. Freedom from fear is the freedom

I claim for you my motherland!

a. What does the poet wish for his motherland?
i. freedom from colonisation ii. freedom from poverty

iii. freedom from overpopulation iv. freedom from hunger

b. Why does the poet wish so?

2. Freedom from the insult of dwelling in a puppet’s world,

where movements are started through brainless wires,

repeated through mindless habits.

a. What does the poet mean by ‘a puppet’s world’?
i. India under British rule

ii. Indians working in foreign land

iii. Indians obeying the leaders

iv. Indians following old customs and traditions

b. Who controls the ‘movements’?

c. What are the ‘mindless habits’ that we follow?

Time to think and answer

1. Why do you think the poet has repeated the word freedom? life skill analytical thinking

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