Questions and Answers for Class – XI
S A.Q Questions and Answers:
About the Poet:
Octavio Paz (March 31, 1914 – April 19, 1998) was born in a Mexican village. He first studied at Colegio Williams. His grandfather inspired him to read literature, both Mexican and European. He was deeply influenced by Spanish writers like Gerardo Diego.
Octavio Paz is a powerful modern writer and poet of Latin Literature. His contribution to world literature is remarkable. The poem Brotherhood is an exquisite lyric. It recaptures the varying moods of the poet. The poet is initially haunted by a sense of death. We have a fine philosophical overtone here. But it never cumbers the easy flow of the lyricism. He has his creations.
About the poem:
Brotherhood by Octavio Paz is a short and suggestive poem. Brotherhood implies a feeling of fellowship or closeness. The first line of the poem makes it clear. The poet utters plainly and passionately ‘I am a man’. He knows he will stay on the earth only for a time being. Such is the lot of every individual. For there is infinite night beyond. But the poet does not give in despair.
He looks up. The starry sky is overhead. The stars send the message of beauty and radiance. The poet also creates things of beauty. His works will be appreciated. Someone must read him in his own way. Though he may die, he will be treated as one who feels for man as a man. This sense of kinship will withstand the revenges of time.
BROTHERHOOD
– Octavio Paz
Short objective type questions:
Each Question mark – 1
1) Who wrote the poem ‘Brotherhood’?
Ans- Octavio Paz wrote the poem ‘Brotherhood’.
2) ‘I am a man’. – Wherefrom is taken the line?
Ans- This line is taken from the poem ‘Brotherhood’.
3) What are the limitations of the poet stated in the poem?
Ans- The poet states that he has the limitations of a short span of life and his lack of knowledge about the infinite in his poem ‘Brotherhood’.
4) How does the poet introduce himself in his poem ‘Brotherhood’?
Ans- The poet introduced himself as a man in his poem ‘Brotherhood’.
5) What does the poet say by night is enormous?
Ans- By the expression, night is enormous the poet means to suggest that the life beyond is limitless.
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6) Why does the poet lookup?
Ans- The poet looks up to search for the true import of his limited existence on the earth.
7) Who cheers up the drooping spirit of the poet?
Ans- The stars in the night sky cheer up the drooping spirit of the poet.
8) What does the poet understand when he sees the stars write?
Ans- When the poet sees the stars write he unknowingly understands that he too is written.
9) What does the poet see when he looks up?
Ans- When the poet looks up he finds the stars write.
10) “The stars write.” – What does the expression imply?
Ans- The Expression implies that the stars send the message of light and hope.
11) What kind of Brotherhood is established?
Ans- Brotherhood between man and God, or man and man is established in the poem Brotherhood.
12) What is the poet’s final realisation in his poem ‘Brotherhood’?
Ans- The poet’s final realisation is that someone spells him out.
13) “Someone spells me out” – Who is referred to here as someone?
Ans- Here someone refers to either God or the loving reader of the poet.
14) “The stars write”. – What does the stars write?
Ans- The stars write man’s place in the world.
15) “The night is enormous”. – What does night stand for here?
Ans- The word night stands for death here.