1. Write the title of the poem from which the above lines have been taken. Who is the author of the poem?

Question

Read the following stanzas and answer the questions put there upon : 

Not gold, but on by …………….. fast and suffer long.

1. Write the title of the poem from which the above lines have been taken. Who is the author of the poem?

2. What type of people do we need to make a nation great and strong ?

Or

Who can make a nation great and strong ?

3. Why can’t gold make a nation great ?

Or

Explain the expressions given below :

Stand fast’, ‘suffer long. 

4. What is the meaning of a people’ in the second line ?

5. What does gold mean in the poem ?

6. What do brave men do for truth and honour’s sake ?

Answer 1

1. The title of the poem from which the above lines have been taken is ‘The Nation Builders. The author of this poem is Ralph Waldo Emerson.

2. To make a nation great and strong we need men who can stand to fight and suffer for a long time for the sake of truth and honour.

3. Gold can’t make a nation great because it has no life.

Or

The given expression means the people who are firm and can suffer for their country.

4. A people’ means a nation’.

5. In the poem gold means material wealth or money.

6. Brave men stand fast and suffer long for truth and honour’s sake.