NCERT Chapter Summary: No Men are Foreign (Poem)

NCERT Chapter Summary: No Men are Foreign (Poem)

We have many ways of thinking of other people as different from us. They may belong to different countries or religions, follow a different lifestyle and speak a different language. But the poet reminds us of the many ways in which we are all the same for we are all humans.

We all are human beings. We follow the same living routine we all breathe, eat, walk in the same way. We all are aware of the sun, the air and the water. We need them equally and use for the same purpose. We all love peace and hate war. Others also have eyes like ours that wake or sleep. In every land, there is a common life.

Love is paramount everywhere that wins the heart. When we hate others, fight with them, raise arms against them, it is ourselves that we shall dispossess, betray and condemn. We pollute our own earth where none is foreign or strange. We all have a single common entity and that is of being human.