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    20.say This City Has Ten Million Souls

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    This document contains questions and answers about a poem discussing refugees. The poem explores the difficulties faced by refugees who are forced to leave their home countries due to political issues. It criticizes how refugees are treated in the countries that take them in, where they are denied basic rights and facilities given to citizens and pets. The overall theme is that all humans deserve basic rights regardless of citizenship status, and no one should be forced to leave their home country. The response also analyzes how the poet uses numerical and urban images, such as the city having 10 million people or buildings with thousands of floors, to emphasize ideas and make the poem more impactful.

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    This document contains questions and answers about a poem discussing refugees. The poem explores the difficulties faced by refugees who are forced to leave their home countries due to political issues. It criticizes how refugees are treated in the countries that take them in, where they are denied basic rights and facilities given to citizens and pets. The overall theme is that all humans deserve basic rights regardless of citizenship status, and no one should be forced to leave their home country. The response also analyzes how the poet uses numerical and urban images, such as the city having 10 million people or buildings with thousands of floors, to emphasize ideas and make the poem more impactful.

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    This document contains questions and answers about a poem discussing refugees. The poem explores the difficulties faced by refugees who are forced to leave their home countries due to political issues. It criticizes how refugees are treated in the countries that take them in, where they are denied basic rights and facilities given to citizens and pets. The overall theme is that all humans deserve basic rights regardless of citizenship status, and no one should be forced to leave their home country. The response also analyzes how the poet uses numerical and urban images, such as the city having 10 million people or buildings with thousands of floors, to emphasize ideas and make the poem more impactful.

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    20.say This City Has Ten Million Souls

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    This document contains questions and answers about a poem discussing refugees. The poem explores the difficulties faced by refugees who are forced to leave their home countries due to political issues. It criticizes how refugees are treated in the countries that take them in, where they are denied basic rights and facilities given to citizens and pets. The overall theme is that all humans deserve basic rights regardless of citizenship status, and no one should be forced to leave their home country. The response also analyzes how the poet uses numerical and urban images, such as the city having 10 million people or buildings with thousands of floors, to emphasize ideas and make the poem more impactful.

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    Manazar Hussain Qureshi

    M.A English,Tesol(U.K)
    City Postgraduate College
    For Women Jhelum.

    20. Say this City has Ten “Million

    Souls.

    Q.No.1.What is the theme of the poem?


    Ans.In this poem the poet has described the agonized and
    miserable plight of those immigrants who have been forced to
    leave their native country because of the political upheavals and
    stresses the need of having international human society. If we look
    around the globe, such atrocities are taking place in many parts of
    the world and millions of refugees are leading a miserable life in
    many parts of the world. The poet has satirized the behavior of the
    people and the government of those countries where these refugees
    take shelter. They take the refugees burden. The poet satires the
    modern man whose life is so complex with tall and grand
    buildings, rules and laws of social life. It is quite ironical that
    facilities enjoyed even by cats and dogs are denied refuges. The
    basic theme of the poem is that all human beings should be
    allowed their basic rights and no one should be forced to leave the
    country. Refugees should not be hated but they should be allowed
    to settle down (at least temporarily) and passport or entrance rules
    should be relaxed in some cases. The theme of the poem is also the
    imposition of cheeks and restraints on the free life of man in
    developed human societies. Barriers have been erected between
    countries and societies stopping the people from one country to
    visit another country. The poem is also a satire on the politicians

    who create diverse social problems through wrong and selfish


    polices.

    Q.No.2. The poet has used several numerical images as will as


    some urban images. What effect do there create?

    Ans. The poet has used several numerical as well as urban images.
    At the start we are presented with a city with ten million should.
    Then there is another urban imagery that some are living in
    mansion and some are living in holes. There is no doubt due to
    huge number of people, most of the them live in small dark houses
    which may be called “Atlas” can also be an urban image because
    in an Atlas, most of the countries and big cities are given. Then we
    have “one year tree” in “one” village Church yard. Old passport
    without new numbers might also be a numerical image. The
    committee and the public meeting are also the image of “a few
    persons, and large number of persons respectively. The bombers or
    fighters in the sky must be a few. The birds must be many.
    Similarly, fish swimming freely just “ten feet” away is another
    mage. The big buildings with a thousand floors, a thousand doors
    are also numerical images. Similarly, ten thousand soldiers
    marching to and fro to seek the Jews to deport them is another
    interesting image. These images serve the purpose of definite stress
    on certain ideas and make the poem forceful. Then, we also
    observe urban images such as huge population, passport offices,
    consuls, committee’s public meetings, multi storied buildings
    which are usually situated in the big cities.

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