Summary
Michael Jackson’s song ‘We’ re the World’, highlights the need of the hour to stand together.Lending a hand to life is the greatest gift of all. We cannot go on pretending, that someone, somewhere will make a change. When we work with unity, we can make the world a better place. The poet tells that people are not helping each other.
Steady rhythm makes the poem perfect. It follows a musical flow. The tone is revolutionary. No rhyme scheme is followed. Rhythm and figures of speech like alliteration(someone, somewhere……..soon),and assonance (time….life), make the poem charming. The imagery, ‘God’s great big family’, is brilliant. Theword choice is simple.

EXAM BASED QUESTIONS
Analysing Textual Poem.

1) What kind of a time does the poet hope for?
2) What should we do to the dying people?
3) To whom should we lend a hand ?
4) What is the greatest gift of all?
5) What is that we can’t do?
6) What are we part of?
7) What is the truth told by the poet?
8) What are our different roles?
9) What should we do to make the world a brighter one?
10)How do we save our own lives ?
11)How can people know that someone cares for them ?
12)How can we make others’ lives stronger and free ?
13)Who turned stone to bread ?
14)What lesson should we learn from God ?
15)When does it seem that there is no hope ?
16)When does everything become well ?
17)How can we bring a change ?

ANSWERS
(1) The poet hopes for a time when we pay heed to a certain call
and the world must come together as one.
(2) We should lend a hand to the dying people.
(3) We should lend a hand to the dying people.
(4) Lending a hand to life is the greatest gift of all.
(5) We can’t go on pretending that someone somewhere will soon
make a change.
(6) We are part of God’s great big family.
(7) The truth is that love is all we need.
(8) We are the world, we are the children, we are the ones who
make a brighter day.
(9) To make the world a brighter one, we should start giving.
(10) By giving and making a choice we can save our own lives.
(11) If we give them our heart, they will know that we care for
them.
(12) By giving them our hearts, we can make other’s lives’
stronger and free.
(13) God turned stone to bread.
(14) We should learn from God to lend a helping hand to others.
(15) When we are down and out, it seems that there is no hope.
(16) Everything becomes well when we believe that there is no
way we can fall.
(17) We can bring a change when we stand together as one.

Find the rhyme-scheme of the following poems.
A.
There was a Baboon
Who, one afternoon,
Said, I think I will fly to the sun
So, with two great palms
Strapped to his arms,
He started his take-off run
Mile after mile
He galloped in style.
Answer: aabccbdd.

B .
The woman was old and ragged and grey,
And bent with the chill of winter’s day
The street was wet with the recent snow,
She stood at the crossing, and waited long,
Alone uncored for, amid the throng
Of human beings who passed her by,
Nor heeded the glance of her anxious eye.
Answer: aabccdd.

A. Write a short profile of Michael Jackson.
B. Write a short profile of Lionel Richie Jr.gty5

A.
MICHAEL JACKSON
Michael Jackson was the best known American singer, songwriter, dancer, and actor. He was born on 29 thAugust in 1958. He was known as the “King of Pop”. His full name was Michael Joseph Jackson. As a child, Jackson became the lead singer of his family’s popular Motown group, ‘The Jackson 5’. He went on to a solo career of astonishing worldwide success, delivering No. 1 hits from the albums ‘Off the Wall’,‘Thriller and Bad’. He died in 2009.
B.
LIONEL RICHIE JR.
Lionel Richie jr. is an American singer, songwriter, musician, record producer and actor. He was born on 20 th June in 1949, in Alabama USA. Beginning in 1968, he was a member of the funk and soul band the Commodores and then launched a solo career in 1982. His TV shows are ‘American Idol’, ‘This Is…’ He was awarded Music Cares Person of the Year.