Q. What is the mother sparrow holding in her beak?

Ans. The mother sparrow is holding a grain of millet in her beak. She wants to feed her
young ones, which are ten in number, but all are crying with hunger.
Q. Who is the poet of the poem “The Feed”?
Ans. Ahmad Nadeem Qasmi is the poet of “The Feed”.
Q. Which line in the first stanza tells us that the young ones have no feathers?
Ans. Fourth line. “From head to foot they are beaks”.
Q. How many young ones are to be fed?
Ans. Ten young ones are to be fed. They are all very young. They cannot fly because they
have no feathers on their bodies. So they are crying with hunger.
Q. Write the critical appreciation of the poem.
Ans. The poem shows a deep love and care of a mother for her children. It also shows the
hardships of the poor parents who never have enough to feed their children to their fill. As a
result, they live a life of utter pain, poverty, and hunger.
Q. What do you feel after reading the poem?
Ans. After reading the poem, I feel sorry for the poor sparrow. The poem shows a deep love
and care of a mother for her children. It also shows the hardships of the poor parents who
never have enough to feed their children to their fill. As a result, they live a life of utter pain,
poverty and hunger.

Q. What is the theme/main idea of the poem? OR What has the poet described in this
poem?
Ans. In this poem, the poet presents the emotions of motherhood. He tells us how a
mother sparrow brings a grain of millet to feed her young ones. He also compares the
effort of a sparrow with the effort of man. The sparrow breaks the grai:1 of millet to feed
her children, but human beings break atom to bring about destruction.
Q. What does the mother sparrow hold in her beak?
Ans: The mother sparrow holds a grain of millet which she brings to feed her ten young
ones who are waiting to be fed in the nest.
Q3: Which line in the first stanza tells us that the young ones heave no feathers?
Ans: In the fourth line of the first stanza, the poet says: "From head to toe they are
beaks". This line shows that the young ones have ne feathers and they cannot fly.
Q: How many young ones are to be fed?
Ans: There are ten young ones to be fed. The mother sparrow brings a grain of millet to
feed them.
Q5: How does the mother sparrow feed her young ones?
Ans: The mother sparrow brings a grain millet and breaks it into very small pieces to
feed her young ones.
Q. What does the mother sparrow think when she feeds her young ones?
Ans: The mother sparrow thinks that she has only one grain of millet while there are ten
young ones to be fed.
Q. What is the message of the poem?
Ans: The poem gives the message that the human beings should learn a lesson from
the mother sparrow that breaks a grain of millet to feed her young ones. Bu! we break
atom to bring about destruction.
Q. What does the phrase "fissuring the atom" mean in this poem?
Ans: This phrase means that man has learnt to decompose atom. He makes use of this
ability not for constructive purposes, but for destructive intentions.