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Hughes’ work has drawn up the old battle lines of poetic engagement between those who trust fictions of the everyday world and those who have been visited by truths unavailable to ordinary, jaded senses. It is important to analyze the poet’s own subjective relationship to his writing and the problems this presents to the reader. The dramatic relationship between two narrative voices1 – self and senses, body and spirit- which is typical of Hughes’ work, rests upon existential questions. The…

Chitra Banarjee Divakaruni is a well-known novelist. She is also a famous poet. Many of her through-provoking articles have been published in more than fifty magazines and are widely read. Her writings have been included in more than thirty anthologies. She was born in Calcutta, India and spend her childhood days there. One of her childhood memories is that of her grandfather who used to tell her many enchanting stories which occur in the Ramayana and the Mahabharatha the two great epics of…

yourself--we want to know what you have to say." Speak is Laurie Halse Anderson's first young adult novel. Young adult novel or Young Adult Literature includes issues related to friendship, love, race, money, divorce, relationships within families. The culture that backdrops and absorbs young adults plays a massive role in their lives. Young adult literature explores themes, vital and essential to teenage years such as relationships to influential figures, peer pressure and ensuing…

10th of November, 1906 in Bhagalpur (Bihar). Bhabani Bhattacharya belonged to an educated family. He had his schooling at Puri and joined Patna Univer¬sity for his undergraduate studies. After taking his Bachelor’s degree with Honours in English Literature in 1927, he left for England to study at the University of London. He completed…

Satire is a genre in literature while sometimes could be graphic and performing arts. Usually, satire is a comical piece of writing which authors would use humor, irony, exaggeration or ridicule makes fun of an individual or a society to expose its stupidity and shortcomings in an indirect way. And its essential purpose is to put out constructive social criticism which uses wit as a weapon to draw attention to both particular and wider issues in society. Moreover, writers expect that whom he…

“The Unknown Citizen,” written by W. H. Auden, is a poem that describes the life of man lived a life that most people would see as ideal. The man illustrated by this poem did what society expected him to do which resulted in a model life. This poem, however, can be seen in more than one way. Some may see the story in the poem as a description of a man who had an unfulfilling life because he did only what was expected of him. Instead of trying something new, exploring the world, or making a…

The retelling of the tale of Rama According to A.K. Ramanujan’s schema, the retelling is a mix of both iconic as well as indexical; however not symbolic. An iconic retelling is one that has the same or similar structure to the main story as well as a similar plot. we can see that in the video that the Rama story is extremely similar in structure and plot to the story of the American couple. Indexical retelling applies as well, seeing that the structure and plot are similar between the two…

Desire. Love. Death. Flowers are used to convey sentiments when speech fails. Their loveliness is associated with the fleeting beauty of women in their shared cycle of blooming, wilting, and finally death. To dry them in their prime preserves their beauty, but inevitably, some of it must be lost. The speakers in the poetry of Browning, Neruda, and Poe face the challenge of prickly desire and death of loved ones. “Porphyria’s Lover” and “Annabel Lee” display obsessive desire for a pure love. The…

Title What do the words of the title suggest to you? What denotations are presented in the title? What connotations or associations do the words posses? Colossus refers to the Colossus of Rhodes, which is one of the seven wonders of the world. The Colossus of Rhodes was built to celebrate victory over the ruler of Cyprus in 305 BC. Denotations: The poem is about a new statue that resembles the Colossus in Ancient Greece. Connotations: Colossus of Rhodes was a statue in Greece that had…

The Romantic period was a very important period for literature. It took place from the year 1785 to 1832 and was a period in which new poetry forms were explored and writing was a way in which people could express their experiences, emotions and imagination. Although there are many characteristics of the Romantic period, the rejection of industrialization, the inclusion of supernatural or mythological elements and the growing views of woman are the main characteristics in works that really show…