Form 10-K

theatre: he has directed feature films, documentaries, and television serials. He represented India in foreign lands as an emissary of art & culture. He has experimented with the fusion of the traditional and modern dramatic forms and content. The purpose of using traditional forms is to achieve a rare insight into the contemporary reality because Karnad believes that complexities of post colonialism are inherited from that the colonial and pre-colonial times. Unlike Badal Sircar and Vijay…

which has been elicited by a certain stimulus” (Baker & Kennedy 1994: 169—174). The stimulus seen in this case is the songs of the North. The last stanza emphasizes the transience of life and the role of the songs in the narrator’s longing. The narrator states that the roots of the trees “hold the secrets, these melodies”, reaffirming the memories connection to the North and to the songs. He continues “Echoes from the past, nothing here will last”, hence highlighting the time passing,…

This captivates the reader and reels them in further as it allows a concise relationship to form between the character and reader. It also permits the reader to grasp an accurate, attached and sympathetic understanding of the monologue. The persona in the last duchess has been criticized by many theories. A feminist theory states that he speaks…

Poetry is a very beautiful and unique form of literature, but it often is given a bad reputation. The main reason being is people overanalyze it, instead of taking in the beauty of it. Billy Collins’s poem “Introduction of Poetry” explains how people overanalyze and take away from the beauty of a poem. The speaker suggests ways of reading poetry that allow the reader to understand the poem, but not take away from the beauty of it. Billy Collins quotes “I ask them to take a poem / and hold it up…

He introduces the poem with the buzz saw rattling, the breeze drawing across, and the sun setting and describing the five mountain ranges one behind another. The tone used here is calm, but it immediately changes when the tragic accident occurs to a depressing and sorrowful tone. The poet uses examples of figurative language like personifying the saw, "the saw leaped ... leaped out at the boy's hand" and onomatopoeia, 'snarled and rattled'. The poems use a range of literary devices to convey…

First published in the 11 January 1818. Percy Bysshe Shelley was an English literate who wrote many poems and one of the most famous one is Ozymandias. In the poem Ozymandias by Percy Bysshe Shelley, he describes a meeting with someone who has traveled to a place where ancient civilizations once existed. We know from the title that he’s talking about Egypt. The poem starts out with several imageries such as “stone”, “desert”, “sand” and “half-sunk”. Here, the stone represents nature that has…

By reading the lyrics of “The Letters” by Leonard Cohen as a piece of poetry, i.e. with no musical accompaniment, without the song itself, we are able to picture an unsuccessful love story through its verses. “The Letters” seems to be a tale about unreciprocated sentiments, in which the lover’s expectations reach the point when all chances are lost and it is too late for amendments (“I said there's nothing left / I hoped that you would come”). The impression it leaves is of abandonment and…

As Irene J.F Dejong argued, the nature of the poem is oral but at the same time it is a narration. Since originally, there was no written form of the poem, no quotation marks such as inverted commas could be used. Therefore, the poet would make use of different ways to make a smooth transition from the narration of the story to a kind of direct speech or a conversation between the characters…

All three poems have several moods and tones that allow the readers understand what and why the poet feels this way throughout the poem. ‘Piano’ is a nostalgic, retrospective and reluctant poem although the mood in this poem is toward the dampening and melancholy side, “my manhood is cast,” throughout the poem he explains how he misses her mother in the past memories, “pressing her poised feet” and at the upmost importance that he “weeps like a child for the past,” this represents remembrance…

Explore the isolation and resilience of the characters in W H Audens ‘Refugee Blues’? In this essay I will be analysing the poem ‘Refugee Blues’. This poem was written by W H Auden. This poem was written in the year of 1939, 1939 is the year World War 2 started. In this essay W H Auden talks about how the Jewish where in a state of isolation and had no where to go. W H Auden did an excellent job in showing how the Jewish were dehumanised. In this essay I will be exploring how the characters…