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Mothers  Day -       J. B. Priestly J. B. Priestly is a famous playwright, novelist, and critic. His play Mother’s Day was published in the year 1953. The play is set in a middle-class suburban home. The mother in the play is Anne Pearson. The story revolves around Pearson family. She works hard to keep her house happy and clean. Her husband, son and daughter enjoys the labour of Pearson but fails to praise her deeds. Annie Pearson feels neglected and lonely. She loves her family without any expectations. She shares her grief over her family with her neighbour Mrs. Fitzgerald. She  notices Pearson's plight. She steps into the house of Pearson to help. She makes the family aware of what they owe to Mrs. Pearson. Mrs. Fitzgerald an assertive and domineering woman offers to exchange souls.  Mrs. Pearson wants to show their family members that life would be miserable if the mother too would begin to behave like them. She realizes that she needs to stand up for h

Regret by Kate Chopin Kate Chopin, born Katherine O’Flaherty (1850 – 1904), was an American author of short stories and novels. She is considered as a  feminist author of the 20th century. “Regret” is written by Kate Chopin. The story was first published in Chopin’s “A Night in Acadia”. “Regret” is a story of a woman who lives alone on a farm. Feb 23.  In her short story "Regret"  Kate Chopin depicts about  a woman named  as Mamzelle Aurelie. She had perfect posture and rosy cheeks. She wore man’s hat and used blue army coat during the cold season. She was simple and never been in love. When she was 20 years old, she had received proposal but she denied it. She didn’t regret it when she was 50 years old. She only lived with her dog named Ponto and Negroes lived in her cabin. She had also a farm that had fowls, cows, etc. There was her neighbor named Odile who had four children (Elodie, Ti Nomme, Marceline and Marcelette). Odile asked Mamzelle to take care

  Introduction to the poem Like an Old Proud King in a Parable A.J.M. Smith was a Canadian poet, anthologist and critic. He pursued his UG degree at Mc Gill University in Montreal. His anthologies include The Blasted Pine (1957), The Oxford Book of Canadian Verse in English (1960).             Smith’s poem Like an Old Proud King in a Parable is one of his famous poems. This poem got published in New Provinces. The poem got published in New Provinces. The poem was originally published in the Mc Gill Fortnightly reviews in 1928. It is a metaphysical poem with highly figurative language.             In this poem a king renounces his throne to become a poet to sing “difficult lonely music”. The inner meaning conveyed through this poem is the poet is frustrated and despaired to give up romantic qualities in him to modernist principles.  

  Eight Poets who won Jnanpith Award   1.Sankara Kurup Sankara Kurup is a Malayalam poet. He  won  the  first Jnanpith Award  in 1965, for his anthology of poems, titled Odakkuzhal . He was the first recipient of the Jnanpith Award―the highest Indian literary honor.       2. Akkitham Achuthan Namboothiri He is popularly known as  Akkitham . He was an Indian poet and essayist who wrote in Malayalam. Akkitham was the recipient of India’s highest literary honour, the Jnanpith Award in 2019. His prominent works included Epic of the 20th century, The vision of Bali ,  and    Holy moment . 3. Kuppali Venkatappa Puttappa He is popularly known by his pen name Kuvempu. He was an Indian poet, playwright, novelist and critic. He is the greatest Kannada poet of the 20th century. He was the first Kannada writer to be by decorated with the Jnanpith Award. 4.   Chandrashekhara Kambara He is an Indian poet, playwright, folklorist, film director in Kannada language. He has been conferred  w

  The Raven              The Raven is a narrative poem written by Edgar Allan Poe an American poet. This poem was published in the year 1845. In this poem the poet laments the death of his lover, Lenore. The Raven in this poem perches on the Bust of Pallas and utter the word “Nevermore”. A talking raven taps the window of the mourning narrator during a mysterious midnight visit in Bleak December. The narrator is a young scholar and is frightened by the tapping sound at the door at night. He opens the door at night. He opens the door and finds no one there. Then the poets heart beat raises rapidly. He realizes the sound coming from his window. He opens the shutter and finds a raven perching on his statue of the Bust of Pallas. This symbolizes that the narrator is a scholar because Pallas Athena is the goddess of wisdom. The narrator asks the raven for its name and to his surprise and delight the bird answers “Nevermore”. He moves near to the bird. He feels that the bird is sent by

The Bull Calf -        Irving Layton The Bull Calf poem begins very much like Frost poem, with a picture of the bull calf and the story of its fate. “ The things could barely stand. Yet taken from his mother and… . “ The poem keeps suspense until the end with the conflict of the death of a helpless animal and the conscience of the speaker. Many literary devices are used to dramatize the poem such as organization, personification and theme. The narrator is the poet himself. He uses figurative languages like onomatopoeia to get a sympathetic audience and give more emotion in the poem. The theme of Bull Calf is about a recently born bull calf that gets killed because the owner has no use for it. The drama lies on the bull calf getting beaten to death. The speaker is in conflict with himself. Perhaps he is young and not used to seeing innocent, helpless animal getting murdered or may be he felt sorry for the animal that had so much potential, but not a chance to live.

Seagull E. J. Pratt E. J Pratt is the first Anglo-Canadian poet to use a distinctively Canadian subject matter, create Canadian genres, employ a Canadian idiom and thus set up a poetic tradition embodying national experience. By resurrecting and commemorating a heroic past as an alternative to the European past he has succeeded in creating a Canadian myth. Pratt was born in Newfoundland where the struggle for survival was particularly harsh and death at sea was frequent. In his works Newfoundland Verse (1923), The Great Feud and Cacholot, where he created myths of struggle for supremacy between land animals and sea animals. Pratt had not yet created a specifically Canadian myth located in Canadian history, but his tales of elemental forces locked in conflict are suggestive of Canadian explorer and pioneer experience. Pratt in this poem Seagulls narrates about the bird and it also tells about the Canadian people. The poem in the outward sense about the bird says th

  Second Sex                                                 -Simon de Beauvoir Simon de Beauvoir’s Second Sex was published in the year 1949. She was a French critic and had a relation with Jean Paul Sartre. In Second Sex Beauvoir gives the definition for woman. She is defined as a womb, “Tota Mulier in Utero”. Man, the supreme being treats women as an inferior being. “Feminity is in danger”. We are urged to be women, stay women and become women. Beauvoir claims the fact of becoming women affects our life. So, every human being is not woman. “One is not born a woman” Social science no longer believes in immutably determined entities that define given characteristics like those of the woman, the Jew or the Black. Every human being is born free and it is the situation which makes them woman, Jew, Negro or white. Society shapes you and not science. There is no term called feminity. Women are human being. Feminist women and upper-class American women claims that there is no such

History of Canadian Literature Canada is situated at the Northern parts of America. It is the second largest country in the world. The natives of Canada were called the aborigines. It is a land with mountains, lakes, vast landscape, natural resources, plenty of snow. The land often faces winter season (cold plenty of snow). Survival, Identity crisis, alienation, depression of colonisation are some of the major themes found in Canadian literature. This literature originated in Canada. This country was once colonised by the British. Before invasion there was oral, folk, songs to pray God. People lived intimate with nature. Canadian literature focused on religious and nationalistic themes. This literature is written in English and French languages. The common theme explored in Canadian literature is the “Garrison Mentality”. This term was first used by a critic named Northrop Frye. Margaret Atwood enriched the Canadian Literature with her work “Survival”. In this wor

  Satan Tempting Eve in Book IX Satan enters the body of a serpent and comes close to Eve. The Serpent head is held high and his eyes are glimmering. It crawls smoothly and cautiously on the grass in a Zig-Zag way. The Serpent tries to draw Eve’s attention. But Eve does not pay any attention to the Serpent. The Serpent stands amazed to see the beauty of Eve.it moves its sleeky and gold-colored neck sideways, licking the ground. Eve notices the Serpents playful movements. Satan begins to tempt Eve. He addresses Eve as a sovereign mistress. Serpent claims Eve not to express emotions like hatred and annoyance. Eve has an awful and majestic look. She resembles God and has a divine air. All the creatures of God gaze at her admiringly. She is universally admired by the creatures around her. They are God’s gift to her. In Eden garden even the animals admire her. They look at her but cannot orally express their appreciation pf her beauty. But Eve is left all alone in the garden to have c

Paradise Lost Book IX Satan Entering Eden Garden In Book IX of Paradise Lost Milton deals with the wicked, hatred behaviour of Adam and Eve. This books brings the God's pronouncement of Judgement against human being. Paradise a place of happiness turns dark. Man's sin has brought destruction for paradise. Milton feels sad to describe the fall of man. Yet he considers this theme sublime. In Book IV Gabriel, the God's messenger drives Satan from Eden. Satan being fradulent and wicked decides to destroy Adam and Eve, the God's creation. Satan decides the re-enter the Eden garden. He enters the garden during the night time and find a safe place in the paradise. Satan examines each creatures in the Eden Garden. He plans to conceal himself in the body of a snake. Snakes has got evil nature and no one will suspect the serpent. Satan envies the earth created by God. He calls the earth free from imperfections of his earlier creations. Satan grew jealous by

             W ho’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf                                                           -Edward Albee Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf is a play written by the American dramatist Edward Albee. Albee is known for his blunt criticism. This play was published in the year 1962. The play is about “marital conflict but its major theme is the need to rid life of fantasies and to face realities”. This play symbolizes the world where love, life, passions and the creative act are machine made. Martha and George are miserable couple. As the play commences the couple returns home from a party held at Martha’s father’s house. Her father is the president of a college. Martha’s husband is working in the same college as professor in the department of History. She desires her husband should become the head of the department. She is highly domineering and assertive. She is six years older to George. George and Martha are leading a frustrated life for around twenty-three

  Eco-criticism The concept Eco-criticism arose in 1970’s. In UK it is Green Studies and in USA it is Eco-criticism. Eco-criticism or Green studies takes its literary bearing from British Romanticism of the 1970’s American transcendentalist. The founding figure on the British side is critic Jonathan Bate. Bate is considered as the father of Eco-criticism in England and Cheryll Glotfelty is the father of Eco-criticism in USA. Eco-criticism is the study of culture and cultural products, that is in someway connected with the human relationship to the natural world. It is a response to the need of humanistic understanding of our connection with natural world in an age of environmental destruction. The increase in technology has brought a disconnection of humanity from the natural world. Most eco-critical works are concerned with the consequences of human actions. American and British romantic writers took interest in nature as a subject. The Victorian writer wrote about industriali

  The Arrow of God                      -  Chinua Achebe The phrase Arrow of God is taken from Igbo proverb which represents the will of God. Arrow refers to Ezeulu, the chief priest in this novel and the bow refers to God Ulu, who is the deity for six villages. The chief priest Ezeulu names the day for the feast of the Pumpkin leaves or for the New Yam feast. If the priest fails to name the day there would be no festival, no planting and reaping. Ezeulu with his large family, lives in a huge compound. His two living wives Matefi and Ugoye cook for him by turns. He rules over in his compound. He regards his eldest son Edogo, a carver, as weak and spineless. His other son Obika, the most handsome young man in Umuaro is given to excessive drinking and often lands in trouble. Ezeulu has sent his third son Oduche to the missionary school in Okperi. He learns the way and wisdom of the white man. His youngest son Nwafo is his favourite, as is Nwafo’s mother Ugoye. Ezeulu aspires Nwafo

Listening to Myself -Al. Purdy Alfred Wellington Purdy was  a 20 th century Canadian free verse poet. He has been called the nation’s “ Unofficial poet laureate”. This poem is about the speaker listening to himself. The poet is listening to himself to the voice of his own country Canada. The poet hopes that his past will rekindle the mind of the people by increasing their will to survive in Canada. He recollects his past “ See myself staggering through deep snow”. He depicts himself claiming that he is a old and weak man. The speaker seems to be looking at himself from different angles. He sees “white hair-wrinkled face and hands”. The old man seems to be ugly and useless. The old man loves his land. His love for the land is ridiculous to hear because the land is too harsh and unforgiving. He looks like a foolish man for loving such a hostile land. The old man realizes the truth behind his love for the land, that it is not the physical strength helped him to surv

  Ations   By Shel Silverstein If we meet and I say, 'Hi,' That's a salutation. If you ask me how I feel, That's a consideration. If we stop and talk a while, That's a conversation. If we understand each other, That's a communication. If we argue, scream and fight, That's an altercation. If later we apoligize, That's reconciliation. If we help each other home, That's a cooperation. And all these actions added up Make Civilization. (And if I say this is a wonderful poem, Is that exaggeration?) Explanation : Shel Silverstein is an American Poet, writer and Children’s author. The poem “Ation” appeared in his Anthology titled “Light in the Attic ” which was published in the year 1981 .   This poem is thought provoking and evocative. In each line of this poem the poet ends the song with a suffix   “ation” which adds beauty to the title of the poem. I f we meet and I say, “Hi,” That’s a salutation. If you ask me how

1.Educate a man and you educate an individual. Educate a woman and you educate a family.                                                                - A . Cripp 2. I raise up my voice – not so I can shout, but so that those without a voice can be heard…we cannot succeed when half of us are held back.                                             – Malala Yousafzai 3. I think women are foolish to pretend they are equal to men, they are far superior and always have been.                                                    - William Golding  4. Of course I am not worried about intimidating men. The type of man who will be intimidated by me is exactly the type of man I have no interest in.                                 -Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie 5. Women have served all these centuries as looking glasses possessing the magic and delicious power of reflecting the figure of a man at twice its natural size.                

                                                                                        Strife -        John Galsworthy Strife is a three-act play written by John Galsworthy. It is his third play and the play highlights the social issues. It was produced in the year 1909 at the Duke of York Theatre. The title “strife” has a biblical meaning which means bitter conflict. The theme in this play is capital and labour. The action takes place on 7 th february at the Trenartha Tin Plate Work. The factory workers involve in a prolonged strike. There arises a conflict between the company chairman John Anthony and the workers leader Roberts. Both are very stern and adamant to compromise. Anthony was the chairman for 32 years and he is determined to fight and win. In his thirty two years of experience he has won four strikes. He was certain that he could win the strike once more. The directors felt unfair about the stern nature of Anthony. The directors were aware about the outcome of this

Copywriter A copywriter is an expertise and a genius person who work with words. They write for  advertising purposes mainly to promote and sell goods and services. A full time copy writer works on different types of copy such as articles, web pages, blog posts, newsletter and reports. A copywriter needed no other formal qualifications. A copy writer should pursue certain qualities like · Excellent writing skills. · Ability to write to deadlines. · Great research skills. · Understanding the audience. · SEO success. · Creativity. · An eye for headlines A Good copywriter understands the modern world. They have great idea about the consumers , understands  the importance of an attention-grabbing headline, can articulate the sales and marketing objectives.  A copy writer should possess a good language skill. They should pay keen attention to employ the correct usages of word choice, structure, grammar, punctuation, spelling. Proof reading should be done

Sentence A sentence is a group of words that makes complete sense. Sentences are classified in to four types. ·       Assertive Sentence ·       Interrogative Sentence ·       Imperative Sentence ·       Exclamatory Sentence Assertive Sentence A sentence that makes a statement or assertion is called an assertive or declarative sentence. Examples for assertive sentences are ·       Seetha is a tall girl. ·       Her sister is a dancer. Assertive sentences are further classified into two types. They are ·       Affirmative ·       Negative a)     An affirmative sentence expresses the validity of truth of an assertion.   Examples : They go to school.                      Iam feeling hungry. b)     Negative sentences have a negative meaning. Examples : She is too rude.                     He was never interested in sports. Interrogative Sentences An interrogative sentence asks a direct question and is punctuated at the end with a ques