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  Character of Rosalind in As You Like it by William Shakespeare Rosalind is one of the lovable and brilliant heroines in Shakespeare’s plays. She posses the quality of wit and emotion. She dominates the play and has a dynamic personality. She is humble and has got a noble soul. She is the daughter of the banishes Duke Senior. The present Duke’s daughter Celia is intimately attached to Rosalind. Celia comforts Rosalind in her state of melancholy. Rosalind agrees to forget her anxieties to share Celia’s happiness. Rosalind feels sympathetic towards Orlando who is ready to enter a wrestling contest with Charles. Thinking that Charles will defeat Orlando, she feels sympathy for him. But Orlando wins the match. She falls in love with Orlando and gives her chain as a token of his victory. Duke Frederick claims to banish Rosalind from his court. He banishes her because she is the daughter of Duke Senior, who is a traitor. She appeals to him not to treat her so. But the Duke banishes he

  To a Skylark “To a Skylark" is a poem written by Percy Bysshe Shelley in the year 1820. In this poem the poet speaks about the greatness of the skylark. He is startled by the beautiful song and happiness of the bird. As a poet he realizes that he is unable to reach that same joy and happiness of a skylark. Keats in his Ode to the Nightingale feels jealous about the bird Nightingale for its freedom and joy. Similarly, Shelley feels jealous for the bird skylark. In the very first stanza Shelley commences by addressing the skylark as ‘blithe’ or ‘Spirit’. He considers skylark as a heavenly bird. This bird is invisible, yet it sings with profound sweetness.   The Skylark’s sweet music filled the ears of the poet. He claims that skylark is the beautiful bird    in the sky. He further states that skylark dominates the universe by its excellent music and soothing voice. The poet is not aware about the mystery of the bird skylark. The poet feels excited about the bird singing w

  Unpacking My Library: A Speech on Collecting “Unpacking My Library: A Speech on Collecting,” was written by Walter Benjamin in the year 1931. In this essay he talks about the readers’ relationship to their books. Benjamin was moving from the house and life that he shared with his wife and stayed in a small furnished apartment. There he lived an isolated life. He narrates the experience in his personal library and out of the heaps in which they had been inaccessibly stored for the previous two years. He has a large number of books but there is no enough space in the room for those volumes. So, he is identifying the value of each book. Benjamin describes an important fact about the academic life. The journey of collecting books and documents during scholarly life are momentous not for their subjects, but of our selves. A project involves collection of data and understanding of the text. Same way Benjamin in unpacking his library was able to find a new order and meaning in his shel

  Consonants Consonants are speech sounds that are produced with some obstruction or narrowing in the vocal tract. There are 24 consonants. Among these 21 letters, 15 letters have their usual sound values.   Linguist have invented nine symbols and example: ɡ θ ð ʃ Ȝ   t ʃ   d Ȝ ղ ј do g my th fa th er sh ip mea s ure ch ain g em ki ng y es   Classification of Consonants: Consonants are classified according to how they are produced. ·          The place of articulation. ·          The manner of articulation. i. The place of articulation: It is the point of contact, where an obstruction occurs in the vocal tract between the active and passive articulators. Below table shows the place of articulations. Labials p b m w Dentals θ          ð Labio-Dent

  In the Skin of a Lion -          Michael Ondaatje                        Character Sketch of Patrick Lewis The novel In the skin of a Lion is written by Michael Ondaatje. Patrick Lewis is the protagonist of the novel. The first chapter in this novel named “Little Seed” refers to Patrick’s childhood stage and his personality traits. He was born in the rural town of Depot Creek, Ontario, Canada. He resides with his silent father, Hazen, a dynamiter. Patrick is a keen onlook er of nature and a listener. He watches the hard labor of loggers and hears  to the flapping sound of the bugs during his childhood stage. Patrick observes his father’s job from a distance, like a kid. He acquires the skill of his father succeeding through his child – like learning. After the death of his father in the year 1930, the 22-year-old Patrick moves to the city of Toronto. In the same year a millionaire Ambrose was found missing. Patrick, who takes the job of a searcher goes in search of the m

  Shakuntala                            -Kalidasa Shakuntala is a romantic play written by Kalidasa. This Play is also titled as “recognition of Shakuntala”. This drama revolves around the character of Shakuntala. She is the embodiment of beauty, virtue and patience. In literature many misogynist writers aspire women to possess these characteristics.      Shakuntala is the daughter of sage Viswamitra and the heavenly dancer Menaka. Menaka gives her  new born baby to Sage Kanva who lives in the forest. Shakuntala grew along with nature in the ashram.   She grew up with a glimmering and heavenly beauty. She was serene and her voice was sweet. She  wore cotton garments and wore flower as ornament.  She was gentle and delicate.  She had two friends  Priyamvada and Anusuya.   Even the birds and animals in the forest admired the beauty of Shakuntala.  She treated deer as her pet animal. One day King Dushyanta enters the forest to poach deer. He injuries a deer with his arrows. Shakunta

  Like an Old Proud King in a Parable A. J.M. Smith The Poem Like an Old Proud King in a Parable was written by the Canadian Poet, A.J.M Smith. This poem appeared in McGill Fortnightly Review in the year 1926. In this poem Smith narrates the story of an Old King who abandons his Kingdom to become a poet. This poem depicts the poetic career of Smith. Smith breaks some of the old poetic conventions and brings novelty into the society. A king is bored to forego the pleasure of the Kingdom. He renounces his kingdom, and leave his flattering courtiers and adoring wife. The king readily sacrifices the existing kingly life and moves to a lonely land, “a meadow in the Northern Stone”. Northern Stone is in the northern parts of Canada, a land of mountain, snow and forest filled with nature. The King rejoices to live his life along the meadow. In the meadow he feels like an uncontrollable swan, “the heart that controlled liked swan”. The King desires to give up his worldly life and aspir