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  Hayavadana -           Girish Karnad Girish Karnad was an Indian playwright, an actor, a film director and a scholar who worked for South Asian Cinema in Bolly wood.   He composed plays in Kannada and translated it into English. His plays revolve around history and mythology. He received MA Sri and Padma Bhushan. The play Hayavadana commences with a pooja to Lord Ganesha. The protagonist of this play is Devadatta, the son of a Brahman. He is a man of wisdom and knowledge. The second significant character in this play is Kapila, the son of an ironsmith. He is physically strong and has got a wonderful physique.   In this play Devadatta, and Kapila are intimate friends. As the play begins there is an uproar of fear. An actor comes running onstage shrieking at announcing a creature’s entry with a horse's head, man's body and voice of a human. Bhagavata does not believe the creature and he try to pull off the mask from the head. But soon he realizes the creature to be a r

  Daffodils -         William Wordsworth Daffodils is a reputed nature poem written by William Wordsworth in the year 1804. He was a romantic poet who was influenced by nature. His poems basically focus on the scenic beauty and the English country side. He saw a number of daffodils when he was walking along the field. The scenic beauty of the flower made him to write this poem.                 Once the poet was travelling unaccompanied and he was able to explore a patch of cloud floating over the valley and hills. He was able to view a huge number of golden daffodils, beside the lake, underneath the trees flapping and dancing in the gust.             The daffodils resembled like stars that shine and twinkle at night on the galaxy. The poet perceives the boundless line along the boundary of lake or shore. The poet is able to see ten – thousands of daffodils at a glance. These daffodils are dancing merrily and are moving their heads with joy and cheer. Along with the daffodils

  Solitary Reaper -         William Wordsworth           Solitary Reaper is a Lyrical Ballad written by William Shakespeare. The poem was published in the year 1807.   The trip which Wordsworth made along with his sister Dorothy Wordsworth to Scotland in the year 1803 is the main source of his inspiration to write this poem.      Solitary Reaper is a poem of music. This poem talks about a Scottish girl who sings a plaintive song as she cuts hay with a sickle. The poet keenly listens to the song of the reaper but he is not able to comprehend the tone and language of the song. But he explores the melancholic strain in the poem. The poet glorifies the song of the Highland girl. He compares her song to that of a Nightingale and the Cuckoo bird.             Wordsworth is curious to know about the song of the Solitary Reaper. He desires to explore the interior meaning of this poem. He guesses the song is about sorrow or loss or about unhappy thing. He doubts whether the song depicts

                          Lochinvar -         Sir Walter Scott Lochinvar is a lovely and wonderful ballad written by Sir Walter.   The poem is set in between the border of Scotland and England. It is a ballad and at the same time it’s a love poem too.   In this ballad many characters are searching for Ellen. Lochinvar was a young Scottish Lord who loved the fair Ellen of the Netherby clan. Ellen also loved Lochinvar. Lochinvar asks her father for his desire to marry Ellen. But Ellen’s father rejects for the marriage. Lochinvar hears about the bethoral of Ellen to another man. He rode nonstop to stop the marriage. He rode continuously without stopping to take a break or even to take time to cross the fordless Eske River. When Lochinvar entered, the bride had already consented to the wedding. Lochinvar said his intention to the bride’s father that he had come in peace to drink wine and dance at the wedding. He convinced the family members claiming that he has come only to enjoy

  Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening                           - Robert Frost The Poem “Stopping by Woods” was written in the year 1912 by the famous writer Robert Frost. He is an American poet. His poetry deals with nature and in few of his poems he talks about human Psyche.   In this poem the seasons are often used for the relationship between life and death.        The poet was travelling through a lovely, dark and deep wood. The scenic beauty tempts him to stop there and admire the beauty of nature. He wonders by seeing the beauty of nature. He realizes that the owner of these woods lives in a town of a nearby village. The little horse feels strange to cease in the middle of the forest. The horse shakes his harness bell pretending to be impatient. The horse realizes that there is some mistake in stopping there. The entire atmosphere was dark and gloomy with snow laden trees. In three words we can sum up this poem stating “life goes on”. Feelings and emotions are high th

  Road not Taken -         Robert Frost. Road not Taken is a famous poem written by the American poet Robert Frost . In this poem the narrator describes himself as a traveler while traveling on the road of life. In this poem the poet is traveling through the woods. He looks at the grassy road diverging in yellow wood. He finds that the second path is little better than the first road.   He claims that it may be better to go on the one who has not used much travelled. Both of the paths equally lay there without having been walked on so far. He says no step had trodden them black so no step had made them dark with footsteps and mud and being pressed down like leaves pressed into the mud so both paths are untaken this morning anyway. He kept the first road for another day. He comes to a point where the road splits into two parts. These two parts indicate the choices that come in one's life. one of them is the easiest option whereas the other option is comparatively difficul

  Addison as an essayist   Addison is well known for his prose style, grace and elegance along with Richard Steele. He published his Spectator along with Steele in the year 1711. Addison wrote 214 essays out of 554. The purpose of writing this essay is to teach morality with wit. He sought not only to educate his audience but to regulate their passions and promote self – discipline, tolerance and moderation. His essays were instrumental in spreading wisdom. He tried to refine his readers. So, he brings out the little vanities and all the big vices of his time with gentle humor and kind ridicule. Thus, the aim of spectator is to “enliven morality with wit and to temper wit with morality”. Addison’s essays serve as a vehicle for the formation of “common sense views” . In fact, he was the most genius person to teach wisdom to the people of his age.   Johnson regards Addison “as a describer of life and manners, he must be allowed the first of the first rank…”. Addison stands remark