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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