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                      The Winters Lake                                  - William Wilfred Campbell          The poem Winters Lake was written by the Canadian Poet Wilfred Campbell. He is a confederation poet and he is considered the unofficial poet laureate of Canada. It is a Philosophical poem.           This poem depicts the dark and and dreary landscape of Canada. " Out in a world of death far to the northward lying" . The poet is describing the Northern region of Canada as a world of death employing the image of Winters Lake.  It is a land of death where waste and white stretch the great Lakes. This region remains dull and worthless lacking love, happiness and peace.            This poem presents the darker side of    Canadian Landscape. The poet makes a contrast between death and life. The dominating season in Canada is Winter. This region is veiled with snow. In this deadly land bushes and flowering plants never exists. The land remains haunted. The poet com

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.