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                                          "The Swamp Dwellers" is a play that focuses on the lives of the people of southern Nigeria in the 1950s. It portrays the struggle between rural and urban life in the country and also focuses on the struggle between human beings and nature. The Swamp Dwellers by Wole Soyinka is placed in a backward village of Nigeria in the Delta region. But the characters of the play often have important interactions with the town life. Typical to the people of a poverty ridden village, the town is a place of money, and luxury to the Swamp dwellers. To the older generation of the swamp dwellers however, the town is the symbol of corruption. Here the attitudes to the city life are mainly expressed by Alu, Makuri, Igwezu, and Kadiye. The older generations’ views to the city are expressed through Alu and Makuri. Alu and Makuri have two sons-...

                                                                    Respected sir,                  This blog is a part of my classroom activity.  Click Here  to view this activity.    Feministic reading of Harmione’s character. Whether it society or in literature female characters are always marginalized. Here in Harry potter same thing happen with the Harmione’s character. If we take look upon her character. We can say that she is intelligent more than others. Ron says that they can’t survive without Harmione. She proves her point with the logical arguments. In class her hand is always raised while others not. It is believed that women are sensitive they could not fight but in case of Harmione it is opposite. She is not sensitive bu...

The Da Vinci Code  is the 2003 novel written by Dan Brown. It follows Harvard professor and symbologist Robert Langdon and the gifted French cryptologist Sophie Neveu as they investigate a murder in Paris' Louvre Museum. They are stunned to discover bizarre riddles that lead them to a trail of clues hidden in the works of Leonardo da Vinci, seemingly left by the museum's late curator, Jacques Saunière minutes before his death. Their race to discover the closely guarded secret held by Saunière uncovers a battle between the Priory of Sion and Opus Dei over the possibility of Jesus having been married to Mary Magdalene. The Da Vinci Code  is, in a manner of speaking, two books in one. The first is a very good suspense thriller. Author Dan Brown must either play or at least be aware of computer games; the plot has a computer game feel to it. The protagonists are dropped almost immediately into a situation of peril and must ext...

                                       Balram Halwai, the narrator of Aravind Adiga’s first novel, “The White Tiger,” is a modern Indian hero. In a country inebriated by its newfound economic prowess, he is a successful entrepreneur, a self-made man who has risen on the back of India’s much-vaunted technology industry. In a nation proudly shedding a history of poverty and underdevelopment, he represents, as he himself says, “tomorrow.” Balram Halwai is a complicated man. Servant. Philosopher. Entrepreneur. Murderer. Over the course of seven nights, by the scattered light of a preposterous chandelier, Balram tells us the terrible and transfixing story of how he came to be a success in life -- having nothing but his own wits to help him along. Balram begins the journey ...

                                                            Respected Sir, What is the meaning of phrase ‘Blood Money’ in Veronica’s reply email? We read novel that when Veronica replayed  “Blood Money”  means from someone’s spilled blood the money is given Antony.  Tony has helped them to Mrs. Sarah Ford. At End of her life, she gave that money to Tony because of that she was happy in relationship with Adrian. One day Tony Suggested to Adrian that Met to Mrs. Sarah Ford. Later one Mrs. Sarah ford Die at that time she was happy them. But in later on Adrian committed suicide. So may be Veronica not happy of them. That’s why she tells that this money was not pure and that is why she just replayed “Blood Money”.  How do you decipher the equation: b = s – v x/+ a1 or a2 + v + a1 X s = b? 1) b= s-...

                                                                Chetan Bhagat’s second novel, One Night @ the Call Center, is based on a group of people working at a call center who have a chance encounter with God. The book describes a bunch of completely different characters with differing aims and ambitions, and how they pull themselves together and resolve these issues finally. The story is a first person narration by Shyam, the protagonist. The story is about 6 members of a call center in Delhi and the incidents that happen to them in a single night while ON DUTY. Shyam  Radhika, Priyanka, Vroom, Esha and Military Uncle. They have been leading their own happy lives despite some disturbances when a few incidents on that night unravel some horrifying truths in front of them. A loyal wife getting to know abo...

                                                          Robert Frost wrote the poem Home Burial after he and his wife suffered the tragic loss of their 4-year-old son. Home Burial shows the emotions people feel after such a loss, and how they face those emotions. Through Frost's experience he shows that men and women grieve in different ways.  Home Burial is a great narrative poem of Robert Frost. In this poem he has described an anxious conversation between a rural husband and wife whose child has recently died. In the beginning of the poem, the wife is standing at the top of a staircase looking at her child’s grave through the window. Her husband, at the bottom of the stairs, does not understand what she is looking at or why she has suddenly become so distressed. The wife dislikes her husband’s obliviousness and att...

                                                                          "Mending Wall" by Robert Frost focuses on two neighbors who meet to make repairs on a stone wall that separates their two homes. The poem's speaker sees no point in maintaining the wall, since neither of the neighbors has any cows or other livestock to confine to their property. The speaker questions the neighbor about this, but the neighbor only repeats the saying, "Good fences make good neighbors." The speaker in the poem is a progressive individual who starts to question the need for such a wall in the first place. The neighbor beyond the hill is a traditionalist and has, it seems, little time for such nonsense. ' Good fences make good neighbors, ' is all he will say. We all have neighbors, we all know that w...

                                              The meaning of "Design" by Robert Frost is that all things that men relate to within the universe have a certain type of evil within their innocence. The poem focuses around the way that all of humanity is necessarily cruel. The first stanza of Frost's poem  Design  sets the scene and tone of the poem in its entirety. The poem begins innocently enough stating "I found a dimpled spider, fat and white." There is no apparent underlying meaning to this, just that the speaker happened to stumble upon a spider, a mere image. The second and third lines of the stanza continue to set the scene saying, "On a white heal-all, holding up a moth like a white piece of rigid satin cloth." Frost's use of the term rigid begins to shift the tone of the poem, as rigid carries a cadaverous connotation. The tone darken...

                                                In "The Gift Outright," Robert Frost traces the development of American culture from colonial times to a more present perspective. He tells the American story of colonialism, freedom, westward expansion, and the quest to develop a specifically American culture. In doing this, he focuses on explaining ways in which Americans supported the growth and development of their country and culture. Frost suggests that Americans showed their allegiance to their developing country and culture in several ways: battlefield bravery, commitment of talents to the good of the country, and dedication to expanding the United States' land and power. His reflection on the past is also a call for action in the future. He acknowledges that American culture is still not fully developed and the continued dedication of Americans, like occurred ...

                                             Robert Frost's "Fire and Ice" discusses the question of whether the end of the world will come in ice or fire, and while that question is part of the meaning, so is the question as to whether cold or heat is the more painful, not just in terms of destruction but also emotion and pain. It is possible to explore the difference between the two on a number of levels based on the text of his poem.                  In Frost’s poem, “Fire and Ice,” the speaker symbolizes fire as desire or love, and ice is symbolized to be destruction and hate. Another way to symbolize ice in this poem is coldness. Frost immediately connects fire with desire because of its perfect rhyme. There is controversy about how the world will end; in fire or in ice. Desire can go hand-in-hand with greed, a...

                                   The poem  Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening  is in general viewed as a Frost's masterpiece. It is Frost's most famous poem and also perhaps Frost's most regularly taught poem. The speaker in the poem, probably the poet himself, is a traveller by horse on the darkest night of the year. He stops to gaze at a woods filling up with snow. While he is entranced by the beauty of the woods, he realises that he has duties and obligations and this realisation drags him away from the lure of enchantments of nature.                                            Stopping by woods on a snowy evening poem begins with the poet travelling through thick wilderness to reach his destination on the darkest evening of the year. The beautiful dark woods ...

                                                                    To Autumn’ is perhaps Keats’s most famous and beloved work. It is considered the perfect embodiment of poetic form, intent, and effect. It was written in Winchester on 19 September 1819 and first published in 1820. Keats described the feeling behind its composition in a letter to his friend Reynolds, ‘Somehow a stubble plain looks warm – in the same way that some pictures look warm – this struck me so much in my sunday’s [sic] walk that I composed upon it.’ In  To Autumn , John Keats paints three perfect autumnal landscapes in three powerful  stanzas . He also highlights the impact on the senses which occur to the patient observer. The poem is written in a highly formal pattern and combines rich  imagery  with clever u...

                                                              Ode to Psyche  was one of the final works of poetry that was published. His collection, Lamia, Isabella, The Eve of St. Agnes, and Other Poems was published in 1820, a year before Keats’ death and before his final visit to Rome. Keats’ mastery of the poetic art in such short a time is perhaps one of the reasons why he is still so prolifically worshipped today. Keats’s speaker opens the poem with an address to the goddess Psyche, urging her to hear his words, and asking that she forgive him for singing to her her own secrets. He says that while wandering through the forest that very day, he stumbled upon “two fair creatures” lying side by side in the grass, beneath a “whisp’ring roof” of leaves, surrounded by flowers. They embraced one anothe...

                                This ode was written in May 1819 and first published in the Annals of the Fine Arts in July 1819. Interestingly, in both the original draft and in its first publication, it is titled ‘Ode to the Nightingale’. The title was altered by Keats’s publishers. Twenty years after the poet’s death, Joseph Severn painted the famous portrait ‘Keats listening to a nightingale on Hampstead Heath’. Critics generally agree that Nightingale was the second of the five ‘great odes’ of 1819 and its themes are reflected in its ‘twin’ ode, ‘Ode on a Grecian Urn’. Keats’s friend and roommate, Charles Brown, described the composition of this beautiful work as follows: ‘In the spring of 1819 a nightingale had built her nest near my house. Keats felt a tranquil and continual joy in her song; and one morning he took his chair from the breakfast-table to the grass plot under a plum-tr...

                                                              'Ode on a Grecian Urn' is one of John Keats' most famous poems. He's a Romantic poet, and he wrote it in 1819 along with a bunch of other odes - he was kind of going through a little bit of an 'ode period.' They're known as his  'Great Odes of 1819.'  Some of the other ones are 'Ode to a Nightingale,' 'Ode on Melancholy' and 'Ode on Indolence.' An  ode  is really just a kind of poem that usually focuses on a single person or a thing or an event, and it's kind of a tribute to that thing. So if you were in love with someone you could write them an ode. You could write an ode to Chipotle if you love burritos as much as I do. You can really write an ode to anything; you just have to really be 'once more with feeling' about it. As in "Ode to a ...

                                                                        With reference to  John Donne’s “The Ecstasy”, Grierson explains “Ecstasy in Neo-platonic philosophy was the state of mind in which the soul ,escaping from the body attuned to the vision of God, the one, the absolute.” The term ecstasy denotes the transition to a higher level where absolute truths are apprehensible to us beyond sense, reasoning and intellect. Just as another metaphysical poet, Richard Crashaw, describes spiritual or religious ecstasy in his “Hymn to St Teresa”. J Weemes asserts that ecstasy occurs when “the servants of God were taken up in spirit, separate as it were from the body, that they might see some heavenly mystery revealed unto them.” In the prescribed poem, the souls of the two lovers free themselve...

                                                                “The Flea” by John Donne is a humorous poem about a man trying to seduce a woman with persuasion. Each space between stanzas is related to an action taken by the woman which the speaker responses.  Stanza One The poem's speaker, in an effort to woo a lady and convince her to sleep with him, discusses how a flea has bitten them both and mingled their blood, a euphemism for intercourse. The speaker claims there is no "sin; nor shame; nor loss of maidenhead." Stanza Two The speaker, once again, attempts to persuade the object of his affection by claiming that since their blood has already been mingled in the flea, they might as well, therefore, mingle their blood amorously. Stanza Three he object of the speaker's affection has k...