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"One Night at a Call Center" by Chetan Bhagat

                                                                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...

"Home Burial" by Robert Frost

                                                          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

                                                                          "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...

"Design" by Robert Frost

                                              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...

"The Gift Outright" by Robert Frost

                                                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 ...

“Fire and Ice” by Robert Frost

                                             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...

"Stopping By Woods On A Snowy Evening" by Robert Frost

                                   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 ...