work was The Fakir of Jungheera. Kashiprasad Ghose was one of the first Indians to publish a regular volume of English verse. The shair and other poems (1830) is a great contribution to the level of ’Gorboduc’ in English literature. Michael Madhusudan Dutt was equally a talented writer. His Meghanad Badha is a great Bengali epic and he wrote in English The captive Ladie. There followed a lot of writers. ’Derozio’s men’ who aspired to become eminent in the field. Besides writers‚ political leaders‚ religious
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Epic poetry stands alone as the most influential writing of all time (“Short History of English Literature”). No other authors created such exemplary masterpieces which provide cultural perspectives. Society worldwide has been molded significantly through the ages by the epic poets like Homer and Dante‚ inspiring stories of heroes‚ gods‚ and epic wars which have instilled strong morals throughout mankind. Without the sonorous writings‚ many successors to the epic authors would not have produced their
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"Our Casuarina Tree" Toru Dutt: the poetess‚ while living abroad‚ is pining for the scenes of her native land and reliving the memories of her childhood. In the first part of the poem the poetess depicts the casuarina tree trailed by a creeper vine like a huge python‚ winding round and round with the rough trunk‚ sunken deep with scars. It reached to the height touching very summit near the stars. The casuarina tree stood alone unaccompanied in the compound wearing the scarf of the creeper hung with
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human life. In this assignment‚ I would like to compare author’s use of two female characters in both ’The Ramayan’ and ’Paradise Lost’ as I try to explain the mythological themes expressed in these two old myths (Jung 64). Eve in ’Paradise Lost’ and Sita in ’The Ramayan’ are the two female characters used extensively by the authors in these separate stories in an attempt to explain the goals of human life and likewise the reason for the fall of man. The story exhibited by Milton in the book ‘Paradise
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Death : Emily Dickinson Night of the Scorpion : Nissim Ezekiel No Men Are Foreign : James Kirkup To the Indian Who Died in Africa : T. S. Eliot Shakespeare : Matthew Arnold To India – My Native Land : Henry Louis Vivian Derozio Our Casuarina Tree : Toru Dutt L Belle Dame Sans Merci : John Keats The Ballad Of Father Gilligan : W. B. Yeats Laugh and Be Merry : John Masefield The Slave’s Dream : H.W. Longfellow The Frog and the Nightingale : Vikram Seth INDIAN LANGUAGES: 2. AO NAGA (42): (Only two of
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ENGLISH-A CLASS XI Full Marks – 100 1. Prose – 20 marks 2. Verse – 20 marks Textual Grammar – 16 marks 1. Essay writing [350-400 words] – 12 marks 2. Rhetoric – 12 marks 3. Project – 20 marks Prose and Poetry – (40 m/40P) Prose 1. One of these Days-Gabriel Garcia Marquez 2. The Sunder-bans Inheritance- Bittu Sehgal 3. Making Writing Simple- J.B. Priestley 4. Through the Tunnel- Dorris Lessing Poetry 1. Stolen Boat – William Wordsworth 2. You who never arrived – Rainer Maria Rilke 3. Snake- D H Lawrence
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00……………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………….- .0 ’’ THE CASUARINA TREE ’’ is one of the most touching poem by Toru Dutt who was born in Rambagan ‚ Kolkata. She had two siblings Aru & Abju . Both of them died and Toru was gripped in deep melancholy. Actually this fact influences the entire lyric......... The casuarina tree is winded round by a networks of creepers which resembles a python curling and crushing its
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Although Toru‚ the protagonist of Sakura Shrine Girls‚ comes from a family with a long lineage of priests he is more of a skeptic. Despite generations of his family all dedicating themselves to the understanding of the the spirit world‚ Toru simply doesn’t believe in gods or spirits at all. However‚ Toru does believe in keeping old practices alive‚ despite how silly they seem to him‚ which is why he goes and lives with his grandfather to receive training in the family tradition. Initially Toru thinks
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finding one’s self‚ yet what enables people to change? In Haruki Murakami’s novel‚ The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle‚ Toru is on a quest to find his wife and better understand her as well as their marriage after she leaves him. During this time‚ Toru meets his neighbor‚ a teenage girl‚ named May‚ who he shares many conversations with. Later‚ she moves to work at a wig factory and writes letters to Toru as a way of therapy‚ but they never get to him. Throughout the novel‚ May’s job at the wig factory enables
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For the post of Written Recruitment Test for the post of Postgraduate Assistants in Tamil Nadu Higher Secondary Educational Service. Syllabus: English (Subject Code: P02) Unit-I – MODERN LITERATURE (1400-1600) Poetry For Detailed Study Chaucer : Prologue to the Canterbury Tales Spenser : Faerie Queene - Book-I For Non-detailed Study Spenser : Prothalamion and Epithalamion Wyatt‚ Surrey: Selections in Peacock’s English verse‚ Vol-I Ballads : Peacock
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