Characters Kanai Dutt: Indian‚ 42 years old; translator; knows 6 languages; at around 10 was sent to Lusibari to be “rusticated” when speaking back to the teacher; unmarried; lives in New Deli; runs a bureau of translators; Piyali Roy: Indian by descent; does not speak Bengali; from Seattle but born in Kolkata‚ left when 1 year old; cetologist; has an uncle in Kolkata (big man in government); late 20s; her mother suffered from cervical cancer; Nilima Bose: Mashima - “aunt”; 76 years old; Kanai’s
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N.Sukanya PhD Research Scholar Department of English Periyar University Salem-11 Nature as a Creator and Destroyer in The Hungry Tide Man‚ though wonders at the beauty of nature and its creations‚ fails to realize that they are also part of the web of life in the earth. Moreover‚ they adopt an anthropocentric attitude towards nature which‚ in fact‚ results in exploitation of it. This kind of attitude towards nature has urged several critics and writers to warn them of nature’s two-sided
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Both The Hungry Tide and The Interesting Narrative Of Olaudah Equiano are tales of sociological hardships combined with a life bound to the sea. The ocean plays a significant role in the text offering disempowerment to some whilst empowering others. In The Interesting Narrative the slave trade was in full swing and a capitalist attitude heavily dominates the text‚ whilst in The Hungry Tide capitalism plays a smaller role and the humanitarian backdrop of the story is a more central theme. In this
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Sense and Sensibility‚ published in 1811‚ is a British romance novel by Jane Austen‚ her first published work under the pseudonym‚ "A Lady." Jane Austen is considered a pioneer of the romance genre of novels‚ and for the realism portrayed in her novels‚ is one the most widely read writers in English literature. A work of romantic fiction‚ Sense and Sensibility is set in southwest England in 1792 through 1797‚[1] and portrays the life and loves of the Dashwood sisters‚ Elinor andMarianne‚ daughters
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The Question of Ideology in Amitav Ghosh’s The Hungry Tide The stalwarts of Indian writing in English like Salman Rushdie‚ Khushwant Singh‚ Mukul Kesavan‚ Vikram Chandra‚ Amitav Ghosh and the like‚ are writing in a postcolonial space using novel as a means of cultural representation. Their novels are generally assumed to be engaged in postcolonial consciousness but a close study of the thematic range proves that the novels also attempt to universalized humanistic gesture‚ for human nature and social
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Appreciation on The Tide Rises‚ The Tide Falls The Tide Rises‚ the Tide Falls is one of the famous poems of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow‚ an American poet of the 19th century. This poet is created in the author’s seventies. Thus‚ there is something of symbolism in the lines‚ but this essay would focus on the relation between the pattern and the idea of the poem. The whole poem has 3 stanzas. The first two stanzas follow the same end rhyme of aabba‚ while the third stanza is in a rhyme of aacca. Generally
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it. Their poems Break‚ Break‚ Break (Tennyson)‚ and The Tide Rises‚ the Tide Falls (Longfellow) use repetition and loaded words to convey the theme of accepting death in order to truly live. The writers are able to convey their theme through their symbolical/metaphorical use of the sea. In The Tide Rises‚ the Tide Falls‚ Longfellow uses the sea to represent nature’s consistency. The poem begins and ends with the words‚ “the tide rises‚ the tide falls.” These words are present in each stanza and show
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contrasts. The first is “The Tide Rises‚ the Tide Falls” by Henry Longfellow and the second is “Before I could not stop for Death” by Emily Dickinson. In “The Tide Rises‚ the Tide Falls‚” the poem has a narrative of a traveler who enters a quiet town from the sea and never returns. It is never stated directly that the traveler has died‚ but the following lines could imply it; “The day returns‚ but nevermore Returns the traveller to the shore‚ And the tide rises‚ the tide falls.” Either way‚ despite
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Name: Jesseli Anne Gutierrez III-B Agustin Gutierrez Memorial Academy I. Introduction A. The Tide Rises‚ The Tide Falls B. Henry Wadsworth C. There was a tide that time when a traveller chose to go along the shore and suddenly died. That just explained that life continues after death. D. In the poem “The Tide Rises‚ The Tide Falls”‚ Henry Wadsworth‚ the author uses alliteration in almost every verse of the poem. He also uses imagery as he described the footprints that remained in the
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Europe and the first notable group to break the chain was the Fireside Poets. This group was made up of four famous poets and their most famous poems have a common theme: death. The poems in question are Longfellow’s “ A Psalm of Life” and “ The Tide Rises‚ The Tide Falls” and Lowell’s “ The First Snowfall”. Each is about death and the different ways of viewing a common occurrence in nature. “ A Psalm of Life” represents death as an end to life not a goal. During this time period‚ many wasted their lives
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