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Sujata Bhatt: For Nanabhai Bhatt |poem | analysis |notes
In this dream my grandfathercomes to comfort me.He stands apartsilentand in his face I seethe patience of his treeson hot typhoid daysthat promise no rain.His eyesthe colour of a crow’s feather in children’s mud,yet filled with sharp mountain-top light. I’m sure this was the face the true bald man,Gandhiji saw when he confessedabout the Harijan…
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Sujata Bhatt: Eurydice Speaks | poem |Analysis | notes
Orpheus, I tell you I’m not in hell,this place is called Maine.All winter the cold wind burns my face,and I sweat, wading through all this snow.But it’s spring now:sounds of snow melting,water dripping off eaves, flooding crocusesand jack-in-the-pulpits.Pussy willows, cattails, forsythia suddenly awaken junipers tipped with pale new shoots. The wind flings pine cones my…
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Mark Twain: The frustration of Huckleberry Finn |Notes|Analysis |The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Mark Twain’s novel, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, offers a rich exploration of the frustrations experienced by its eponymous protagonist. Through Huckleberry Finn’s encounters and experiences, Twain sheds light on the societal constraints, moral dilemmas, and personal conflicts that contribute to Huckleberry’s frustrations. Twain employs narrative methods to depict and amplify his character’s struggle. I.…
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Aminatta Forna: analysis of Haywards Heath |notes
Haywards Heath by Aminatta Forna is a poignant and introspective short story that explores the complexities of memory, aging, and relationships. Through Attila’s character and his interactions with Rosie, the story delves into the themes of nostalgia, love, loss, and mortality, leaving the reader with a sense of melancholy and reflection on the fragility of…
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Bram Stoker: Dracula | notes
JONATHAN HARKER’S JOURNAL The impression I had was that we were leaving the West and entering the East; – Jonathan shares about his train journey to Buda-Pesth, which is strange but beautiful for him. He is no longer in his spectrum, changing cultures and ways of getting about. The food impels him to ask for…
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Mark Twain: Huckleberry Finn | Chapter 16|Analysis |notes|
Chapter 16:As he lives on the banks of the Mississippi, Twain wants to share his knowledge about the water vessels and their diversity. -There was a power of style about her. : shows how the dimensions and the look of a raft can impress the connoisseurs. Cairo is their dreamland;where both will be safe and…
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Emily Dickinson: A still- Volcano- Life poem|Analysis |notes|CIE
Stanza 1: Life is like a volcano which is ‘still’ – inactive/dormant volcano 🌋. She compares her life to a volcano, which may erupt at any time. That flickered in the night-: the volcano shows some movements but it is restricted.‘Flickered ‘ : the volcano is weakening.Her life is not as active nor pleasant as…
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Shakespeare: King Lear | Act 2,Sc 1 upto line 26|Analysis |notes
Act 2, Sc 1: Opening with Edmund meeting Curan. Curan shares news about Regan visiting Gloucester, with her husband, the Duke of Cornwall. Edmund is astonished as he does not expect guests on that day. He is bound to strategise ways of making Edgar look like a villain to Gloucester. Curan further informs him about…
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Shakespeare: The Merchant of Venice | source |Analysis |Notes
No one who reads the following brief summary of the First Tale of the Fourth Day (it is worked on the Boccaccio-Straparola pattern) will need to seek further for the source of the Merchant of Venice save in excess of that pedantry which is but idleness of the mind. Put in brief, the story comes…
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Shakespeare: King Lear | Act 1 Sc 1| Themes | Notes | Analysis
Theme of Honesty:Cordelia and Kent are banished for being honest.Gloucester,who is honest, when he talks about Edmund and he says that he loves Edmund but cannot accept the latter socially for he tarnishes his reputation. In the end of the scene: Honesty of Goneril and Regan when they reveal how they set Lear up by…
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Chaucer: The Prologue to Canterbury Tales |notes| some ideas| A-levels
The Canterbury Tales by Chaucer: Canterbury is a town, that hosts the Canterbury Cathedral, which is proclaimed to have curative powers. – Curative as in healing someone physically as well as mentally. The Canterbury Church ⛪ is known to be miraculous as many people’s prayers and wishes have been realised there. – Thus, it has…
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