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Sujata Bhatt: Garlic in War and Peace|poem|Analysis |Notes
In peace they rubbed garlic pasteacross their lower backsbefore they lay together.A slow cleansing – it wassticky, then strangely cool.It was their secret bitetheir strongest aphrodisiac.And they preferred green garlicwith large purple cloves. In war they dabbed garlic pasteover each wound –such endless wincing and endless those white cotton bandages.The stench of pus and garlicfinally…
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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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H.G.WELLS : The Door in the wall. |Analysis |notes|A Levels|CIE |Past exams questions
Basics: ‘The Door in the Wall’ is a short story written by H.G. Wells, first published in 1911. It explores themes of escapism, the search for meaning and fulfillment, and the conflict between societal expectations and personal desires. The story revolves around a successful politician named Lionel Wallace, who recounts his experiences as a child.…
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McEwan Ian: The Atonement |Marxist literary theory |Analysis
The novel ‘The Atonement’ by Ian McEwan tells the story of Briony Tallis, a young girl from a wealthy family, who falsely accuses her sister’s lover, Robbie Turner, of a crime he did not commit. The novel explores themes of class, power, and social inequality, making it ripe for analysis using Marxist literary theory. https://literarybl.blogspot.com/2023/04/marxist-analysis-on-atonement-by-ian.html?m=1
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Bram Stoker: Dracula
Abraham Stoker was born in Dublin in 1847 to William Stoker, a civil servant at Dublin Castle, and Charlotte Stoker, a social crusader. By his own account, he was an invalid in early childhood, unable to walk until the age of seven, although in later life he never explained what his illness had been. He…
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Emily Dickinson: An awful Tempest mashed the air | notes| device |analysis
An awful Tempest mashed the air – Dickinson digs into her angst. She faces her inner turmoil, doing her best to understand what are the changes- they agonise her. Stanza 1: a quatrain. Rhyming pattern : abcbTone: grieving about her loss of peace.Atmosphere: gloomy An awful Tempest mashed the air –The clouds were gaunt, and…
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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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Gillian Clarke ; Sunday |second | notes|analysis| A-levels
Structure: – 5 Sextets with irregular rhyming pattern. Each sextet telling someone’s task or participation in Sunday. – the idea is that Sunday is a special day to care about the house, one’s likes and dislikes as well as to laze around, doing nothing in general but enjoying everything in a carefree manner. Stanza 1:…
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Emily Dickinson: A Bird came down the Walk – |Analysis |Notes| A-levels
Stanza three: Between stanza 2 and 3, there is Enjambement as the I-figure continues to study the movements and behaviour of the bird. It fascinates the latter as from a quiet and cozy bird, it transforms into an entity fearing for its life. …with RAPID eyesThat HURRIED around : emphasis is on the sudden fear…
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Pope : from An Essay on Criticism |Analysis |notes
Pope started writing poems as a medium to reveal his emotions and pen down his frustrations against the society and its institutions. Ambitious, he was a very driven writer, choosing his themes to reveal the hidden agendas of the society. He was largely self-educated as he suffered from a spinal deformation. Moreover, he was targeted…
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