Category: songs of ourselves
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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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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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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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Chaucer: The Merchant’s Tale | Marxist analysis.
Marxist criticism views literature as a reflection of the economic and social conditions of the time in which it was produced. Applying Marxist analysis to Chaucer’s ‘The Merchant’s Tale’ we can see the tale as a commentary on the class struggles and power dynamics of medieval England. https://literarybl.blogspot.com/2023/04/marxist-analysis-of-merchants-tale.html?m=1
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Aminatta Forna: Haywards Heath | notes | Analysis
Aminatta Forna: Aminatta Forna is a British-Sierra Leonean writer, born on September 18, 1964, in Glasgow, Scotland. Her father was a Sierra Leonean doctor, and her mother was Scottish. Forna spent her early childhood in Sierra Leone but was forced to flee to the UK with her family due to the civil war in the…
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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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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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Emily Dickinson: After great pain, a formal feeling comes… | notes| Analysis | poems | devices
After great pain, a formal feeling comes- Written in 1862, this poem dissects the bouts of anxiety and sadness which Emily has been facing. The most crucial and – though she could not know it – historically eventful year in Emily Dickinson’s life was 1862. She was undergoing an emotional disturbance of such magnitude that…
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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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