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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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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
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: A murmur in the trees |Analysis |notes |notes
A murmur in the trees : the murmur travels among the trees. The trees are talking/ murmuring among themselves. Only the one who is perceptive and very observant can notice this ethereal conversation happening among the trees.Hence, the poet remains there, looking and understanding the exchanges in nature, among its entities. The murmur is transcendental…
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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|introduction |notes|analysis |CIE |IGCSE |Characters
Shakespeare has borrowed the plot of TMof V from this story, spicing it with his own humour 🤣 to end it as a comedy. Yet, the idea of anti-Semitism pervades, as the audience condemns the jew for the inhuman treatment of Ansaldo in the source and Antonio in Shakespeare’s play respectively. For Shakespeare, TMofV is…
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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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Gillian Clarke: February |Notes|Analysis
– the last month of winter.– it is drab with the snow melting, rain falling and muddy everywhere. – it is said to be the coldest month as the temperature drops significantly as last signs of winter shedding away.– the trees are bare; animals still hibernating and migrating.– nature is still in its dormant state.–…
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Peters Lenrie: HOMECOMING | Analysis | Notes| songs of ourselves
Homecoming: Lenrie Peters is one of the modern African Poets, who is also seen as one of most intellectual. He has been in England, after having spent a wondrous childhood in Gambia. Peters, along with the fellow colleagues from Gambian literary circle, is a pioneer ib African poetry. Though he treats the Africa concerns, his…
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