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“Ode on Solitude” was written by Alexander Pope, when he was twelve years old. Here poet wants to live alone means in solitude. First he says that these men are happy who have paternal acres, which lived in his native through his breathe. Those who have his own land and ground who are happy. Then he talks about season like summer because in this season man can sit and rest below the trees. In the winter season people get relief to the fire. Then he turns to days, hours and years, to pass softly and it creates health of body and peace of mind. These all things are for the general human beings. He shared his experience of living a life presented through this poem. ‘Ode on Solitude’ means all alone he wants to live a life. He wants to sound sleep by night, wants to study and ease together mixed creates sweet recreation. His solitude leads toward innocence and meditation. According to Pope only meditation is one thing that concentrates in solitude. He wants to live life but unseen and...

Fame and Friendship is written by H.A. Dobson . Here poet wants to convey that fame is not as good as friendship. Fame is immortal and friendship is mortal. If we compare first stanza with second stanza we know that poet shown the reality of life. First stanza, “Fame is a food that dead men eat, I have no stomach for such meat.” Above lines speaks about that there is no value of fame in our life because fame is like a food that dead men eat. Why poet compare fame with dead men? Because one day fame will die with the person.     Second stanza, “But Friendship is a nobler thing, Of Friendship it is good to sing.”  Friendship is connects one person to the other. So many ideas, thoughts, feelings, emotions share by friendship and it is the bridge that connects our relations. At the end men will die but their sweet memories always lives. It is the experience of recall and past and through it friendship always lives. Friendship is a nobler thing ...

‘She Walks in Beauty’ is a poem written by Lord Byron . Here poet compares woman’s beauty with night. Poet notices her eyes, her face “all that’s best of dark and bright” are joined. Her beauty contrasted with “gaudy” daylight. In the second stanza, he reflects on the balance in the woman’s beauty: “One shade the more, one ray the less”. Then he turns about inner life and external beauty- as an expression of thoughts that dwell in a place, perhaps her mind, beautiful face and beautiful head, both pure and dear. In the final stanza, he turns into her face that in her face silent expression of peace and calm in her cheek, brow and smiles. Here poet shows that though the woman is very beautiful but she is not egoistic. He compares her face with daylight and other natural elements. She is very calm and her silent expression shows that her thoughts are very powerful. Her thoughts are pure like her natural beauty. So, here poet praises her beauty with her thoughts. 

The Slave’s Dream is written by H. W. Longfellow. Here the dream of slave shown by Longfellow . This poem starts with man lying near a field of ‘ungathered rice’. In his hands he holds a sickle, for the use of harvesting crop. He saw one dream about his native homelands.  In his dream, he back in his homeland, and transformed into a ‘Kingly’ presence, expanse of land, freedom movement and avails himself of the opportunities. He met her lovely wife, children and kisses his face. Then the description of horse, beautiful  flamingos , beautiful ocean side, and various animals likes lion, the hyena and river horse seen by him. Desert and forest symbolizes cry of freedom. At the end, he lying in direct sunlight, he neither feels the scorching sun nor the stinging lashes. Now body of slave is lifeless, soul-free from the bonds of slavery. For him live a life is like enslavement and death is like freedom. What is the situation of slave and how he suffers in society?...

La Belle Dame Sans Mercy is originally written by John Keats but title borrowed from Alain Chartier’s La Belle Dame Sans Mercy, 15 th century poem. It is a ballad and also follows the characteristics of it for example, simplicity of language, absence of detail and supernatural power. Title itself suggest that this lady is beautiful but without mercy. May be Keats has experience of pain of love and pleasure. Here in this poem story of one knight and beautiful lady. First hi is very attractive towards her outer beauty and sings a song of her praise. He praises her long hair, cheeks compares with rose, her foot and it is light, her eyes is wild, and then he made for her garland of roses.   But at the end he realizes that this lady is beautiful but without mercy. She uses the supernatural power through her magic and did this. I studied “Archetypal Criticism” by Northrop Frye , in this criticism he used many myths, social rituals, dreams and primordial images. Here...

Mourning Becomes Electra is a play written by Eugene O’Neill in 1922 . Title itself suggests that ‘Mourning’ that death and Electra complex connected with this also. Major characters are Ezra Mannon, Lavinia, Orin, Justine, Adam Brant, Hazel etc. Gardener of Mannon house is also central character because when play starts at that time only he is present to the outside. Here this play divided into three parts, 1.      Homecoming 2.      The hunted 3.      The Haunted After ten years, Ezra Mannon come to home and this home is on one island. Justine is the wife of Ezra Mannon and she has a relationship with Adam Brant. Lavinia is a daughter of Ezra and Justine. But Justine has not good relation with her own daughter because Justine believes that, “You are born out of disgust.” It means that when Lavinia was born at that time may be Justine has not healthy relation with Ezra. Then Ezra became ill at th...

The Old Man and the Sea is a novella written by Earnest Hemingway in 1952. Major characters are old man- Santiago, one little boy Manolin and the fish named Marline. Struggle of an old man and how he suffers in critical situation is shown by Hemingway. Eighty-four days he went for his journey and he catches a fish but at last he got nothing. Because at the end of the story only skeleton of Marline (fish) less. Here we can see that how he against the time and nature. Sea is presented here very symbolic way because our life is also very deep that one has to survive and have to face all the difficulties and circumstances. At the end of the story, old man lying on the bed and it prove the symbol of Christianity. Here one question arises in our mind that why Hemingway puts the old man? May be he proves that whether the person is old or young it is not important because struggle for every person is necessary or even compulsory. Old man is very enthusiastic person and happi...

‘The Scarlet Letter’ is a novel written by Nathaniel Hawthorne in 1950 . Major characters are Hester Prynne, Arthur Dimmesdale, Chillingworth, and Pearl. Hester represents individual and free fate of will. She suffers a lot in puritan society because of her sin and crime. She has relationship with Arthur Dimmesdale without marriage and then she became pregnant. But puritan society and these people believes that she done crime but why this situation creates in her life? This nobody can see but behind this circumstances one reason. Her husband Chillingworth not came from eight years. May be she tired and bored with one type of situation. That’s why she thinks of further relationship of Dimmesdale. Pearl, her little daughter is a symbol of her love. Pearl is a child so she is very innocent but used by puritan magistrates as object. Even they can’t think about her. In the scaffold scene, on the bosom of Hester symbol of “A” given by magistrate. Because they think she done cri...

‘The Birthday Party’ is written by Harold Pinter in 1957.   Major characters are Petey, Meg, Stanley, Goldberg, Mccann, Lulu, etc. Trivial aspect of shown by Pinter. One side we laugh and other side sometimes we feel that this character is n bad situation and we have kind for that person. Master-slave morality, silence-pause technique, torrent of dialogues, symbol of toy-drum and interrogation scene these all things are connected with one another. Sometimes we may feel that what’s going on the stage because it is very difficult to understand the deep thinking process of characters. Backgrounds of characters were not clearly shown by Pinter.  One boarding house and in this house husband-wife named Petey and Meg lived and with that people one thirty years old Stanley also stayed. He is a piano-maker and artist. One time Petey is reading newspaper and Meg listened to him and asked so many questions about regular events. Once time Meg told Stanley that two persons are...

‘Waiting for Godot’ is a play by Samuel Beckett in 1949 . Title suggests that ‘Waiting’ is an endless process of life and ‘Godot’ is the idea of God. Here one question arises in the mind of reader that Godot will come at the end of the play or not. But it is an abstract idea for every human being whether we believe or not. When this idea end at that time new idea starts and this is existence of human. ‘Idea of God’ criticize by Nietzsche that “God is dead.” Hegel, Jean Paul Sartre, Nietzsche gave the idea of existence. Here in this play, major characters are Vladimir, Estragon, Pozzo, Lucky, One little boy (messenger of Godot) and one invisible character Godot portrays by Beckett. Setting is country road, tree and Vladimir and Estragon doing such activity repeatedly. But these two characters are very opposite if each other that one is more thankful person and other is not more conscious. Vladimir is connected with mind and Estragon is connected with body. Symbol of hat...

‘To the Lighthouse’ is a novel written by Virginia Woolf in 1927 . Idea of patriarchal society breaks down by Woolf. Major characters are Mr. Ramsay, Mrs. Ramsay, Lily Briscoe, James, Charles Tansley, Prue, etc. Mrs. Ramsay has eight children and she happily manages all the things. She always cares for others like Indian woman. Sacrifice and kindness, we can see in the character of her. Woolf portray the other character who always opposite of Mrs. Ramsay and she is Lily Briscoe. Lily is a painter and she draws one picture of Mrs.Ramsay. Through her painting we can see whole story and what happening the next it also we can see here. She is a believer of free fate of will, freedom and against patriarchal society. When in the novel Charles Tansley says that, “Woman cannot write or paint.” At that time Lily is against this idea and believes that woman must have their own room and money for living a life. It indicates that she is very opposite of Mrs. Ramsay. One side ch...

‘The Waste Land’ poem is written by T.S .Eliot in 1922, and it is epic poem. This poem divided into five parts. Every part suggest fragmented and broken image of west. Here, T.S. Eliot showed the infertile and barren land of west and mechanical life of that people. We can see here also reference of Upanishad and Buddha. Let’s see five parts of the poem. 1.      The Burial of the Dead 2.      A game of Chess 3.      The Fire Sermon 4.      Death by Water 5.      What the Thunder Said! How sexual perversion and spiritual degradation connected with each other? According to Bible sex is a sin. But it is enjoyable activity doing by man and then new birth take place. Spirituality connected with rebirth and sex is the root of regeneration. But here T.S. Eliot talks about sexual characters like, Madam Sosotris, Typist, Clerk, One-eyed Merchant etc. Tiresias is a narrat...

          Saat Pagla Aakaskma  is a novel written by Kundanika Kapadia. In this novel central character is Vasudha. Beginning to end there is a Vasudha’s journey of life, and she generalize the whole life of woman. Vasudha get married with Vyomesh and their marriage life beguns. But slowly and steadily Vyomesh is not interested in Vasudha and always busy with his work, and he always expects Vasudha to complete all works in right time. So there is no hope, desire and dreams for Vasudha but Vyomesh alwas live in his own life. Vasudha sacrificies her whole life for his husband and they have children also, one is Ashesh and the other one is Harsh. Their childhood to maturity Vasudha take all the responsibilies and then Ashesh and Harsh get married. Their wivws are also good. Then Vasudha is tired of her life and think to get retirement. She leaves her home, and join in Anandgram, it is pushpvatika near by sea. Many char...

What is Culture? If we give example, one is educated family and the other is uneducated family. In educated family, there will be only one or two children but in rural family, there will be five or six children. Uneducated people mostly believe in God blindly, educated family is not good because they are corrupted. In Bhavnagar, there is a Victoria Park. Outside on the walls of the park, there are wall paintings which show our culture through its images like " Save Girl Child", "Save Water", "Save Lion", and other things. These paintings are not reflected in the way but are negatively depicted. People don't care about wastage of water, cutting trees and other natural elements and so these paintings are necessary. One side we call the holy river the Ganga as "Gangamaiya" and on the other side we pollute its water and we also cut down many trees. The third point is about majority and minority. Majority always stands on power position and mino...