The Topper's guide for good marks

THE POEM: 1:There is a house now far away where once                                           2: I received love……. That woman died, 3: The house withdrew into silence, snakes moved 4:Among books, I was then too young 5: To read, and my blood turned cold like the moon                                 6: How often I think of going 7: There, to peer through blind eyes of windows or 8: Just listen to the frozen air, 9: Or in wild despair, pick an armful of 10: Darkness to bring it here to lie                                                  11: Behind my bedroom door like a brooding 12: Dog…you cannot believe, darling, 13:Can you, that I lived in such a house and 14: Was proud, and loved…. I who have lost My way and beg now at strangers' doors to                                          15: Receive love, at least in small change? EXAM NOTES WITH CRITICAL ANALYSES SUMMARY & POET BACKGROUND WITH THEMES : 1) POET BACKGROUND : ·           1:  Kamala

THE POEM: Have you ever tried meditation? Struggling hard to concentrate, and keeping your mind as blank as a whitewashed wall by closing your eyes, nose, ears; and shutting out every possible thought. Every thing. And, the only failure, that ever came, the only gross betrayal— was from your own skin. You will have known this. Do you still remember, how, the first distractions arose? And you blamed skin as a sinner; how, when your kundalini was rising, shaken, you felt the cold concrete floor skin rubbing against skin, your saffron robes, how, even in a far-off different realm— your skin anchored you to this earth. Amidst all that pervading emptiness, touch retained its sensuality. You will have known this. Or if you thought more variedly, about taste, you would discount it—as the touch of the tongue. Or, you may recollect how a gentle touch, a caress changed your life multifold, and you were never the person you should have been. Feeling with y

FIRST STANZA: 1:They flee from me that sometime did me seek. 2: With naked foot ,stalking in my chamber  3: I have seen them gentle ,tame & meek 4: That now are wild and do not remember. 5:That sometime they put himself in danger. 6:To take bread at my hand: & now they range. 7:Busily seeking with a continual change. SECOND STANZA: 8:Thanked be fortune it hath been otherwise 9: Twenty times better , but once in special 10:In thin array after a pleasant guise 11: When her loose gown from her shoulders did fall  12: And she caught me in her arms long and small 13:Therewith all sweetly did me kiss And softly said "dear heart how lol you thi" THIRD STANZA: 14:It was no dream: I lay broat waking 15:But all is turned thorough my gentleness 16:Into strange fashion of foresaking 17: And I have leave to go to her goodness 18:And she also ,to use newfangleness. 19:But since that I so kindly am

THE  POEM: 1: WHOSO LIST TO HUNT, I KNOW WHERE IS AN HIND. 2: BUT AS FAR AS FOR ME HELAS ,I MAY NO MORE  3: THE VAIN TRAVAIL HATH WEARIED ME SO SORE. 4: I AM OF THEM THAT FARTHEST COMTH BEHIND 5: YET MAY I BY NO MEANS MY WEARIED MIND 6: DRAW FROM THE DEER BUT AS SHE FLEETH AFORE 7: FAINTING I FOLLOW. I LEAVE OFF THEREFORE,  8: SITHENS IN A NET I SEEK TO HOLD THE WIND 9: WHO LIST HIM, I OUT HIM OUT OF DOUBT. 10: AS WELL AS I MAY SPEND HIS TIME IN VAIN. 11: AND GRAVEN WITH DIAMONDS IN LETTERS PLAIN . 12: THERE IS WRITTEN ,HER FAIR NECK ROUND ABOUT . 13: NOLI ME TANGERE FOR CAESER'S I AM 14: AND WILD FOR TO HOLD THOUGH I SEEM TAME. SUMMARY: The poem starts from the poet's aspirations to pursue and present his love for his beloved reportedly Anne Boleyn the queen at the court of monarch Henry VIII. 1 :The beginning verses of the poem portrays us the image of a poet as tired and sick of pursuing his love ( Anne Boleyn). Whom he

POEM 1: ONE DAY I WROTE HER NAME UPON STRAND 2: BUT CAME THE WAVES &WASHED IT AWAY 3: AGAIN I WROTE IT WITH A SECOND HAND 4: BUT CAME THE TIDES AND MADE MY PAINS HIS PREY 5: VAIN MAN SHE SAID THAT DOST VAIN ASSAY 6: A MORTAL THING SO TO IMMORTALIZE   7: FOR I MYSELF SHALL LIKE TO DECAY  &EKE MY NAME BE WIPED OUT LIKEWISE 8: NOT SO" (QUOD I ) LET BASER THINGS DEVISE 9: TO DIE IN DUST BUT YOU SHALL LIVE BY FAME  10: MY VERSE YOUR VIRTUES RARE SHALL ETERNIZE  11: AND IN HEAVEN WRITE YOUR GLORIOUS NAME 12: WHERE WHENAS DEATH SHALL ALL THE WORLD SUBDUE   13: OUR LOVE SHALL LIVE &LATER LIFE RENEW SHORT AND CRISP SUMMARY WITH ANALYSIS AND THEMES: 1: Edmund Spenser was one of the great writers of Elizabethan era , the era in which Shakespeare sufficed and prospered, Edmund's sonnets are one of the great literary pieces available to us ever since the elibethan era and on this sonnet an Hollywood song is also composed naming 'one

THE P OEM: 1: SWEET WARRIOR! WHEN SHALL I HAVE PEACE WITH YOU  2: HIGH TUME IT IS THIS WAR NOW ENDED WERE 3: WHICH I NO LONGER CAN ENDURE TO SUE 4: NE YOUR INCESSANT BATT'RY MORE TO BEAR 5: SO WEAK MY POWERS ,SO SORE MY WOUNDS APPEAR. 6: THAT WONDER IS HOW I SHOULD LIVE A JOT SEEINGNG MY HEART THROUGH- LANCED EVERYTHING WITH THOUSANDS ARROWS,WHICH YOUR EYES HAVE SHOT: 7: YE SHOOT YE SHARPLY STILL & SPARE ME NOT , 8: BUT GLORY THINK TO MAKE THESE  CRUEL STOURS. 9: YE CRUEL ONE WHAT GLORY CAN BE GOT 10: IN SLAYING HIM THAT WOULD LIVE GLADLY YOURS, 11: MAKE PEACE THEREFORE & GRANT ME TIMELY GRACE, 12: THAT ALL MY WOUNDS WILL HEAL IN LITTLE SPACE ANALYSIS & SUMMARY OF THE SONNET Edmund Spenser is an artist of Elizabethan times just around the time of Shakespeare's the time in which getting the eternal , unshakable and true love these feelings were very dominating for people living in Elizabethan time.

MAHESH DHTTANI'S : TARA INTRODUCTION TO THE PLAY THIS A PLAY COMPOSED BY MAHESH DHATTANI  AN ACTOR,A DIRECTOR,PLAYWRIGHT AND A SCREENPLAY WRITER . DHATTANI WAS BORN IN BANGALORE ON AUGUST 1958. EDUCTED AT BALDWIN'S HIGH SCHOOL AND GRADUATED IN HISTORY ,ECONOMICS AND POLITICAL SCIENCE FROM ST. Joseph's college of art and sciences.  WORKED AS A COPYWRITER  IN AN ADVERTISING FIRM SUBSEQUENTLY WITH HIS FATHER  IN BUSINESS.DATTANI HAS WON SAHITYA AKADEMI AWARD FOR HIS PLAYS.  THIS PLAY WAS FIRST PERFORMED AS TWINKLE TARA T CHOWDIAH MEMORIAL HALL BANGALORE ,ON OCTOBER 23 ,1990 BY DHATTANI'S PLAYPEN PERFORMING ARTS GROUP. IT WAS  SUBSEQUENTLY PERFORMED BY TARA AT SOPHIA BHABHA HALL  BY THEATRE GROUP.  BOMBAY ON NOVEMBER 9, 1991 AND DIECTED BY ALYUE PADAMSEE. TARA CENTRE ON THE EMOTIONAL SEPARATION THAT GROWS BETWEEN TWO CONJOINED TWINS FOLLOWING THE DISCOVERY THAT THEIR PHYSICAL SEPARATION WAS MANIPULATED BY THEIR MOTHER AND GRANDFTHER. TO FA