(for a Caribbean island man in London who still wakes up to the sound of the sea)Morning and island man wakes upto the sound of blue surfin his headthe steady breaking and wombingwild seabirdsand fishermen pushing out to seathe sun surfacing defiantlyfrom the east; of his small emerald islandhe always comes back groggily groggilyComes back […]
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Farewell, thou child of my right hand, and joy;My sin was too much hope of thee, lov’d boy.Seven years tho’ wert lent to me, and I thee pay,Exacted by thy fate, on the just day.O, could I lose all father now! For whyWill man lament the state he should envy?To have so soon ‘scap’d world’s
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I read a great book in seven days with a lot of attention. The author of this book is Mrs. Iris M. Zola, a Puerto Rican author, literary theoretical researcher, and critic. The title of the book is “Colonialism and Culture: Hispanic Modernisms and the Social Imaginary”. This book presents a unique view and perspective
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Leanor Catton is a phenomenal author. Her first novel, The Rehearsal, was a gloriously impossible to miss and in fact ideal story of a story inside a story – or stories, really – that had the peruser’s brain turning with the intricacies of its account development. The plot – a gathering of adolescent young ladies
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The story “The Shadow in the Rose Garden” throws light on the emotional tension of a woman. She loves one man but marries another one out of necessity. In the end, both the husband and the wife are disillusioned but continue living together with a sense of actuality. They accept their new situation in the
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The story “The Duchess and The Jeweler” demonstrates the tussle between the rational and emotional forces in the mind of man. Whenever the emotional forces burst out, they take away everything, and man’s experience and reason cannot withstand them. It also depicts that the high ups are coming down facing moral decadence, and the commoners
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The English story “The Necklace” by Guy De Maupassant deals with the irresistible temptation to outshine and drastic limitations. What is the summary of the story of the necklace? Matilda is the central character of the story. She herself suggests that there is a very narrow margin between safety and disaster. A mere stroke of
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The story “The Tell-Tale Heart” deals with the abnormal psyche of the narrator who hates an old man for his pale bluish vulture eye. He is very repulsive to the spectacle of the old man’s vulture eye that he decides and plans to kill the old man in order to get rid of the eye
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The English story “Araby” deals with the emotional problems of a young bashful boy. It gives an insight into human beings. It also represents a tussle between the world of dreams and the world of reality. What is the summary of Araby? The author during his boyhood lived in a blind alley at North Richmond
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The story “The Happy Prince” is a fairy tale that combines two worlds: the world of the Happy Prince above and the real world below. The story is also a contrast between the temporary happiness sought by the prince and the real happiness achieved by the prince by helping the needy and the poor. The
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