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Biograph by Arun Kolatkar summary & analysis
Read the poem About the poet Arun Balkrishna Kolatkar was an Indian poet who wrote both in Marathi and English. His poems are known for expressing the humour in everyday life. His first collection of English poetry, Jejuri won commonwealth Poetry Prize in 1977. The poem ‘biograph’’ is the poet’s representation of society and how people often… Read More »Biograph by Arun Kolatkar summary & analysis
Significance of the Chess game scene in Thomas Middleton’s ‘Women Beware Women’
Women Beware Women is a remarkable play written by Thomas Middleton which is divided into five acts. in his play, Middleton uses a very interesting scene of chess game which plays a very significant role in the plot of the play. The chess scene appears in Act Two Scene II. Middleton had a profound understanding… Read More »Significance of the Chess game scene in Thomas Middleton’s ‘Women Beware Women’
The Indian Summer by Jayanta Mahapatra
Over the soughing of the sombre windpriests chant louder than ever;the mouth of India opens. Crocodiles move into deeper waters. Mornings of heated middenssmoke under the sun. The good wifelies in my bedthrough the long afternoon;dreaming still, unexhaustedby the deep roar of funeral pyres.
Love Poem for a Wife – A. K. Ramanujan
Really what keeps us apartat the end of years is unsharedchildhood. You cannot, for instance,meet my father. He is some yearsdead. Neither can I meet yours:he has lately lost his temperand mellowed. In the transverse midnight gossipof cousins’ reunions amongbrandy fumes, cashews and the Absencesof grandparents, you suddenly grownostalgic for my past and Ienvy you… Read More »Love Poem for a Wife – A. K. Ramanujan
‘On the Bill which was passed in England for Regulating the Slave Trade; A short time before its Abolition’ poem by Helen Maria Williams
THE hollow winds of night no moreIn wild, unequal cadence pour,On musing fancy’s wakeful ear,The groan of agony severeFrom yon dark vessel, which containsThe wretch new bound in hopeless chains!Whose soul with keener anguish bleeds,As AFRIC’S less’ning shore recedes —No more where Ocean’s unseen boundLeaves a drear world of waters round,Between the howling gust, shall… Read More »‘On the Bill which was passed in England for Regulating the Slave Trade; A short time before its Abolition’ poem by Helen Maria Williams
Biograph (poem) by Arun Kolatkar
Knotting the cord, the midwife said,It’s a boy, it’s a boy, it’s a boy.Piercing an earlobe, the goldsmith said,Two bucks, just two bucks. Syringe in hand, the nurse said,It’s not gonna hurt, not a bit.Measuring my dick, Baban said,Mine’s bigger, bigger than yours. Punching my back, Baban said,My dad can lick your dad.Kicking my shin,… Read More »Biograph (poem) by Arun Kolatkar
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