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Antigone is the lead heroine of Sophocles’s play ‘Antigone’. This is a Greek tragedy that was written by the famous Greek tragedian Sophocles. Sophocles is one of the three Greek tragedians whose plays have survived till date. Antigone is a… Read More »Character Sketch of Antigone

Sonnet 30 is one of the 154 sonnets written by the greatest poet and playwright of all time, William Shakespeare. In this poem he writes about his state of mind that is the result of his affection for a young… Read More »Shakespeare’s Sonnet 30 Summary & Analysis

Contents Read the poem About the poet Summary ‘My grandmother’s House’ is a nostalgic poem penned down by the popular Indian author and poet Kamala Das. In this poem, the poet pours down her heartfelt remembrance of the days spent… Read More »Analysis of ‘My Grandmother’s House’ by Kamala Das

Palem Apokpi, mother who gave birth to me, to be a man how I hated leaving home ten years ago. Now these hills have grown on me. But I’m still your painfully shy son with a ravenous appetite, the boy… Read More »A poem for Mother by Robin S Ngangom

Not once can I sayI am the captainbehind this wheel of fire.I remember misplacinga bronze bellsomewhere, sometime.I left behind many untended hearths.Rushing back I discoveredsomething had changed me.I can sayI am this or that,that I envied the characterof water and… Read More »The Strange Affair of Robin S. Ngangom by Robin S. Ngangom

I remember the night my mother was stung by a scorpion. Ten hours of steady rain had driven him to crawl beneath a sack of rice. Parting with his poison – flash of diabolic tail in the dark room –… Read More »The Night of the Scorpion by Nissim Ezekiel

It started as a pilgrimage Exalting minds and making all The burdens light, The second stage Explored but did not test the call. The sun beat down to match our rage. We stood it very well, I thought, Observed and… Read More »Enterprise by Nissim Ezekiel

Her hair was black as a raven’s wings, Her cheek the tulip’s hue did wear, Her voice was soft as when night winds sing, Her brow was as a moonbeam fair; Her sire had joined the wake of war;- The… Read More »An Orphan Girl by HLV Derozio

There is a house now far away where onceI received love……. That woman died,The house withdrew into silence, snakes movedAmong books, I was then too youngTo read, and my blood turned cold like the moonHow often I think of goingThere,… Read More »My Grandmother’s House by Kamala Das