Meenakandasamy's Poem

Cummings and Pablo Neruda present the theme of their poems by having their two speakers addressing the women they love. The two speakers cope with the idea of prospective change in two completely different ways: Cummings’s speaker faces the end of his relationship as a situation that hurts him but in the end he accepts it, while Neruda’s speaker doesn’t care about his lover’s past as the only thing he wants is to make a couple with her. Thus, there are both similarities and differences in the poetic devices used in the two poems, while the tone of the speakers’ voice differs too, as in the first poem is sad and melancholic whereas in the second poem is confident and

Devdas as the word comes to mind it conjures up the visage of a haggard, world-weary, lovelorn soul, driving himself to drink and hurtling on relentlessly on the path to self-destruction. The ‘Devdas Metaphor’, a time-honoured, enduring tragic symbol of unfulfilled love, has captivated readers and film-going audiences for the better part of a century now. Devdas has several adaptations and translations and therefore it is good to look at the specific ways in which the Devdas metaphor has engaged our imagination over several generations. Saratchandra Chattopadhyay’s Devdas was published in Bengali in 1917. It was also a time when the forty-year old writer has just experienced his meteoric rise to fame. Saratchandra Chattopadhyay

The poem “Dear Matafele Peinam” by Kathy Jetñil-Kijiner is a tremendously moving poem about climate change. To begin, two of the main symbols of this poem are the lagoon and hands. Firstly, the lagoon symbolizes what the world could look like if people do not change. It shows the negative aspects of the world, and it also highlights the direction Earth is going. This symbol can be interpreted from the quote “men say that one day / that lagoon will devour you” (10-11). This implies that scientists are claiming that the Earth is headed in the wrong direction, and change is necessary before Earth devours its residents. Next, hands symbolize collaboration and change. Whenever hands were mentioned, it was always associated with change. A few examples are “hands reaching out / fists raising up” (62-63) and “marching with signs / hand in hand / chanting for change NOW” (80-82). These are powerful statements about rallies and statements about change. The hands are symbols of how the only way to save the planet for the future generations is to collaborate and work together to achieve a common goal.

In social trust: a touchy subject by Todd Partridge, the idea that touch is a bad thing and must be challenged is brought to us as readers. After a bus-encounter, Partridge realizes how hyper-aware everyday people are of the concept of touch. Partridge broadens his argument and includes a slew of evidence that bombards the reader. Todd Partridge is a dual major in mathematics and psychology, and he explains his argument through plenty of evidence and personal experiences. To agree with partridge is to provide hope is a seemingly disbanded society.

In the poem “Passed On” by Carole Satymurti, the speaker tells a story almost as in a novel of their mother and how she left them a box of index cards with advice on life when she died. The speaker’s gender seems to be female. In the poem, the poet presents the theme of growing up and becoming one’s own person through the maturation and acceptance process. She personifies the index cards themselves, comparing them to her mother. They also characterize the speaker and her mother and create a mood of sadness and longing, implying that perhaps the mother has been dead for some time, but the speaker has never truly accepted this.

Through the fictional works, Anand has given a voice to the voiceless marginalized lot in the society. He writes about the oppressed, suppressed, exploited and humiliated people who face social, political, economic and cultural exclusion. In Coolie (1936), Mulk Raj Anand dramatizes the tragic life of the marginalized class i.e. the poor in the society. It is a suffering saga of Munoo who performs variegated jobs as a domestic servant, coolie, and rickshaw puller for sustenance. He struggles in the life for food, shelter, identity and sympathy and finally dies of consumption. The poor are often looked down upon by the rich as worthless, having no existence and significance as human beings. The marginalized often suffer at the hands

This poem is lyrical as it is expressing the writer’s emotions about his hardships in life, but also didactic as it teaches you to forge your own path in life. This poem follows a ABAB rhyme pattern, and has four stanzas which includes four quatrains. The first stanza indicates the difficulty in life and thanks thegods for the strength they’ve given him. The second stanza tells us of this soul who has never complained even when things are of misfortune, and would rather endure than to lose pride. The third stanza describes this threatening world we live in, and

All these lines present sexual connection between the goddess and the persona. The speaker asks the goddess to enter him—to become his ally. The grueling anxiety of the speaker represents the aloneness and eagerness of the persona to feel the goddess. Through metaphorical and symbolic words, the poet is able to hide the real meaning of his verses.

Tom Leonard and John Agard are both poets. The two are of strong cultures, Leonard from a rich Scottish background, Agard from a mixed background of Portugal and the Caribbean. They both are capable of poetic complaint. Through the years, these literature artists have experienced many cultural injustices. Leonard’s poem “Six O’clock News” and Agard’s poem “Half-Caste” embody their cultural difficulties and experiences, and are both explicit pieces of cultural identity and how these people are looked upon by society. The meanings of these poems will be discussed and examined in depth in this essay.

Rabindranath Tagore (1861-1941) was the youngest son of Debendranath Tagore. Tagore had early success as a writer in his native Bengal. With his translations of some of his poems he became rapidly known in the West. In fact his fame attained a luminous height, taking him across continents on lecture tours and tours of friendship. For the world he became the voice of India's spiritual heritage and for India, especially for Bengal, he became a great living institution.

Of all literary forms, if drama is the most dependent upon and sensitive to its immediate audience, Poetry is what matters most to a contemporary mind. I.A. Richards once said, Poetry is the revelation of scholarship in men who constitute the intellectual upper limit of a generation. Whatever may be the elements of truth in it, this much is certain that fifty years before when science and technology did not make a rapid headway, Poetry was treated as the be all and end all of intellectual activities of man. In terms of poetry the scholarship of a nation was measured and assessed. The literary milieu in which Dr. Jayanta Mahapatra impinged was a milieu that was imbued with a classical scholarship. Myth, legend and folkore dominated the intellectual

Can we touch anything? The simplest answer to the question would be “yes,” but is it actually possible to come into literal physical contact with anything? For the purposes of this research essay, it is important to redefine the meaning of the word “touch.” This part is crucial because it helps to understand what this research essay is about and how

Bhagyalakshmi writes straight forward and thought-provoking poetry with strong feelings of unhappiness about the sufferings and invalidation of women. She has written many first-person poems unfolding her thoughts and analyzing her own unique thought structure. In some poems, women’s condition and horrors of ill-treatment are in the poet’s mind and she makes the reader think deep. She presents silent sufferings- women’s silent sufferings and agony through a ‘bird’ in ‘A bird’s eye view’. In this poem, her speaker is a woman who finds herself an ‘odd bird’, asks questions and summarizes her own conclusion:

It highlights sufferings, exploitation and sacrifices of women due to their dislocation and abduction during parition days. Here, Amrita Pritam brought out women’s experience under patriarchy. She put the marginalized at the center stage of the novel. The way she has captured the pains and traumas of partition displays that she is a highly sensitive poetess.

The real source of creative tension and dilemma in her poetry is between her pervasive philosophic preoccupation and an insistent awareness of the ties stemming from the surrounding milieu. Her problem of tension and dilemma is due to the dissonance and discrepancies of her present background and her own personal life or private self. Apart from this, her tension and dilemma lies in quest