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The novel Moby Dick written by Herman Melville.  published in London in  October 1851 as  The Whale  and a month later in New York  as Moby Dick or  The Whale It is dedicated to Nathaniel Hawthorne .  Moby Dick  is generally regarded as Melville’s magnum opus and one of the greatest American novels.  It is an epic tale of voyage of whaling ship    Pequod and its captain, Ahab,  who  pursues the great Whale during a journey.  The story is told by a sailor named Ishmael, and Ismael explains that he goes to sea whenever he feels down. The narrator begins, " Call me Ishmael," it is one of the most recognisable opening lines. He first introduces to  Queequeg,   who has been out selling shrunken heads. Queequeg soon becomes Ishmael’s bosom friend and decided to  sail together from the historical port of Nantucket. In the port , they sign on with the  Pequod , Queequeg is more attractive empl...

To read the original poem click here, A Prayer for my Daughter by William Butler Yeats, the poem is related with his another poem " The Second Coming " which is written just few months before this poem.  Poem opens with the image of a new-born child sleeping in a cradle.  A storm is raging with great fury outside his residence. A great gloom is on Yeats’ mind and is consumed with anxiety as to how to protect his child from the tide of hard times ahead. The poet keeps walking and praying for the young child.  Poet  feels a kind of gloom and worry about the future of his daughter.  He says “As I walk and pray for my younger daughter, I imagine in a state of  excitement and reverie”  that the future years have already   come and that they seem to come dancing to the accompaniment of a drum which is beating  frantically. In the first stanza child is sleeping in the cradle and the hood of the cradle half-covers it.   A fur...

To read the original poem click here, Solitude means to be in a isolation  and has taken up a life of seclusion. We can say this could be for various reasons,  as one may have been born this way, one may have lost care for the world’s troubles, or one may just want to have a quieter life.   Poem relates isolation with happiness,  and to maintain this peace, one must not only remain out of the world, but also remain so secluded that others cannot pester with the world’s problems. This poem has an overall happy, content, and peaceful, yet a bit hopeful, mood.  In the first, third, and fourth stanzas, one can see the peaceful mood, and the hopeful mood can be seen in the fifth stanza.   In the first stanza narrator speakes about a simple man who only living in his land which is the land of his father. He breathed his native air on his own land.  In the second stanza, his desires are further explained, as he wants to farm and live off his...

To read the original poem click here , The poem projects the paths of the a slave. 'The Slave's Dream' by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, gives an insight into the life of a slave. . It is about the hope for equality of a black servant after the abolishment of slavery. Written during the abolitionism movement, 'The Slave's Dream' helps to raise awareness of the immoral injustices black people had to face. As the most important people at this time were whites, Longfellow must have used the colour of his skin to get people to listen to his point of view through his poems.  H. W. Longfellow uses this poem to show that black people had lives before slavery, but that the white race had taken them away. He also uses the proper diction, imageries and figures of speech throughout the poem. In the first stanza the slave pretended as if he is too tired and falls out of the extra weakness with the sickle in his hand. He is bare chested and hair buried in sand. It i...

To read the original poem click here , La Belle Dame Sans Merci as a poem appreciated as a poem of positivity. The poem written by John Keats it's divided into 12 stanza with the rhyme of A, B, C, D. A beautiful French title which converted into English, means "a beautiful lady without merci". Many think John Keats got the idea for the title from a medieval French poem written by one Alain Chartier (in old french merci meant mercy, not thank you as it does today) and he could also have been inspired by the earlier Scottish story of Thomas the Rhymer, who is taken off by the beautiful Queen of Elfinland on a white horse.  It is composed in the spring of 1819, is an exquisite ballad, recapturing, as it does, the simplicity, the spontaneity, the directness, the vividness, and the graphic force of the ancient models. It is John Keats’s finest ballad in English literature. Le Belle Dame Sans Merci is a ballad, a form of medieval art, which is revived by John Keats. ...

On 1st January, department of English arranged one special workshop, talk with author and translation workshop. Translation needs very much hardwork and influency in the language. That he has, he told us for translation and we all have tried to translate something. One collection of short stories 'Fictionaly', written by him. Which has great stories. He read his story in very amazing way. Which was very great experience to listen a story from the author. That story was highly fictional but very elegant. Love story and some elements of ghosts, so he taking us in the very deep fantastic world. He has great experience in translation, he told us that he is translating one Gujarati novel. Translation needs the vast area of vocabulary and literary sense.  After recess he gave us an information about translation. And one worksheet for translating some sentences. Translation is really good work, through this we can know about other's culture language. So we are also tri...

This blog is a part of thinking activity on similarities between The White Tiger and the film Slumdog Millionaire. The film is adoptation of the novel 'Q&A', written by Vikas Swarup. Brief information about Slumdog Millionaire . #Narrative structure - Wanted Poster # KBC show:- Narrative structure/device, in the novel and movie narrative is similar but device is different. In both the things flashback technique is used, in novel protagonist wrote a letters whereas in the movie there is remembrance of Q show. Balram Halwai is looking at his wanted poster and Jamal remembers his crimes. There is a satire on police system in both, the novel and film. Both the story goes on similar way. Balram and Jamal both are shown as Chaiwala. Through  the flashback technique characters recalls the deeds of past.  # Indianness:- India is the topic of narration in both the things. There's deep Indianness,  satire on police system, image of slums, two brothers, train...