The Mother - Somerset Maugham

The Mother' is a short story by William Somerset Maugham. It is a story about very possessive and jealous mother who killed her son's fiance because she couldn't bear anyone with her son.

Story opens with quarrel in tenement. New lodger La Cachirra was violently quarreling with the porter. Everybody was curiously watching and nobody know who the women is. It was said that she had spent seven years in prison and come out just one month before.

One day young boy comes asking for La Cachirra. Rosalia, one of the tenant gives address to him. He was her son Currito. She was so passionate for her son. When she noticed affection between his son and rosalia, she begun to hate rosalia very much.

The Postmaster

'The Postmaster is a short story by Indian writer Rabindranath Tagore. The writer considered as the greatest Indian literary figure of the twentieth century. He won the Nobel prize for literature.

'The Postmaster' is a story of attachment. The Postmaster takes his post to remote village Ulapur. Jr was from Calcutta and so he did not like the place. He feels like a fish out of water in the village.

Postmaster was living alone and had to cook himself. Ratan, an orphan girl help him occasionally. Postmaster shares his feeling with Ratan, tells about his family. Those memories were always haunting him. Postmaster teaches Ratan to read.

One day Postmaster falls ill and Ratan takes good care of him. Called village doctor, have pills on right time, sat up all night by his pillow, cooked his gruel for him. But Postmaster decides to apply for transfer. He applies on the ground of the unhealthiness of the place.

Postmaster was waiting for reply and one day it comes, telling that his application for transfer has rejected and so he resigned post and is going to home. He calls Ratan and says that he is going next day. Ratan feels so sad. She hopes that Postmaster would take her with him and asks also buy Postmaster laughs.

At the time of departure, Postmaster offers some money to Ratan but she did not accept it and run away crying. After Postmaster gone, still Ratan wanders near the post office with tears in her eyes.

A Cup Of Tea: Shorts Story

The author presents the affluence of Rosemary by describing her Lifestyle. She wrote the best dresses hosted the and finest parties   dined with the most important people. And shop ad from the best store of Paris and London. she could buy whatever she wanted and spend any amount of money of the things she like .

               Her dealings at the flower shop and the antique shop reflect her attitude while buying flowers; she says “I want those and those and those.....” At the antique store the main is more than happy to please her because of her social status.

              He is a shrewd man who knows how to win customers and pursued them into buying things. He compliments her for her past and present expensive object before her on her visit to the store. Rosemary is also aware of the power see wild over people because of her wealth the material possessions are very important to her.

Daffodils

Wordsworth is widely known as 'Nature poet". He was one of the representatives of Romantic period. They believed in subjectivity. Nature was at the center in every piece of work. Literary artist should be free in his expression of feelings and emotions. they were completely opposite to 'Classic writers', who believed in rules and regulation.  Wordsworth was of the opinion that;

" Let's throw everything and let's go to the Nature, nature will teach you everything"

One can find Nature as central element in Wordsworth poems and 'Daffodils' is also not an exception. He starts his poem by saying that he was wandering as a cloud floating above high hills and valleys. He discovered a field of daffodils by a lake. he was quite amused by the beauty of flowers and stares at it again and again. the wealth which Daffodils have given to him is priceless. he compared it with human being and said that Daffodils are dancing, fluttering and tossing their head as man. This is the great ability of poet to compare man with nature. 

For now, whenever he feels "vacant" or "pensive" the memory flashes upon "that inward eye / that is the bliss of solitude," and his heart fills with pleasure," and dances with the daffodils."

The poem follows 'ABABCC' rhyme scheme. First two stanzas are written into present tense while last stanzaa is written into past tense. I think that this poem is wonderful as it lets people love the nature and understand its real beauty, more nicely.In the last part of the poem, the readers learn the importance of nature and also know about the feelings of the poet.

Stopping by Woods on a snowy evening

Introduction:

    Robert Ftosts works "Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening" is one of the Frosts most discussed works, which is still shrouded with mystery. The rich imagery combined with the calm stanzas give the reader and an eereie glimpse into the speaker's decision to pause by an enticing snowy patch of woods. The tranquil unhurried flow the poem also give the reader a soft pictures image that with each stanza become a more vivid look into the intriguing thought of the speaker.

Whose woods these are I think I know,

His house is in the village though;

He will not see me stopping here

To watch his woods fill up with snow.

    Thr first stanza in the poem allows the reader to notice that the poem being presented is from the speaker's point of view by stating, "Whose woods these are I think I know". The poem continues through the first stanza as the speaker stop his horse drawn carriage to peer into the deep and dark woods covered in the innocents of snow. The captivating sight of the dark woods covered in the innocent white snow compels the speaker to stop and ponder which also intrigues  the reader to consider the reason for the unexpected stop. Maybe he stopped to admire the peaceful silence of the woods, where none of the ordinary limitations of the world seem to apply or maybe he stopped to take his mind off of some uneasy thought.

My little horse must think it queer

To stop without a farmhouse near

Between the woods and frozen lake

The darkest evening of the year.

     The second stanza of the poem encroaches upon the reader with the sense that the poem may not be as innocent and calm as it began. This stanza begins with the speaker beginning to wonder what the horse may be contemplating on such an inexcusable stop. The speaker thus, begins to hint at the idea that he has some distance left to travel, considering he is between the "Woods and the frozen lake." The speaker also states that it is "The darkest evening of the year" which could be a description of the winter solstice on December twenty-second. 

      Another point of view considered, could be that since he is trapped between the "woods and the frozen lake" on "the darkest evening of the year" he might be at a low point in his life or possibly something terrible has recently happened around this time.

He gives his harness bells a shake

To ask if there is some mistake.

The only other sound's the sweep 

Of easy wind and downy flake. 

     The third stanza of the poem opens with "He gives his harness bells a shake To ask if there is some mistake." The speaker describing the horse gives the reader the understanding of how perplexing his stop by the woods must be considering the horse is attempting to draw the speaker back to the task at hand. However, the speaker still overwhelmed by the sight of the woods continues unfazed by the horse and states "The only other sounds the sweep of easy wind and downy flake."

The Fakeer of Jungheera by Henry Derozio

The Fakeer of Jungheera by Henry Derozio.

The Fakeer of Jungheera is a long poem by Henry Louis Vivian Derozio. He was poet, novelist and writer. Most of the work in found to Indian religious, culture, rule and regulation, rigidity, culture etc. His writing in see to voice of against to society.    Something should be real and has society represented of cruel way. In this long poem, “The Fakeer of Jungheera” in protagonist of the Fakeer poem is a robber Fakeer or a mendicant,who belongs to some unidentified Muslim sect, while the heroine the widow Nuleeni, comes from an upper cast Bengali Hindu family.

                The Fakeer of Jungheera - A study in the Narrative Art. “The Fakeer of Jungheera” is the masterpiece creation of Henry Derozio. The Fakeer of Jungheera as a Revolutionary Poem Satipratha Caste System Religion. In his poems, he deals with the theme of patriotism, of love, of nature, of death. The central theme of ‘The Fakeer of Jungheera’ is the ignoble and in human practice of ‘sati’ in the contemporary orthodox Indian society. This rotten system had been in vogue in the Indian society for centuries, and Derozio vehemently protested the ‘sati’ system both in his social life and in the classroom as a teacher at the Hindu college, Calcutta. He wrote this poem to highlight the issue. Derozio’s uses Christian imagery, such as heaven and juxtaposes it against the Hindu tradition of sati, Muslim prayers and tantric tale of raja Vikramjit and Baital to create acquaint, romantic atmosphere. In poem we see that how nature and village people have to evil to this both lover life. We see that Nuleeni was protagonist and she is fear to become dying of them. Derozia was imagines to this pure and innocent woman “Nuleeni” became “Sati”. She loved Fakeer. Nuleeni was the widow and her husband was dying. At that time Nuleeni’s husband funeral pai and she thinks that her lover Fakeer came. She has thought to her husband but her eye in sun light of happiness to free this world.  

                            

The sun like a golden urn

Where floods of light ever burn,

And fall like blessings fast on earth,

Bringing its beauties brightly forth.

              She was free to this social thinks. But in the novel the women seem to Nuleeni face and how she thinks that at end of the day happy of them. She is center, silence. Innocent and prays to god. In that time Derozio portrayed to Nuleeni’s beauty.Naleeni ‘s Beauty “The smile comes from her ruby lips like the sun rushing from eclipse”.

                                       

                      Her hope for Fakeer “Nuleeni’s eye is not upon the dead to one after her parting thoughts have flead; and she remembers now the blissful hours where east she met him! Love is elysian beam”.  Nuleeni’s father could not bear the insult of his daughter Inter-cast marriages. He fights alone but could not stand the big army. He gets injured and dies on the lap of his beloved. Here we see that Death and love are together of them. In here we see that Victimization of Women NULEENI AS a VICTIM Widow of her husband Victim of “Sati Pratha” Victim by society Helpless Mentally dead Death of her “beauty” and “Charm” Death of her love Becomes second widow of her lover Fakeer.

                People have se and Nuleeni should do at bad thinks to goes to Fakeer. So we see that Nulleni’s eyes in Fakeer. She should do bad thinks. But at thing to deconstructed ideas of that Moral and ideal thinks. Which time goes that beautiful night in jungle? Fakeer and Nuleeni fear of that.  Society becomes killing to her lover. Both are gone to jungle and fear of that village people came here and kills them.    Derozio imagined beauty and nature   not in favors to Nuleeni.

Gulliver Travels

Gulliver's Travels, by Jonathan Swift begins with the protagonist, Gulliver as he sets out for an adventure. He is a surgeon from England who has a taste for adventure, and sets out to find and observe cultures. On his first voyage a storm knocks his lifeboat over and he is the only one to make it to shore. There he is held captive by the Lilliputian people who are only around six inches tall. Eventually Gulliver makes friends and agrees to help them in exchange for his freedom. He takes down the rival towns military and makes peace with them. The Lilliputian leader wants them killed and when Gulliver won’t do it he is accused of treason. Eventually the leader cools off and Gulliver is fine but eventually has to leave because he is going to be killed and he is taxing the small country too much with his eating habits.

                     He is home for five months before he leaves again. The next Island Gulliver ends up shipwrecked on is an island entirely occupied by Giants. He is taken by a farmer who ends up making him a sideshow for money until the queen of the giants comes and buys Gulliver for a lot of money. Gulliver has a mixed experience while staying in the castle. He is fed and cared for, but not seen as human and is constantly in danger. Gulliver also talks to the king about the politics from his homeland and the king just belittles him, saying how silly it all is. Eventually the box they keep him in is set adrift on accident and he is saved by a ship passing by.

                                        

                                                  The next Island Gulliver lands on is an island that floats, thanks to a giant magnet. The king of the island is from a race of people who are always caught up in their own thoughts, so much so that they need a servant to remind them to speak and listen. These people are caught up in learning and creating new sciences but never actually having a practical purpose, and most of the studies are actually contradicting themselves. Gulliver learns that the continent below the island is also ruled with an iron fist by the king who will block the sun and rain from a person who doesn’t pay. Gulliver becomes frustrated and bored and as soon as he is able, he leaves.