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Bangle sellers take their load of bangles to the temple fair to sell them. The bangles are termed as “lustrous tokens of radiant lives” which mean that they are symbols of love in people’s lives. The bangles are made for happy daughters and wives. The poet says that some of the bangles are made for… Continue reading Bangle Sellers Poem Summary by Sarojini Naidu

Sarojini Naidu, the poet, freedom fighter and a patriot was also known by the sobriquet The Nightingale of India. She was a sensitive poet and wrote poetry based on the beauty of simple joys and sorrows of life. Her poetry included children’s poems, nature poems, poems on love and death etc. Sarojini Naidu is a… Continue reading Summary of Wandering Singers by Sarojini Naidu

“Prayer for Strength” is an inspirational poem by the versatile Rabindranath Tagore. The poem is in the form of a prayer, and the poet is asking the Lord to provide him with strength so that he can overcome all the hurdles in life. Prayer for Strength: Summary The poem begins with the poet asking Lord… Continue reading Prayer for Strength: Summary

“Speak Gently” by David Bates is a simple poem in which the poet asks his readers to speak in a gentle way. Each stanza of the poem tells us how and why we should speak gently with others.The first stanza tells us to rule over people by love and not by fear. Obedience of people… Continue reading Speak Gently Summary by David Bates

Thomas Campbell (1777-1844) is remarkable for his sentimental poetry. Most of his poems deal with common human problems. Poem in Brief: “Lord Ullin’s Daughter” is a ballad which tells the tragic story of the daughter of Lord Ullin and her lover who die a very sorrowful death when chased by her father and his men.… Continue reading Summary and Solved Questions of Lord Ullin’s Daughter by Thomas Campbell

Far reaching, obscure symbolic associations are rare in Synge and in Riders his imagination works within the realm of the life and culture of the Aran people. Spending his summers in the barren landscape of Aran imbibed in Synge the strong note of fatalism which enveloped the existence of the Araners. The consequent philosophy that… Continue reading Riders to the Sea Symbolism

“The poetry of exaltation will be always the highest: but when men lose their feelings for ordinary life and cannot write poetry of ordinary things, their exalted poetry is likely to lose its strength of exaltation in the way that men cease to build beautiful churches when they have lost happiness in building shops…”  So… Continue reading Riders to the Sea as a Poetic Drama

“The only possible beauty in drama is peasant drama” – so says Synge in his preface to The Playboy of the Western World. Synge was in a favor of a vital regionalism in literature and his commitment to the Irish dramatic revival was unmistakable. On the suggestion of W.B Yeats we went to the Aran… Continue reading Riders to the Sea Theme and Central Idea

Tragedy is remarkably economical in its exploitation of great visual archetypes – those stark icons which radiate behind the tragic action and illuminate the universal agony within the private grief. Of all such icons, the most poignant is perhaps, that of “Pieta” – the image of sorrowing Mary mourning her dead son – an icon… Continue reading Riders to the Sea Notes and Explanations

Synge’s Riders to the Sea has a unique place in dramatic history. The essence of its uniqueness lies in the creation of a true tragedy within its boundaries of a one act play. At first sight, the plot would seem too trivial and the characterization too faintly sketched to enable the playwright to build up… Continue reading Riders to the Sea Analysis and Summary