The Ant and the Cricket is a fable in poetic form. Here we have listed the common NCERT solutions for this poem and some long type solved questions which can give you a comprehensive grasp of the poem The Ant and the Cricket. Also, do check out Beamingnotes for more NCERT solutions. Solved Short Questions… Continue reading The Ant and the Cricket NCERT Solutions- Solved Questions: 2022
“The Last Bargain” by Tagore is a sixteen lines poem composed in blank verse conveying a strong message well needed for the materialistic world that no power, money or lust can make us happy. Simplicity and innocence are the most supreme of all. The Last Bargain solved question answers are shared below. Solved Short Questions… Continue reading The Last Bargain Question Answers and NCERT Solutions: 2022
Jane Austen is counted among the earliest exponents of the genre of novel because this form of literature had taken birth only about a century before she started writing and achieved its zenith in the next century to her, in the Victorian Age. More over being a woman, it was rather more difficult to carry… Continue reading Top 10 Quotes by Jane Austen: 2022
The poem was published posthumously in the anthology Winter Trees in 1971. However, according to Ted Hughes this particular poem was meant to be published in the anthology Ariel. After all it was dated by Plath as 29th October 1962. As with other poems this one too celebrates the many layers of meanings present in… Continue reading Analysis of “Purdah” by Sylvia Plath: 2022
In this intensely self-dramatizing poem, she wrote shortly before her own suicide in February 1963, Plath adopted highly strained metaphors to describe her psychic state. “Lady Lazarus,” written in the fall of 1962, begins with a comparison between the poem’s speaker and the Jews tortured and killed in World War II: A sort of walking… Continue reading Analysis of ‘Lady Lazarus ‘ by Sylvia Plath: 2022
Daddy was written on October 12, 1962, shortly before her death, and published posthumously in Ariel in 1965. Though most of Plath’s poetry centres around her loss of her father and her relationship with him, this poem perhaps is the most explicit. When we deal with Plath we often involve ourselves with the psychological aspects of… Continue reading Analysis of ‘Daddy’ by Sylvia Plath: 2022
The poem Two Sisters of Persephone was written by Slyvia Plath in 1956, the same year as her marriage. The poem is about two lives that are binary to each other. The title, overloaded with mythological significance at once, takes the reader’s attention away. However, the poem is an allegory that discusses the life of… Continue reading Analysis of Two Sisters of Persephone by Sylvia Plath: 2022
The poem The Disquieting Muses written in 1957 serves as a good example of alienation. The poem depicts a non-communicative mother-daughter relationship. Plath wrote this poem getting highly inspired by Giorgio de Chirico eponymous painting. The poem has deep resemblance to the picture and the three Muses of Chirico’s painting are depicted by Plath in… Continue reading The Disquieting Muses Analysis by Sylvia Plath: 2022
The poem was written on October 27, 1962, shortly before her death. It was published posthumously in the eponymous collection in 1965. The title is perhaps based on the horse which Plath used for her morning riding. It has been understood after the testimony of Ted Hughes, as a reaction to her falling off and… Continue reading “Ariel” Summary and Analysis by Sylvia Plath: 2022
The poem was first published in the anthology with the namesake in 1960. It contained another forty four poems. The title makes us remember the famous lines from Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar, “ . . . why , man, he doth bestride this narrow world/ like a colossus.” (I, ii, 135-36.) The reference could be made… Continue reading “Colossus” Summary and Analysis by Sylvia Plath: 2022
