Beaming Notes
Your Guide to Literature
Have you ever tried to remember just that exact thing at the exact moment and have failed miserably, and often, to your embarrassment? Has your poor retention ever hurt you during that important moment in an exam or during an argument? But it wasn’t always this way, was it? Don’t worry….You’re not alone! A huge… Continue reading How to Improve Memory Retention
About the author – Nissim Ezekiel comments “Daruwallah has the energy of the lion”. He is the president of The Poetry Society of India, and is presently based in Delhi. He was born in 1937 in Punjab and has an M.A. degree in English Literature. He was an IPS officer of a very high rank… Continue reading Analysis of Gulzaman’s Son.
About the author – Born in 1856 in a well known westernized family, Dutt had the advantages of education and happy family which proved to be crucial to her development as an artist. Accredited with collection of poems like A Sheaf Gleaned in French Fields (1875), and Ancient Ballads and Legends of Hindustan (1882), she could… Continue reading Analysis of Our Casuraina Tree
About the poet –Poet, playwright, novelist, traveller James Falconer Kirkup (23 April 1918 – 10 May 2009) started his poetic career with short verses, haikus and tankas, went to become a prolific writer in the English literature. He became a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature in 1962. Though less canonised in the British… Continue reading Summary and Analysis of No Men are Foreign by James Kirkup
Henry Louis Vivian Derozio (18 April 1809 – 26 December 1831), poet, radical thinker, educator, social reformist, founder of the Young Bengal group, was born in India, Kolkata, to Portuguese parents. Known to write brilliant sonnets, he was a renowned scholar in many disciplines, including languages. He regarded himself as an Indian, and this poem… Continue reading To India – My Native Land: Summary and Analysis
Every work of art that a writer creates or writes actually carries some germ of the writer’s life. Thereby any attempt to say something about a poem or any piece of literature is actually an attempt to say something about one’s own self. Kamala Das, in her autobiography My Story asserts that “. . .… Continue reading An Introduction: Autobiographical Elements
In her celebrated essay, Can the Subaltern Speak? Gayatri Chakraborty Spivak points out the ability and inability of the subalterns to speak about their issues in their voices. Kamala Das’s poem is also the voice of the subaltern. Here the subaltern are the women, especially Indian women. Kamala Das becomes a spokesperson (well almost) for… Continue reading Introduction by Kamala Das Analysis
Articles are a bit confusing. There is much more to discuss about articles than what we had learned in our childhood. This following exercise on ‘articles’ is crucial for concepts and recapitulation. I have also prepared a quiz that will help you track your knowledge on articles. If you’re confident with ‘articles’ take the quiz… Continue reading Grammar Exercise on Articles: A Date with ‘a’, ‘an’ and ‘the’
Analysis of A Fairly Sad Tale A Fairly Sad Tale is a poem by Dorothy Parker which deals with the feelings of a heartbroken woman who is unable to find true love in her life. Summary The poem opens with the poetess exclaiming she can never understand why she is like how she is. She… Continue reading A Fairly Sad Tale Analysis by Dorothy Parker
A Certain Lady is a poem written by Dorothy Parker about the multitude of emotions that a woman goes through while she listens to the man she loves talks about his exploits with other women. Summary of A Certain Lady by Dorothy Parker The poem opens with the speaker (i.e. the poetess) talking about how… Continue reading A Certain Lady Analysis by Dorothy Parker
