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Sahitya Akademi Award–winning litterateurs are the ones who always promise wonderful food for thought through their works. Born in Thrissur, Kerala, to a family of artists, Kamala Das is one such amazing 1985-recipient of the award. Her pool of meaningful evocative writing, comprising poetry, short stories, novels, and autobiographies, not only strengthened Indian Writing in… Continue reading Summary and Analysis of My Mother at Sixty Six by Kamala Das: 2022
About the Poet– Kamala Das (also known as Kamala Suraiyya after her conversion to Islam in 1999) was on born 31st March 1934 in Thrissur, Kerala. She spent most of her childhood in Calcutta in a family of artists, where she felt ignored and unloved. In her teenage she married an older relative, and the emotional and… Continue reading Line by Line Meaning of My Mother at Sixty Six
Stephen Spender (1909-1995) is an English poet and essayist who took active part in politics. “An Elementary School Classroom in a Slum” by Stephen Spender pictures a classroom in a slum highlighting subtlety the plight of the children and the themes of social injustice and inequalities. The poet uses vivid images and appropriate expression to… Continue reading Summary and Analysis of An Elementary School Classroom in a Slum by Stephen Spender
“Endymion”, in many ways signifies a romantic culmination of Keats’s firm belief in the immutability of beauty, and of its claim to a legitimacy vis-à-vis its permanence, and its ability to conjure, or “contextualize” the truth. The poet’s aesthetic view of beauty as an intransient source of pleasure and joy comes in the face of… Continue reading A Thing of Beauty is a Joy Forever Summary and Analysis
