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  Hello Friends,  This blog is my response to the task assigned to us by our Prof. Dr. DilipSir in thinking activity on W. H. Auden's Poems. So read, understand and enjoy. Happy Learning!!! Q-1 Which lines of 'September 1, 1939' you liked the most? Why? Ans. The lines from the poem I liked the most are as follows: "And no one exists alone; Hunger allows no choice To the citizen or the police; We must love one another or die." The first line from above tells us that no one exits alone. We all need one another, we all are dependent on  each other. This tells us to live in harmony with others and it also highlights the importance of universal brotherhood. We need to help others whenever in need and in return we'll be helped when we need. It's not possible to live alone. So just like porcupines in order to protect themselves from cold, they stay close to one another even if their own pines hurt them but at least they'll be protected from cold and death. So...

  Hello Friends,  This blog is my response to the task assigned to us by our Prof. Dr. DilipSir on the poem "On being asked for a war poem" by W. B. Yeats. So read, understand and enjoy. Happy Learning! The above video is the explanation of the poem "On being asked for a war poem" by William Butler Yeats.  "On being asked for a War Poem" is a poem by William Butler Yeats written on February 6, 1915 in response to a request by Henry James that Yeats compose a political poem about World War I. Yeats changed the poem's title from "To a friend who has asked me to sign his manifesto to the neutral nations" to "A Reason for Keeping Silent" before sending it in a letter to James, which Yeats wrote at Coole Park on August 20, 1915. The poem was prefaced with a note stating: "It is the only thing I have written of the war or will write, so I hope it may not seem unfitting." The poem was first published in Edith Wharton's The Bo...

  Hello Friends,  This blog is my response to the task assigned to us by our Prof. Dr. DilipSir on the poems of W. B. Yeats. So read, understand and enjoy. Happy Learning! Here is the video recording of the poem The Second Coming and the explanation by our Prof. DilipSir. WB Yeats 'Things fall apart': the apocalyptic appeal of WB Yeats's The Second Coming Written 100 years ago, Yeats’s poem has been absorbed into the cultural bloodstream from Chinua Achebe to The Sopranos, Joan Didion to Gordon Gecko. Why is it such a touchstone in times of chaos? In April 1936, three years before his death, WB Yeats received a letter from the writer and activist Ethel Mannin. The 70-year-old Yeats was a Nobel prize-winning poet of immense stature and influence, not to mention Mannin’s former lover, and she asked him to join a campaign to free a German pacifist incarcerated by the Nazis. Yeats responded instead with a reading recommendation: “If you have my poems by you, look up a poem call...

  Hello Friends,  This blog is my response to the task assigned to us by our teacher VaidehiMa'am. So read, understand and enjoy. Happy Learning! Click here for Teacher's blog Q-1  Which song of Bob Dylan has made an impact on you? Why? Can you find a song similar to the same theme in other language? Ans. The song "Blowin' in the Wind" has made an impact on me. The songs tells us that sometimes life tests us more than enough. There're some questions whose answers we'll never know. We never know why do we have to bear so much pain and suffering at times, sometimes life tries us too much that it becomes very difficult for us to continue anymore. But there is some reason behind everything but the reasons we don't know or we may come to know after some point in life. Sometimes life tells us to be patient till the fruits ripe in our life but we're too impatient. Why life makes us wait, the reasons we never know. But the answers are there blowing in the ...

Hello Friends,  This blog is my response to the task assigned to us by our teacher VaidehiMa'am on Transcendentalism, so read, learn and enjoy. Happy Learning! Click here to view Teacher's blog Q-1 Transcendentalists talk about Individual’s relation with Nature. What is Nature? Share your views.  A-1 For me Nature is our natural surroundings like trees, birds, mountains, breeze, flowers, sky, Earth, etc. I like to   "LOOK AT THE FLOWERS". When I look at the flowers, I feel the presence of Nature, divine, the supreme power.  "If we could see the miracle of a single flower clearly our whole life would change." Buddha When we look at many flowers and plants, they give us a soothing effect upon us. They bring us calmness and gives us peace. Looking at the flowers eliminates our stress, helps to cure depression and brings us happiness. Birds flying, peacocks flying with its long feathers, white birds and colourful sky at dusk, All these are the beautiful aspects ...