A Talk On Advertising by Herman Wouk A Brief Introduction to the Author Herman Wouk, an American novelist, was born in New York in 1915. Of his novels, The Caine Muting and Aurora Dawn have been acclaimed the world over. Point Summary In ‘A Talk on Advertising’, Wouk suggests that…
Hawk Roosting by Ted Hughes Ted Hughes (193O-1998) served as the British Poet Laureate from 1984 until his death, for which he was awarded the Order of Merit by Queen Elizabeth II. Born in West Yorkshire, he studied at Pembroke College, Cambridge, and then spent much of his time in…
An Introduction by Kamala Das Introduction This poem first appeared in Kamala Das’s very first volume of poem which was entitled Summer in Calcutta and which was published in 1965. This poem is wholly autobiographical and may also be labelled as a confessional poem. It is confessional in the sense…
A Poor Woman Learns To Write by Margaret Atwood GENRE: POETRY TITLE: THE POOR WOMAN LEARNS TO WRITE AUTHOR: MARGARET ATWOOD Introduction: The poem “The Poor Woman Learns to Write” is a simple and conversational poem written by Margaret Atwood. Margaret Atwood, in her novels and poetry, often explored themes…
The End of Imagination By Arundhati Roy A Brief Introduction to the Author Arundhati Roy’s first – and so far only novel – The God of Small Things, made her famous overnight. She was awarded the prestigious Booker Prize for it. Besides being a writer she is also well known…
The poem is addressed to the month April. The speaker in the poem makes a request to the month to rock him with its music. By the touch of the breeze, he gets thrilled. The breeze awakens him from his sleep. The mood of the breeze is fantastic. But the same time it courts and teases him.
The poem "Songs of Radha: The Quest" is a divine love song which presents the Indian faith that God lives within one's own self. It also describes the passionate and frantic love of the beloved for the divine lover whom she is searching hastily and restlessly all the time. Suddenly, she comes to realize, that he lives within her own heart and it is foolish to search for him outside.
The Star Ducks by Bill Brown About The Author Bill Brown was born in 1910 in Oregon, USA. He worked as a journalist, park ranger and teacher of creative writing. As a young man in 1930s, he made a voyage in a thirty-two feet schooner to the South Seas and…
No Man Is An Island By John Donne (1624) BACKGROUND INFORMATION John Donne (1572-1631) was an English poet whose time spent as a cleric in the Church of England often influenced the subjects of his poetry. In 1623, Donne suffered a nearly fatal illness, which inspired him to write a…
When I Consider How my Light is Spent ( On His Blindness) About the Poet John Milton (1608-1674), one of the greatest authors of the English language, is best known for his epic poem Paradise Lost (1667). Milton was born in London , England. His father , John Milton, the…
Lochinvar by Walter Scott About the Poet and the Poem Sir Walter Scott (1771-1832), Scottish writer and poet and one of the greatest historical novelists, was born on August 15, 1771, in Edinburgh as the son of a solicitor Walter Scott and Anne, a daughter of professor of medicine. An…
