Death Be Not Proud Summary In John Donne’s “Death Be Not Proud”, the speaker questions the mightiness of Death. He argues with Death and tries to prove the powerlessness of Death. At first, he compares Death with rest and sleep that induce pleasure in men and later he says death is nothing but a slave…
Summary The speaker in The Sun Rising is in bed with his beloved. It is dawn, but he does not seem bothered about it. Having seen the sun at the window, he gets angry and admonishes the sun to leave their room. Instead of waking them up, he commands the sun to wake the schoolboys, apprentices, huntsmen, and…
Rabindranath Tagore’s “Chitto jetha bhoyshunyo” or “Where The Mind is Without Fear” is a Bengali poem that was first published in the poetry volume ‘Naibedya’ (1901). Later, Tagore translated it into English and it appeared as poem 35 in his poetry collection Gitanjali or Song Offerings in 1912. Background During the time of the composition of the poem,…
Shakuntala Summary Shakuntala by Kalidasa is primarily about the love story of Shakuntala and King Dushyanta and their reunion. One day, King Dushyanta goes to the forest to hunt. He is in pursuit of a blackbuck, and after a long chase, he enters the vicinity of the hermitage of Kanva. An ascetic stops him from hunting…
“The Free Radio” is a story that appeared in the anthology of short stories East, West in 1994. Salman Rushdie, the writer of the short story, tells the story of Ramani through the eyes of a retired schoolteacher, the narrator. The Free Radio Summary “The Free Radio” is the story of Ramani, a rickshaw driver who falls in…