Minkal Italiya

"The Nightingale and Rose" “Nightingale and Rose” is a famous short tragic fantasy story written by Irish playwright and poet, a very popular literary figure in Victorian England, Oscar Wilde who was also a spokesman of the 19 th century Aesthetic movement in England, which advocated art for art’s sake. He was known for his acclaimed works including ‘The Pictures of Dorian Gray’ and ‘The importance of Being Earnest”. Besides these factors he also remains in talk of town because of his brilliant wit, flamboyant style of writing as well as imprisonment of homosexuality. The short story is about a undying and altruistic love, in a typical Wilde style, the narrative deals with irony, sarcasm, paradox and surprise as well. “She said that she would dance with me if I brought her red roses’, cried the young Students; ‘but in all my garden there is no red rose.’ The story begins with boy’s quest for red rose, the girl demands him to bring red rose then and ...

"Ghashiram Kotwal" “Ghashiram Kotwal” is a Marathi play written by one of the most well known Indian dramatists of 2oth Century, Vijay Tendulkar. He is known for his Marathi writing which deals with various issues related to contemporary social,political, economical and cultural life in Maharshtra. In the “Ghashiram Kotwal” he also used historical reference, and used in such a way that it become a universal in the play. The play was written in 1972 as a response to the rise of a local political party, Shiv Sena in Maharashtra. The theme highlights contemporary scenario through the character of Ghashiram Halwai, his journey shows how a men in power give rise to ideologies to serve their purposes and later on destroy them when they are not needed more or become useless. Tragedy of corruption and power The plot spins around Ghashiram Savalda, a North-Indian Brahmin from Kanuj and Nana Phadanvis, chief minister of Peshwas in Maharashtra. The play is divided in t...

“The Old Woman” As a white candle In a holy place, So is the beauty Of an aged face. As the spent radiance Of the winter sun, So is a woman With her travail done. Her brood gone from her, And her thoughts as still As the waters Under a ruined mill. From the ages, we observe that everyone praises the beauty of young women in every possible way but only few are there who praises the beauty of old woman. Though it is a very short, significant lyrical poem is written by an American author , mythologist and lecturer Joseph Campbell. The poet in a very realistic way compared the old woman with naturalistic elements in order to bring out beauty in her agedness. “The poem shows blessings and beauties of an old age lady by using figure of speech, metaphorically she was compared with white candle and with the spent radience of winter sun”. In the very first stanza of poem, the poet compares the beauty of old lady with a white candle in holy place. How meaningf...

“The Daffodils” The most famous poem in English language “Daffodils” also known by title   “I wandered Lonely as a Cloud” is a lyric poem written by Romantic poet Laureate William Wordsworth, who along with Samuel Taylor Coleridge, helped to launch the Romantic Age in English literature with their joint publication Lyrical Ballad. In this collaborative work poetry was defined in new light which is quite different than poetic style and structure of eighteenth century. Along with the beginning of romantic era, nature was thought to be a proper subject matter for poetry as well as the much emphasis was put on use of simple language, imagination, originality and poetic freedom. In contrast to the exaggerate language of poetry in earlier time, simplicity of language became a landmark in poetry which enables everyone to understand the meaning of it.   Though the many poems written during that period by John Keats, P.B.Shelley, Coleridge and so on, Worswroth’s Daffodis can ...