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" The Sense of an Ending" "The Sense of an Ending" is a 2011 novel written by an English writer Julian Patrick Barnes, widely known as Julian Barners.  This blog is response to the questions asked by professor, Click Here to know more about it... 1)  "History is that certainty produced at the point where the imperfections of memory meet the inadequacies of documentation." How far can you agree with this definition of Adrian? Justify you answer with reference to your reading of ‘The Sense of an Ending’. "History is that certainty produced at the point where the imperfections of memory meet the inadequacies of documentation.” This is a famous quote from Lagrange which Adrian referred to in Old Joe Hunt’s class. In Julian Barne’s “The Sense of an Ending” history, memory and responsibility stay at the centre of the novel these also contribute in bringing clarity into Adrian’s death as well. To the greater extend I can be a...

“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 ...

Welcome Readers! This blog is a part of thinking activity assisgened in classroom Click Here to know more about it..                                "The White Tiger" "The White Tiger"   is a debut novel written by Indian author Arvind Adiga ,  was published in 2008 and won the 40 th Man Booker Prize in the same year as well. This ground breaking Epistolary novel moves further with the binary narrative of Indian society in a letter from having seven chapters, which is a hard hitting on the naked reality of India, striking in different cultures and compromises two faces, brighter and darker side of India in a term of exploitation of various sections in rising India through the character of Balram Halwai- a modern Indian hero. His views on rich and poor India get more crystal clear when Arvind Adiga quotes, “The dreams of the rich, and the dreams of the poor-...

To enrich ones knowledge by reading or knowing is such an interesting idea, as a part of Sunday reading this task was given to us. CLICK HERE to know more about it. Know the Author: Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie  Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, a Nigerian novelist has been known for her short stories and nonfiction as well she is considered as an excellent speaker. Her widely known novels are as listed below. Purple Hibiscus(2003) Half of Yellow Sun (2006) Americanah (2013) Along with it she is known for her short story collection  "The Thing Around Your Neck" (2009) and her book length essay "We Should All Be Feminists" (2014). Because of being so realistic in her work she has been awarded the 2018 PEN Pinter Prize. According to Harold Pinter's Noble speech, The PEN Pinter Prize annual award is given to a writer for showing a "fierce intellectual determination...to define the real truth of our lives and societies". ...