Concrete poetry (BA Text)

Concrete poetry:-

Concrete poetry is a recent term for an ancient poetic type, called pattern poems, that experiment with the visual shape in which a text is presented on the page. Some Greek poet's. Beginning in the third century BC, shape a text in the in form of the object that the poem describes or suggests. In the renaissance and the seventeenth century, a number of poets composed such partened forms, in which the lines vary in length in such a way that their printed shape outlines the subject of the poem; familiar examples in English are George Herbert's "Easter Wings" and "The Altar."

Prominent later experiments with pictorial or suggestive typography include stephane Mallarme's Un coup de des and Guillaume Apollinaire's calligrammes in the latter publication, for example, Apollinaire printed the poem "Il pleut" so that the component letters trickle down the page. 

The God of small things, chapter 14 - work is struggle (BA Text)

Arundhati Roy:-

Suzanna Arundhati Roy is an Indian author best known for her novel The God of Small Things, which won the Man Booker Prize for Fiction in 1997 and became the biggest-selling book by a non-expatriate Indian author. She is also a political activist involved in human rights and environmental causes.

Chapter 14 work is struggle:-

After Sophie watches him leave the house, chacko pays a visit to comrade pillai's house over the latter's doorway hangs a proclamation: "wirk is struggle. Struggle is work."comrade pillai is out, so chacko waits uncomfortable with the former's mother, his wife kalayani, son lenin, and niece Latha. Comrade pillai arrives. He insists on speaking to chacko in English. Chacko wants him to approve a new label for the factory's new product, synthetic cooking vinegar. They discuss velutha. Comrade pillai tells chacko that velutha will cause him trouble because he is a paravan. Chacko defends velutha.

Eventually, Paradise Pickles & Perserves folded. Comrade pillai was the last person to see velutha before "The last betrayal that sent across the river, swimming against the current, in the dark and rain, well in time for his blind date with history. "

Christabel (BA Poem)

S. T. Coleridge:-

S. T. Coleridge was the friend and contemporary of William Wordsworth in other words, Coleridge is a leading poet of the first generation of the romantic poet's. The poetry collection entitled lurical ballads published in 1798 was not on thr mile stone of the romantic movement of 19th century English literature but also known for the combined authorship of Coleridge and Wordsworth. Coleridge evolved the theory of imagination and differentiated fancy from imagination Coleridge's poetry takes us into the dreamy world of the unreal. I the poet projects the super natural and there by mystified his topics of poetry. Coleridge's poetry is a complex one and it is marked with subtlety. Unlike Wordsworth, Coleridge introduces flightsvof imagination, unfamiliar metaphors and imagines and the poet probes into the inner most of the character. 

About Poem:-

Christabel is a long narrative poem if Coleridge published in 1816. The publication covers up two parts but the poem remembers. 'Christabel ' could be identified as a story in verse. The very title suggests that it is a character based poem. Christabel, daughter of sir Leoline, I praying of night in the wood for her betrothed lover, finds a lady in distress, the fair Geraldine and brings her to the castle where she is hospitabily received. She claims to be the daughter of lord Roland de vaux who had onec been the friend of sir Leoline. But then two friends quarrelled and saperated long bake. 

La Bell Dame Sans Merci (BA Poem)

John Keats:-

John Keats was an English Romantic poet. He was one of the main figures of the second generation of Romantic poets, along with Lord Byron and Percy Bysshe Shelley, despite his works having been in publication for only four years before his death from tuberculosis at the age of 25. 

About Poem:-

The title of the poem 'La Bella Dame Sans Merci' by John Keats is given in the French language the English version of the samme is 'oh beautiful lady certainly thanls'. The present poem is written in the form of a dialogue between the two parties out of which one is an armed knight wandering all alone with a pale face in search of somebody. The other party questions the wandering knight about the reason of his restlessness. The questioner says that the grasslike plant has withered from the lake and no birds sing. The questioner asks while the knight looks very grief stricken. In response to the question asked, the knight tells that he met a beautiful lady who looked at him and the knight sat her man his horse. Both went ahead and the lady sang a fairy song. The lady found food for the knight and admitted her love fir him in a strange language. She them took the knight in her cave. Where she weft the knight shut her eyes and kissed them. The lady then made the knight sleep. In the cave. In the sleep the knight dreamt all the cold hill and visualised pale kings, princes and warriors. They were death - pale. The told the knight in the dream that the beautiful lady is in his custody. The knight saw the starved lios of these dead peaple and all of a sudden awake from the dream on the cold hill side. The knight concludes by saying that than onwards he wanders in search of the beautiful lady he had met long back. 

Two in the Campagna (BA Poem)

Robert browning:-

Being a scholar poet, browning includes the strangle and far fetched references in his poetry. His poem 'Two in the Campagna' examplities the above observation. In the title of the poem the word 'Campagna' refers to the low plain surrounding the city rome. In ancient time, this region was highly cultivated but malaria cused it to be deserted and in Browning's time it was mainly the waste land. The sad state of the land gave rise to the sad thoughts of love expressed in the poem.

About poem:-

Robert Browning's "Two in the Campagna" is a study in paradox. It's a love poem that deconstructs love, a pastoral that has seen not only death but bio-diversity. ... Elizabeth Barrett Browning, according to an early biographer, regarded the poem highly, and a sense of complicity is sustained.

This poem has been taken from Browning's famous work 'men and woman'. The poem could be identified as oneof the love poems of Browning. The word 'two' in the title refers to two lovers, the poet being one of the two. Both the lover's are sitting on the grass land in the morning in the month of may, and they think to move away from the place. The poet slips into philosophical thinking regarding their love. He tries to catch rhymes but them let them go. The poet tells about the spiders that throw turms of thread across their path the poet then tells about the tall hero fennel that branch out cleaving the brickwork. The poet continues to describe the disorder condition of land. And the surround Rome. The place campagna The poet talks about the five beetles gathered round one small orange cup groping for the honey meal. The poet talks about the dead Rome and then directly tells his love to be unashams of soul. The poet tells that it is not in their control to love and not to love. The poet expects thathis love should be entirely his own the poet tries to identify the fault between the two lovers. The poet talks about the union and the inter mingling of the two lovers. He tells about his love making with his love and then says that the good time are temporary. The life has two sides that is the poet says that the good times and bad times. After the loss of the good minutes, nothing remains but the pain of finite hearts that yearn for in finite passions. 

Remember Me (BA poem)

Christina Rossetti:-

Christina Rossetti belongs to pre-Raphael group of English poet's. Her poems register tender feelings of love and they are dominat by the romantic mood of the poet. The poems of Christina hold simple diction and they introduced dreamy world through graphic visual images.

About poem:-

'Remember me' is a significant poem of the poem. The poet addresses her love directly and tells him to remember her after her death. The poet says that only rememberance will be possible after death and it will be very late to counsel or pray after death. The poet also tells that her lover that he need not be sorry if he forgets her for a time being. And them again remembers her. The poet says that in past her ideas were currupted and she had been effected by the dark of ignorance, the poet says that if would have been better if her lover forgets, her sad phases of life rather than remember it and becoming sad. In a way, the poet admits i weakness of the past before her. The poem deals with one of the mental activities that is remembering. The poet expresses her lofty noble and not feeling of love for her lover. 

How do I love thee (BA poem)

Sonnet 

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Elizabeth Barrett Browning was the wife of Robert browning, the famous Victorian poet. During her life time, she was as famous her husband. She wrote a series of 44 poems expressing her love for her husband that is Robert Browning. these series of poems called 'sonnets from the Portuguese' because her husband nicknamed her his 'little Portuguese' on account of her dark complexion. The present poem is one of the sonnets addressed to her husband.

About poem:-

I love thee to the depth and breadth and height My soul can reach, when feeling out of
sight For the ends of being and ideal grace. I love thee to the level of every day's Most quiet need, by sun and candle-light. I love thee freely, as men strive for right. I love thee purely, as they turn from praise.

The title of the poem is made of a single phrase that the first line of the poem is a rhetorical is a question. The second sentence is in the from of the proposal. The poem begins with the wording of the title the poem tells about the ways in which the poetess loves her husband. She says that she loves him whole - heartedly, deeply and fully. She says that she loves him day and night. She further says that as man strives for their rights, she loves him freely she affirms that her her love is pure devoid of praise. She loves him passionately. The poetess says that she loves him in every walk of life and for all time. The poetess concludes by saying if God wishes she would love him better after death.