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Wednesday, 31 January 2018

The Tell Tall Heart by Edger Elan Poe.

The Tell Tall Heart 
Edger Allan Poe.
Introduction about the auther:


            Edgar Allan Poe ( born Edgar Poe; January 19, 1809 – October 7, 1849) was an American writer, editor, and literary critic. Poe is best known for his poetry and short stories, particularly his tales of mystery and the macabre. He is widely regarded as a central figure of Romanticism in the United States and American literature as a whole, and he was one of the country's earliest practitioners of the short story. Poe is generally considered the inventor of the detective fiction genre and is further credited with contributing to the emerging genre of science fiction. He was the first well-known American writer to try to earn a living through writing alone, resulting in a financially difficult life and career.

Summery of this short story:


               A nameless person explains that he is and was extremely nervous, but is not and was not insane. Rather, the narrator has a "disease" which makes all his senses, especially his hearing, very sensitive. To prove that he isn't insane, the narrator shares an event from his past. Let's jump into his tale:The narrator has an idea that he can't shake. He loves the old man and has nothing against him. Except…his horrible eye, which is "pale blue with a film over it" . The narrator hates the eye and decides to kill the old man to be free of it.

             To that end, the narrator goes to the old man's room every night at 12am, for seven days. Each night the narrator opens the man's door and puts in a lantern (the kind they don't make anymore, with panels that can be adjusted to release more or less light). After the lantern, the narrator puts his head through the doorway, extremely slowly, and then opens the lantern so a tiny beam of light shines on the old man's eye. Each night the old man doesn't open his eye, so the narrator feels that he can't kill him.

             On the eighth night, the old man hears the narrator at the door and wakes up. The narrator hangs out there in the dark for a long time, then, with a scream, plunges into the totally dark room, opening the lantern, and shining light on the old man's eye. The narrator drags the old man, who has only screamed once, off the bed, and then pulls the bed on top of the man. When the narrator hears the man's heart stop beating, he removes the bed and checks to make sure the old man is really dead, which he is. So the narrator cuts him up and hides his remains under the floor.Then three policemen come. A neighbor had heard a scream and called them. The narrator says he screamed while sleeping, and claims that the old man is out of town. After convincing the cops nothing bad is going down, the narrator brings them into the old man's bedroom, and they all sit down to chat. While they are all shooting the breeze, the narrator starts hearing a terrible ticking noise, which gets louder and louder until the narrator freaks out, confesses, and points the police to the old man's body, stating that the sound is coming from the old man's heart.

I have taken summery from this site.https://www.shmoop.com/tell-tale-heart/summary.html

Tuesday, 30 January 2018

Mending Wall by Robert Frost.

Mending Wall 
by Robert Frost.

                  
               " Mending Wall" is a philosophical poem of Robert frost in which he comments on the secretive attitude being of present time has became a castle. He does not want to come out of that secretive attitude and he would not allow any other person to know about it this secretive attitude of modern man is brought to light in the present poem.

               The subject matter of the poem is repair at the wall between the house of a poet and his neighbor . the poet is not in taller of having a wall between his house and the neighbors house. But his neighbor is instating on having a wall the poet finds present of some unseen force and element which does not like the war that is the reason why the wall is having gapes and creches in it. The implied meaning is that God does not want in man shoud remain aware and alop from the other man. But he neighbor of the poet is of different opinion, he believes that their must be a war because "Good fences make good neighbors". The neighbors prefers to repair that wall again and again because he would like to keep distance from the poet. the poet himself with an or chard of apple and his neighbors with the forest of pine trees it suggests that the nature of the poet is different from that of neighbor. His neighbor puts stone on the wall and arranges those stone with a good balanced so that those stone may not like it because he dose not want any wall between his house and his neighbors house.

                 The present poem is a sarcastic remark on human relation in modern times. the attitude of modern man has became so strange and secretive that he does not want so share any matter or object of his own with other. he would like to keep a wall around him and such a war that their may not be any iteration between him and others. this attitude of modern man is highlighting in the present poem. 


The white tiger by Arvind adiga.

The White tiger.




Arvind adiga was won the Man Booker Prize for his debut novel The White Tiger in the year 2008.The white tiger is a tale of two India's. This novel takes the form of a series of letters written late at night by Balram Halwai to Wen jiabao, the premier of the state council of the people's republic of china, on the eve of his visit to India.In the letters, Balram describes his rise from lowly origins to his current position as an entrepreneur in Bangalore, as well as his views on India's cast system and its political corruption.

This blog is part of academic activity given by Prof. Dilip Barad that you can see this click here.


1)How far do you agree with the India represented in the novel The White Tiger?
                       This novel "The white Tiger" has traversed the class struggle in India at a time of modernization and globalization.This novel has shown an India that has not only lost its wonted social structure but has also outgrown a conventional moral framework. Balram description of the light India versus the dark India in the novel. Light India is no longer virtues in this novel. There are "Light" essentially in the sense that they can actually see the light of wealth and affluence. Meanwhile, rooster coop logic is prevalent in dark India. 

2)Do you believe that Balram's story is the archetype of all stories of 'rags to riches'?

                 Yes I believe that Balram story is the archetype of all stories of rags to riches.Because Balram was share his own story of entrepreneurial success, and he ask how big can you think? Balram was also one poor rickshaw driver son and he also gives example of rooster coop perpetual servitude, he believe that some wasn't any hard work for them. the rooster coop and God Hanuman these are the things that he doesn't like whereas he wants to be like Buddha, imagine himself as Krishna.

3)"Language bears within itself the necessity of its own critique, deconstructive criticism aims to show that any text inevitably undermines its own claims to have a determinate meaning, and licences the reader to produce his own meanings out of it by an activity of semantic 'freeplay' (Derrida, 1978, in Lodge, 1988, p. 108). Is it possible to do deconstructive reading of The White Tiger?

                   Deconstructive reading in this text we  can see that  Balram  Halwai character that it is the autobiography of 'half backed Indian'. In this novel adiga was present reality of India. And text itself gives hint to deconstruct the text and use of language itself the deconstruct the text.

4)Is it possible to read The White Tiger in context of Globalisation?
       
            In this text The White tiger, there is we look American atmosphere in India,when Balram is describing Ashok's corruption that he tells " You have got plenty of places to drink beer, dance, pick up girls, that sort of thing. A small bit of America in India."Balram plans to keep up with the pace of globalization and change his trade when need be."I am always a man who sees 'Tomorrow' when other sees 'Today". and Balram sees Ashock being transformed by the influence of American culture, the creeping globalization that is taking over Delhi.


           

Friday, 26 January 2018

Robinson Crusoe

Robinson Crusoe movie review.
This blog is of my part of classroom activity,here my view this Robinson crusoe movie.
Here is the link of movie.If you are interested watching this movie then click here.





















1)yes,I notice cannibalism in this film Robinson Crusoe. And cannibalism signifying this film unsocialism and uncivilized people ,and cannibal was didn't know about society,rules and regulation .they always enjoy his ceremony in this film they kill any cannibal and eating some spices .that signify cannibalism in this film.
2)yes,we can find colonialism in this film Robinson Crusoe . in this film i see black and white people the character about Robinson and Friday ,and that also they relationship tells us colonialism.,i notice 
3)yes,i notice master and slave relationship between Robinson and Friday in this film .Friday was slave,and first of all he teach the word Friday and he calls Robinson the word of "Master" .that was his characterization also find that his relationship between master and slave in film.

Hamlet Movie review



Hamlet movie review.
This blog is of my part of classroom activity,here my view this Hamlet movie.
Here is the link of movie.If you are interested watching this movie then click here.

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1)  Yes Hamlet movie totally faithful to the original play,this movie directed by canneth breneth was wonderfully cover up every thing in the real play.some thing  are not faithful  in the play.

2)Yes,after watching movie my presentation about the play .while reading play the different kind of situation and scene of the play ,and after watching movie we come to know about the dialogue deliver and his expression to given proper meaning.


3)yes I feel aesthetic delight in this play.when  come ghost was a king hamlet and prince hamlet both of conversation words,and after conversation hamlet behavior  to his uncle and his uncle silence .I feel that was hamlet aesthetic delight.


4)Yes, I feel catharsis after watching movie .We see pity,fear,sympathy in this movie hamlet madness,and his father death, and his mother hastily marriage to is uncle ,hamlet meet ghost ,and his father tell him he took revenge to cloudious. That time I feel catharsis.


5)Yes screening  of movie better understanding of the play. Because movie  was colorful and his plot, structure ,characterization,knowing many thing better understanding of the play.


6)Yes one scene in the movie I will cherish lifetime that was Ophelia madness after his father death.


7)This movie was very wonderfully directed by canneth breneth .my point of view no need to any change.


8)I read in the end of the scene The king hamlet statue broken and fell  down to the dust .It symbolized time to change, good to evil .And i can say that not king hamlet statue fell down but Denmark kingdom was fell down.


9)We can observe many approaches in one and other way.But i found psychological approach more applicable for the play because hamlet fight with own self because he know how to murder his father,and feminist approach was applicable in the play,with the two female character.


10)In above small line i mention "feminist approach". In this play the two character are Gertrude and Ophelia both are victim of mail dominated society.specially Ophelia was lot of suffering in victim society.

Doctor Faustus

Doctor Faustus movie review.

Doctor Faustus movie review.
This blog is of my part of classroom activity,here my view of this movie Doctor Faustus.
Here is the link of movie.If you are interested watching this movie then click here.









1) Doctor Faustus in this play end of the scene the image of Lucifer wide wings signify that he was a devil and angel
 he against  god .And he saw his own power of supiriality and wide wings he show that he was more powerfull in the world .
2)God presant in this play as a good angel and fastus was agains the god that was his work are against the god that reason end was tragic and the good and .god charecter was symbolaised  Old man .and he was a choras some time we find in god in the form of good angel.old man first monologue he chalenges god.
3)In this image the myth of icarus daedalus was son and father . in this image complex was hight and fire then that was we are went to the highest way all are fell down in earth ,and fire was sun melting the man went to the highest way.

Stopping by wood on a snowy evening

Stopping by wood on a snowy evening
By: Robert Frost

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                                                                                                  Analysis of  this poem:                                                                                                                                                                                    Stopping by woods on a snowy evening is one of the most celebrated poems of Robert Frost. The first prime minister of independent India pundit Jawaharlal Nehru was so much impressed with the message of this poem that he always kept this poem on the table beneath the glass. The poem is simple but the message which it conveys the significant the poem is about poets going to the forest, getting tempted to stay there and finally realizing that he has many works to be done by him and so he cannot stop in the forest it is a poem about the internal dilemma of the poem between love for beauty and sense of duty this kind of dilemma is witnessed by every person at some stage in life. We all are some stage in life. We all are sometimes tempted by beauty of nature to stop there for a long time but the work which is to be done by us. Reminds us for our duty and we do not stop for a long time where that beautiful place is this truth of life convey by the poet though present poem.


                 The subject matter of the poem is simple the poet goes to a dark deep lovely forest. On his horse back it is such a beautiful place that the poet is tempted to stop there and past that night in the forest but the horse of the poet shakes its heard to ring the balls which are tide to its harness. The horse wants to ask poet whether he is mistaken in making a stay in that forest the reason is it is the darkness evening the lack is trozen and the snow fall is there, such a gesture of his horse reminds the poet that the words are lovely dark and deep but he has so many promises to keep. He has to perform many duties before he sleeps in the forest and before he die the final message of the poem is that sense of beauty in light is more important than tempting beauty. No tempting beauty should ever prove to be a hindrance on the path of duty. 

Wednesday, 24 January 2018

Gulliver Travels

Gulliver Travel
By Jonathan swift
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 Introduction:
         “Gulliver Travel” this novel wrote about “Johnathan Swift” ,he was born in 1667 city of Dublin .Swift is one of the best satirist ,he had a very dominant personality and as a resalt the satire quality of his life was an out come of the personal tragedy. He receive in M.A oxford university in 1692.His satiric novel “The battle of the book”.In 1702,swift was given the degree of Doctor of divinity from Trinity college,Dublin . The “Stella”of his famous journey to Stella. Swift published “A tale of tub”,and in 1726 he published “Gulliver travel”.A Book that was reprinted three times in the year of its publication ,with dutch ,french and German translation appearing within a year.In 1731 he was wrote his own obituary verses on the death of Dr swift.He died in 1745 on Gulliver's travel at Wikisource.

Gulliver’s four voyages summery:

 First voyage to “Lilliput”:




               Mural depicting Gulliver surrounded by citizens of Lilliput.The book begins with a short preamble in which “Lemuel Gulliver” in the literary style of the time,gives a brief out line of his life and history before his voyages.

          During his first voyage,Gulliver is wached a shore after a shipwreck and find himself a prisoner of a race of tiny people,less than 6 inches(15 cm) tall, whore inhabitants of the island country of Lilliput .After giving assurances of his good behavior ,he is given a residence in Lilliput and becomes a favorite of the court.From there the book follows Gulliver’s observations on the court of Lilliput. He is also given permission to go around the city on condition that he must not harm their subjects.Gulliver assists the Lilliputians to subdue their neighbors,the blefuscudiansby stealing their fleet.However,he refuses to reduce the island nation of blefuscu to a province of Lilliput ,displeasing the king and the court.Gulliver is charged with treason for,among other crimes,”Making water”in the capital, though he was putting out a fire and saving countenanced to be blinded,but with the assistance of king friend,he escapes to blefuscu. Here he spots and retrieves to be rescued by a passing ship which safely takes him back home.





 Second voyage to Brobdingnag:
           Gulliver exhibited to the Brobdingnag  farmer.Being restless he soon sets out again.When the sailing ship adventure is blow off course by storms and forced to sail for land in  search of fresh water,Gulliver is abandoned by his companions and found by a farmer who is 72 feet (22m) tall:the scale of Brobdingnag is about 12:1 ,compared to Lilliput's 1:12 ,judging from Gulliver estimating a man’s step being 10 year (gm) .He brings Gulliver home and his daughter,Glumdalclitch,care for Gulliver.The farmer treats him as a curiosity and exhibits him for money.After a while  the constant show make Lemuel sick,and the farmer sell him to the queen of the realm.The farmer’s daughter (who accompanied her father’s while exhibiting  Gulliver) is taken in to the queen’s service to take care of the tiny man. Since Gulliver is too small to use their huge chairs, beds knives and forkas , the queen commissions a small house to be built for him so that he can be carried around in it , this is referred to as his “travelling box”. Between small adventures  such as fighting giant was PS and being carried to the roof by a monkey, he discusses the state of Europe with the king. The king is not happy with Gulliver’s accounts of Europe, especially upon learning of the use of guns and cannons . on a trip to the seaside, his travelling box is seized by a giant eagle which drops Gulliver and his box in to the sea, where he is picked  up by some sailors, who return him to England.


  Third voyage to laputa:

      Gulliver discovery laputa ,the flying island.
         Setting out again Gulliver’s ship is attacked by pirates and he is marooned close to a desolate rocky island near India. He is rescued by the flying island of laputa a kingdom devoted to the arts of music,mathematics and astronomy but unable to use them for practical ends.
         Laputa’s custom of throwing rocks down at rebellious cities on the ground prefigures air strikes as a method of war far.Gulliver tours Balnibarbi,kingdom ruled from laputa,as the guest of a low ranking courtier and sees the ruin brought about by the blind pursuit of science without practical result,in a satire on bureaucracy and on the royal society and its experiments.At the ground academy of lagado,great resources and man power are employed on researching completely preposterous schemes such extracting sunbeams from cucumbers,softening marble for use in pillows,learning how to mix paint by smell,and uncovering political conspiracies by examining the excrement of suspicious persons.
          Gulliver is then taken to maldonada,the main port to await a trader who can take him on to japan.While waiting for a passage ,Gulliver takes a short side trip to the island of Glubbdubdrib.Where he visite a magician’s dwelling and discuses history with the ghosts of historical figure,the most obvious restatement of the “Ancients versus moderns”them in the book.In Luggnagg he encounters the strudbrugs,people who are immoral. They do not have the gift of eternal youth,but supper the infirmities of old age and are considered legally dead at the age of eighty .After reaching japan ,Gulliver asks the emperor “to excuse my performing the ceremony imposed upon the crucifix”, which the emperordoes Gulliver returns home,determined to stay there for the rest of his days.

 Forth voyage to the country of the Houyhnhnm:

                Despite his earlier intention of remaining at home, Gulliver returns to see as the captain of a merchantman,as he is bored with his employment as a surgeon .On this voyage he is forced to find new addition to his crew whom he believes to have turned the rest of crew against him.His crew then commits mutiny,and after keeping him contained for some time resolve to leave him on the first piece of land ,they come across and continue as pirates .He is abandoned in a landing boat and comes upon a race of hideous,deformed and savage humanoid creatures to which he conceives a violent antipathy,shortly after wards he meets the Houyhnhnm, a race of taking horses.They are the ruler,while the deformed creatures called yahoos are human being in their base from.
         Gulliver becomes a member of a horse’s household ,and comes to both admire and emulate the Houyhnhnm and their life style ,rejecting his fellow humans as merely Yahoos endowed with some semblance of reason which ,they only use to exacerbate ans add to the vices nature gave them.However,an assembly of the Houyhnhnm rules that Gulliver,a yahoo with some sembalance of reason,is a danger to their civilisation and expels him.He is them rescued ,against his will by a portuguese ship and is disgusted to see that captain pedro de mendez a yahhoo is a wise ,courteous and generous person. He return to his recomcile him self to living among “Yahoos” and becomes a recluse,remaining in his house ,largely avoiding his family and his wife and spending several house a day speaking with the horses in his stables,in effect becoming insance.


Kim
Rudyard Kipling
Introduction:

Rudyard Kipling was born on December 30, 1865, in Bombay, India. He was educated in England but returned to India in 1882. A decade later, Kipling married Caroline Balestier and settled in Brattleboro, Vermont, where he wrote The Jungle Book (1894), among a host of other works that made him hugely successful. Kipling was the recipient of the 1907 Nobel Prize in Literature. He died in 1936.


Introduction of the novel:

       
Rudyard Kipling was one of the most popular writers of his era, and his novel Kim, first published in 1901, has become one of his most well-known non-juvenile works.The novel takes place at a time contemporary to the book's publication; its setting is India under the British Empire. The title character is a boy of Irish descent who is orphaned and grows up independently in the streets of India, taken care of by a "half-caste" woman, a keeper of an opium den. Kim, an energetic and playful character, although full-blooded Irish, grows up as a "native" and acquires the ability to seamlessly blend into the many ethnic and religious groups of the Indian subcontinent. When he meets a wandering Tibetan lama who is in search of a sacred river, Kim becomes his follower and proceeds on a journey covering the whole of India. Kipling's account of Kim's travels throughout the subcontinent gave him opportunity to describe the many peoples and cultures that made up India, and a significant portion of the novel is devoted to such descriptions, which have been both lauded as magical and visionary and derided as stereotypical and imperialistic.

Summery of the novel:
 
                      Once upon a time (because at its heart, Kim is a fairy tale), there was an orphan boy named Kimball O'Hara, Kim for short. In fact, this isn't just any old fairy tale time: this book takes place specifically around the late 1890s in British India. Kim spends his time in the city of Lahore running around, scrounging food, and generally leading a carefree and mischief-heavy life.But there is a prophecy surrounding KimNo, not "neither can live while the other service" — that's about a different orphan boy. Kim's prophecy comes down from his now-deceased father: Apparently, Kim's luck will change once he finds a Red Bull on a green field. And two men will appear first to prepare the way for the arrival of this Red Bull.So one day Kim is playing in front of the Lahore Museum (which everyone in the book calls the Wonder House) and he spots someone wearing clothes of a style he's never seen before. This man is a lama , a Tibetan Buddhist from the North. The lama wants to speak to the curator of the Wonder House because he has heard that the curator is a wise man. He needs to talk to smart people, because he is looking for something extremely important to him: the River of the Arrow.
               According to the lama, once during a test of strength the Buddha shot an arrow out far beyond his furthest target. Where the arrow landed, a River sprung up. If the lama can find that river and bathe in it, then he will be Enlightened. Kim is so interested by the lama—by his strangeness and his seriousness—that he volunteers to go along with him on his journey to find the River of the Arrow. The lama is glad to have a chela, a disciple, and the two make plans to go to the holy city of Benares .The night before Kim and the lama leave Lahore, they spend the night with Kim's old friend Mahbub Ali, a horse-trader. Mahbub Ali has an exciting side job in the British Indian Secret Service. He likes Kim because the kid is a dependable carrier of messages and because he is really good at disguises and hiding.
          When he hears that Kim is going south, he thinks this is the perfect opportunity to get a little kid to do a dangerous job for him, so Mahbub Ali hands Kim a secret, coded message to bring to an Englishman in the city of Umballa  when he and the lama pass through. Kim is delighted to do it—he just loves trouble.As Kim and the lama travel south by train and on foot, they bond, but Kim's mind is always on his little side-errand for Mahbub Ali. When they reach Umballa, he quietly leaves the lama behind while he goes to the compound of the Englishman to whom he is supposed to pass on his message.Once he has given this Englishman his note confirming that there are five kings in northern India who are planning to break away from the British Indian government, he secretly sits and waits to hear what comes of it. When he sees the Englishman planning troop deployments to the North, he gets really excited. This is the life as far as Kim is concerned, delivering information that has real impact on state decisions.
           Kim goes back to the lama and they continue their search for the lama's River of the Arrow. But as they are walking the Grand Trunk Road  they happen upon Kim's prophesied Red Bull.They are standing in a field when they see two guys—advance scouts—looking for a place for their regiment to camp. Once they choose a place, they plant their regimental flag: it's a Red Bull on a green background. It turns out that Kim's father's prophecy was actually a description of the flag that belongs to his former regiment in the British Army, the Irish Mavericks.Kim slips into the army camp and gets caught by an Anglican priest attached to the regiment. He and Father Victor, his Catholic colleague, both finally figure out that Kim is none other than Kimball O'Hara, Sr.'s son. They also speak to the lama about Kim. The lama is amazed that Kim is actually a British boy—since Kim speaks Urdu and has been traveling with him in Indian clothing, he doesn't seem English at all. But now that the lama knows that Kim is British, he wants Kim to have the best education that money can buy. So the lama offers to pay Kim's tuition to St. Xavier's, a great (fictional) school in Lucknow. 
                 What a transformation: Kim goes from this smart, charming little wiseass kid to a reluctant British schoolboy in a matter of days. Kim hates his early days at the regimental school, and he writes to Mahbub Ali to please, please, please come rescue him. Mahbub Ali does come by, but he doesn't rescue him—instead, he does something much better: he recommends Kim to Colonel Creighton, the Englishman who received Mahbub Ali's message in Umballa. Creighton keeps tabs on Kim when he moves south to start school at St. Xavier's in Lucknow. And he is impressed enough with Kim's sass, creativity, and resourcefulness that he arranges for Kim to spend time over summer break with a legend named Lurgan in the city of Simla. This man Lurgan teaches Super Special Spy Skills, like remembering where objects are (seriously, this is a vital spy skill), assessing people's character, and resisting hypnosis.Between Lurgan, his ongoing friendship with Mahbub Ali, and his more formal education at St. Xavier's, Kim grows up prepared to become what Creighton wants him to be: an agent in the British Indian Secret Service. Kim has a particular talent for getting people to talk to him and for hiding his identity as a British guy. These are (apparently) useful traits when you want to spy for the British colonial government of India. And at seventeen, Kim is ready to go back on the road the way he used to when he was a kid.Creighton is a little reluctant to let a seventeen-year-old just wander around India on the government's dime, so he gives Kim a probation period: he wants Kim to travel for six months to remind himself what real life in India is like. And since Creighton doesn't want Kim to go alone, Mahbub Ali tells Kim to go back to his old friend the lama in the city of Benares.

            Backtracking a bit, while Kim has been off learning how to make maps and do spy stuff, the lama has been traveling all over India. He has visited all of the holy sites of Buddhism in the country. But the more he has traveled, and the more wise men that he has spoken to, the more convinced he is that his real quest is for the River of the Arrow. And the lama believes that he won't be able to find this River without the help of his beloved disciple, Kim. So when Kim leaves school, the lama is thrilled to find him ready to rejoin the search for the River, and for Enlightenment.Back in the present, Kim and the lama are planning to stay for a bit at the house of a woman they met during their first round of searching for the River of the Arrow: the Kulu woman. Kulu s a region in the foothills of the Himalayas. Once they arrive there, they find a familiar face: the Babu, disguised as a hakim. The Babu quickly brings Kim up to speed about why he's here: the thing is, he has spotted two Russian agents (well, one of them is French, but they both represent the Russians) making friends with two of the five potentially rebel kings right on the northern borders between British India and Afghanistan.
            Together, Kim and the Babu convince the lama that his River is probably in the north, in the foothills of the Himalayas. The lama is glad to hear this suggestion, since (being from Tibet) he loves mountains and feels at home there.They all travel north, Kim and the lama as pilgrims and the Babu in his hakim disguise. The Babu rushes on ahead and befriends these two Russian agents; he pretends to be a guide, and volunteers to bring them to Simla (the summer capital of British India). He also takes care to badmouth the British and praise Russia at every opportunity, which totally fools these two guys into thinking he is loyal to them.When the people of the valley see this foreigner hitting a holy man, they immediately turn against these two Russian agents, and it's only thanks to the lama's request that the two men get away with their lives. But as the two men flee (along with the Babu, who is still pretending to guide them), they leave behind their baggage. When Kim searches it, he finds a locked box filled with letters and messages from the hill kings that speak of treason against the British Indian government. In other words, from the point of view of a Secret Service agent, Kim has found the jackpot.
              In the aftermath of his Brush With Death, the lama has a crisis of faith. In the split second after the Russian guy hit him in the face, the lama wanted him to die. The lama gave into anger and a desire for vengeance—for a little while at least—so he is convinced that he has begun to wander from his religious path.The lama and Kim travel south to the house of the Kulu woman. By the time they arrive, the lama is sick in the soul (thanks to his guilt over his brief flare-up of anger at the Russian agent) and Kim is sick in the body (because he's been lugging this locked box full of papers all over the Himalayas while trying to take care of the lama). Concerned over his health, the lama hands Kim over to the Kulu woman, who gives him a long massage and puts him to bed. Kim sleeps for thirty-six hours with his super-secret stolen papers under his bed—that's how tired he was.
             When Kim wakes up he finds that big things have been happening: first, the Babu has arrived at the Kulu woman's house to find Kim. He guided the two agents all the way to Simla, while deliberately steering them away from closer European settlements, so that he could delay any action they might take over their lost luggage.When the Babu left them, they actually wrote out a recommendation for him for future employment as a guide—that's how good his performance as a loyal employee and Russian sympathizer was. But now the Babu is ready to take over Kim's secret papers proving the betrayal of these northern kings. He will bring them to Creighton in the South, and Kim's first real secret mission as a grown-up is officially a total success.
The other thing that's happened while Kim has been sleeping is that the lama has had a vision. After two days of fasting, he saw himself flying high above the world and coming right to the edge of the Great Soul at the center of creation. But just as he was about to receive Enlightenment, a voice asked him what would happen to Kim if the lama died. Hearing this, the lama decides to go back to his body to bring wisdom back to his beloved disciple.
He comes out of his vision soaking wet, since he apparently walked into a nearby river in his trance… and this river must be none other than the River of the Arrow. So the lama has found his River at long last, and he is ready to show it to Kim to bring him wisdom. The lama has come to a spiritual understanding of his place in the world and of his grandfatherly relationship to young Kim.

I have refer summery from this cite.
https://www.shmoop.com/kim-rudyard-kipling/summary.html

Tuesday, 23 January 2018

Design poem by Robert frost.

Design
by Robert Frost.

Introduction about the auther:

           Robert Lee Frost (March 26, 1874 – January 29, 1963) was an American poet. His work was initially published in England before it was published in America. Known for his realistic depictions of rural life and his command of American colloquial speech, Frost frequently wrote about settings from rural life in New England in the early twentieth century, using them to examine complex social and philosophical themes.Robert Frost probably has the most name recognition of any American poet ever. His best-known works include “The Road Not Taken” and “Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening,” both of which have become synonymous with the genre of nature poetry. Frost, though, was much more than just a nature poet. “Home Burial,” for example, deals with overwhelming grief after the death of a child. “Fire and Ice,” while somewhat tongue-in-cheek, considers the apocalyptic end of the world. And some of his poems, such as “The Oven Bird,” are a complex treatment of a difficult rhyme scheme, proving that Frost could technically match anyone in form. Furthermore, Frost helped form the conception of Americans as tough, self-sufficient individuals. This New England native, often called the “Icon of Yankee Values,” remains the quintessential American poet.

Analysis of the poem:

        Robert frost poem with title design is a philosophical poem which start that there is a design of destiny or God in everything and every incidental which happen in our life to show this truth the poet speak up the subject matter of a spider, a mouth becomes in morsel of a spider.
               It is night and in the darkness of night one mouth is inspired wants to catch that mouth on that white flower and so it changes its color to white so that it may remain invisible to the eyes of that mouth. That spider remains successful in catching the mouth and very soon the wings of that mouth are detached from its body, or in down just like paper kite. The poet observe this scene and click realization in he that even in the smallish of the small incident which happen in this world there is a design of destiny. Destiny made that proud might and inspired that mouth to go to that flower. The same desting inspired spider to climb up that hight to go to that flower and o begins his morning ritual by making that mouth its food. The poet comes to conclusion that nothing happen in this world without design. The seal of desting is a must for the occurrence of any incident.




Fire and Ice

Fire and Ice
By Robert frost.
Introduction:
       Robert Lee Frost (March 26, 1874 – January 29, 1963) was an American poet. His work was initially published in England before it was published in America. Known for his realistic depictions of rural life and his command of American colloquial speech, Frost frequently wrote about settings from rural life in New England in the early twentieth century, using them to examine complex social and philosophical themes.Robert Frost probably has the most name recognition of any American poet ever. His best-known works include “The Road Not Taken” and “Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening,” both of which have become synonymous with the genre of nature poetry. Frost, though, was much more than just a nature poet. “Home Burial,” for example, deals with overwhelming grief after the death of a child. “Fire and Ice,” while somewhat tongue-in-cheek, considers the apocalyptic end of the world. And some of his poems, such as “The Oven Bird,” are a complex treatment of a difficult rhyme scheme, proving that Frost could technically match anyone in form. Furthermore, Frost helped form the conception of Americans as tough, self-sufficient individuals. This New England native, often called the “Icon of Yankee Values,” remains the quintessential American poet.

Summery of the poem :

               Fire and ice is a very short but remarkable poem of Robert Frost in which the poets philosophically temperament is found the present short poem deals with the theme of the distortion of universe but while dealing with these things the poet comes before us as a performed philosopher. The opening line of the poem preface a meeting on thought of Indian mythology and Christian mythology and Christian mythology of the west some people are of the opinion that this world would be destroyed because of fire and some others believe that the world would be destroyed because of water. In Indian mythology there is an account of how king Manu was saved by the flued with the help of lord Vishnu who was in guise of fish. It describes how the world was destroyed because of flued. The Christian myth of the west mentions that the world would be destroyed because of fire.
             The poet frost in the opening of the poem refers to these two myths and he believed that the world would be destroyed because of fire. The poet here uses the world would be destroyed because of fire. The poet here uses the world “Fire’ as a symbol to signify human desire, the poet wants to convey that human desire are just like flame of fire and there is no end to human desire. So the poet is one of the opinion that the world would be destroyed because of the fire of human desires because human desire is a major driming force which compels a person to go to of those desire. The poet then says that Ice is also equally capable of destroying the world. The poet associates ice with cold – blooded hatred which modern man has for a fellow human being the days of physical was are born now it is replaced with cold – blooded  hatred with which people are destroyed mentally so the poet says that ice also capable of destroyed the world.
                  The present poem has a philosophical note in it as it comments on human nature. The first aspect of human nature is burning desire and the second aspect is cold hatred both are having the capacity to destroyed this world. This truth of modern life peach highlighted in the present poem.