work was The Fakir of Jungheera. Kashiprasad Ghose was one of the first Indians to publish a regular volume of English verse. The shair and other poems (1830) is a great contribution to the level of ’Gorboduc’ in English literature. Michael Madhusudan Dutt was equally a talented writer. His Meghanad Badha is a great Bengali epic and he wrote in English The captive Ladie. There followed a lot of writers. ’Derozio’s men’ who aspired to become eminent in the field. Besides writers‚ political leaders‚ religious
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The Indian English novel evolved as a subaltern consciousness; as a reaction to break away from the colonial literature. Hence the post colonial literature in India witnessed a revolution against the idiom which the colonial writers followed. Gradually the Indian English authors began employing the techniques of hybrid language‚ magic realism peppered with native themes. Thus from a post colonial era Indian literature ushered into the modern and then the post-modern era. The saga of the Indian English
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language. The writings of people like Raja Ram Mohun Roy‚ Swami Vivekananda‚ Mahatma Gandhi and others started pouring in and gave rise to a body of prose literature having great socio-cultural relevance. Soon poets like Romesh Chandra Dutt‚ Toru Dutt and many others took to writing poetry in English. But this literature was highly influenced by the style and content of English literature. When Sarojini Naidiu wrote poetry while in England and showed it to Sir Edmund Gosse‚ he advised
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An Overview of Kamla Das’s autobiography and her poems Aasthaba Jadeja Indian women poets writing in English from Toru Dutt to Kamala Das reveal the mind boggling variety of themes as well as style that poetry is capable of offering. It needs to be remembered that poetry written by women need not be viewed only as feminist poetry. For the first time in Indian English poetry‚ the women poets of post- Independence and postmodern period portrayed in a subversive idiom their desires‚ lust‚ sexuality
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OUR CASUARINA TREE by Toru Dutt Extract 1 Ans 1 The tree referred to in the extract is the casuarina tree. The creeper is said to be like a python because it climbs and winds around the tree tightly and is so thick that it appears to embrace the tree till the summit. Ans 2 The creeper is thick and quite old since it has reached the summit of the tree. It is quite strong and covers the tree completely. It looks like a huge python crushing the tree in its grasp. Ans 3 The
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"Our Casuarina Tree" Toru Dutt: the poetess‚ while living abroad‚ is pining for the scenes of her native land and reliving the memories of her childhood. In the first part of the poem the poetess depicts the casuarina tree trailed by a creeper vine like a huge python‚ winding round and round with the rough trunk‚ sunken deep with scars. It reached to the height touching very summit near the stars. The casuarina tree stood alone unaccompanied in the compound wearing the scarf of the creeper hung with
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00……………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………….- .0 ’’ THE CASUARINA TREE ’’ is one of the most touching poem by Toru Dutt who was born in Rambagan ‚ Kolkata. She had two siblings Aru & Abju . Both of them died and Toru was gripped in deep melancholy. Actually this fact influences the entire lyric......... The casuarina tree is winded round by a networks of creepers which resembles a python curling and crushing its
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Although Toru‚ the protagonist of Sakura Shrine Girls‚ comes from a family with a long lineage of priests he is more of a skeptic. Despite generations of his family all dedicating themselves to the understanding of the the spirit world‚ Toru simply doesn’t believe in gods or spirits at all. However‚ Toru does believe in keeping old practices alive‚ despite how silly they seem to him‚ which is why he goes and lives with his grandfather to receive training in the family tradition. Initially Toru thinks
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UNIVERSITY OF CALCUTTA SYLLABI FOR THREE-YEAR B.A. HONOURS & GENERAL COURSES OF STUDIES ENGLISH 2010 1 W.E.F. 2010-2011 SYLLABI FOR THREE-YEAR B.A( HONOURS & GENERAL) COURSES OF STUDIES IN ENGLISH‚2010 HONOURS Word-limit for the answers for the honours papers Full marks of the questions → 16 7 12 8 14 4 9 5 18 10 15 35 20 Word-limit of the answers → 600 250 450 300 500 150 350 200 700 400 550 1000
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finding one’s self‚ yet what enables people to change? In Haruki Murakami’s novel‚ The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle‚ Toru is on a quest to find his wife and better understand her as well as their marriage after she leaves him. During this time‚ Toru meets his neighbor‚ a teenage girl‚ named May‚ who he shares many conversations with. Later‚ she moves to work at a wig factory and writes letters to Toru as a way of therapy‚ but they never get to him. Throughout the novel‚ May’s job at the wig factory enables
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