The Soldier : by Rupert Brook

The poem talks about a soldier who loves his country and his extremely patriotic. In this poem he wish that he should be buried  in his native land after his death because his country is very special to him.he wants a corner him England were the dust is rich and his home.

His country has shaped him and made him what he is and he has fond of England were in he has  spent the best part of his life from his childhood. He has learnt all the good  things from this country and he wants to give back all good things to his country again.

Everything to his country is beautiful to him and every sight in that country makes him proud of his on country. He has got all his friends and best moments in his life from his country and as a result wants to be at peace in his native land because to him this place has made him what he is today and wants to get desovled in his motherland.

The Fly: by William Black

The poem talks about that a human being  goes to end and how  a small experience can change the entire thought process of human being .It is also all about finding meaning from the smallest of the act this poem reflect excatlly that.

Starting with the first stanza the poet takes us too a very simple happening about the fly while the fly is busy playing all of sudden .The hands of human being kills it. This shows that we as human have become  extremely selfish as we believe that we are only ones who have live to life in this world.as soon as the  poem enters  the second Stan  the human suddenly threw changes in thought process. He is not happy with what he has done and as a result starts comparing himself with the fly by saying that both of them are near mortals.

Moving forward to the third stanza the comparison goes further the poet makes us aware about how he also like fly as he dancing, sings, and drinks without thinking about the future but at the end  of this stanza he says that one day even I would be killed by God's hand.the fourth stanza talks about the thought of life and death and  argues further that we as humans belives that our life of a fly.as we think that only we are capable of judging  the meaning of life.

In last  stanza  poet transforms  himself into a fly in his thought process. And starts believing that one should be living as freely and  happily as a fly. Without thinking too much about future and the ultimate reality of death.

She walks in Beauty: Lord Byron

The poem is about unnamed women.she really quite striking and the speaker compare her to lots of beautiful but dark things like knight, and starry- skies  . The second stanza  continue to use the contrast between light and dark, day and night to describe her beauty. We also learn that her face is beautiful and pure as well as sweet.the third stanza conclude that by saying that she is not only beautiful externally but internally as well 

The poet describes a woman who “walks in beauty, like the night/Of cloudless climes and starry skies” . Immediately the light of stars and the shadow of night are brought forth as contrasts, foreshadowing the further contrasts the poet notices regarding this beautiful woman. Seeing her eyes, he declares that in her face “all that’s best of dark and bright” are joined. Her beauty is contrasted to the “gaudy” daylight.

The final stanza returns to her face, but again sees the silent expression of peace and calm in her cheek, brow, and smiles. Her pleasant facial expressions eloquently but innocently express her inner goodness and peacefulness.

In the second stanza, the poet reflects on the balance in the woman’s beauty: “One shade the more, one ray the less”would hinder the “nameless grace” which surrounds her. He then turns to her inner life, seeing her external beauty as an expression of thoughts that dwell in a place (perhaps her mind, or her beautiful head and face) both “pure” and “dear”

The slaves dream by H.W.longfellow

The slave dream is a very emotional poem about the slave and his longing for his native land. A writing component's  used to  create a tone off injustice is presented in a creative way. They produced deep meaning to the simple sentences throughout the poem. The poet uses diction,imagery and personification to get across  his tone to the rider.

"Wide through the handscape of his
Dreams the lordly niger flowed"
This line is an example of the diction that he uses. The way it is used or worded brings many questions to mind. When the poet a uses ' lordly ' he wishes to contrast what the reader already knows about the slavery.

"He saw once more his dark eyed queen"
Among her children stand;
"They clasped his neck, they kissed his cheeks;
They held him by hand"

The poet uses imagery in this statement. The way he discribes the childrens affection for the father after they see him is very real. This statement also help acknowledge the fact of  slavery. The man dreams of  his affection because it is something he discribes.

" The forest with their myriad tongues, shouted of liberty"

The poet uses personification to bring the forest to like he wants  the reader to see that they tried for freedom but they did not get it.  The poet tone of injustice is shown when you see the slave powerless and also shows annyoed attitude of the poet towards slavery.the injustice is further specified when at the end the slave has to die

Theme: slavery

La bell dame sans merci by john Keats

La belle same sans Merci written in 1819 depicts a knight who has seduced  and abandoned by fairy told in form of dialogue. The poem talks about  the experience of loving dangerously and fully, or remaining loyal to that love despite warnings and of suffering the living  death of betrayal at the end of the poem ,the knight remains on a cold Hill's side,a world without happiness or duty,waiting for his love to return.

Poem showcases journey of knight and his emotional incompleteness.the title itself suggest that this poem  talks about a beautiful lady without pity. This poem is about knight who is suffering at the cold Hill's sight.in the first three stanza narrator continuously questions the knight on what had happened to him.out of extreme pain knight does not feel like answering the speaker. However from the forth stanza we have shift in narration as the knight starts explaining his extreme physical and mental sickness.The poem includes mythology and structure of midial romance. It is supposed love story between the knight and the fairy.

The knight from the forth stanza talks about how he met the fairy who was extremely beautiful. He spent quality time with her.they later on moved to the great love and mad love. After  knight sleep and in sleep the knight saw horrible  dream  where in he sobed, kings, princess horious . All of them betrayed by the fairy. This is how knight came across the horrible nature of fairy and when he got up from the sleep he found himself in the same situation as others. This poem heavily depends upon the folklore of the fairy and the soldier. It is believed that John Keats himself was unsuccessful in marrying his fiancee because of certain reasons and the knight in a way represents a bit of Keats.

The Old man and The Sea By Hemingway

" The old man and the sea " fulfils most of these criteria of a tragedy.throughout the novel we see Santiago is showing heroic deeds.the boys manolin  calls him best fisherman.santiago calls himself "a strange old man"  with strength enough for a truly big fish,knowing many tricks and having 'resolution' .he is not ordinary Fisherman ,but a superb craftsman who knows his business through my and always practice it with great skill.
On the eighty fifth day Santiago rows far beyond the customary fishing area and he hooks ahuge Marlin. The account of Santiago's struggle  with the Marlin has tragic quality because of suffering of both  fish and fisherman.
From the very first day Santiago shows determination "Fish" he says "I will stay with you until I m dead" next he says " Fish ,I love you and respect you very much but I will kill you dead before this day ends"
His left hand becomes cramped,and the Marlin proves to bigger than he had thought it to be. He wishes to show to the Marlin what sort of a man he is.
Santiago kills big Marlin  .He fights heroically.there he speaks memorable and historic words " But man is not made for defeat, A man  can destroyed but not defeated "

Santiago experiences what is called an inner conflict. Having killed Marlin he ask himself whether he has committed sin.
The old man and the sea is remarkable tale of courage, endurance,pride, humility and death. it is especially like Greek tragedy in that as the hero fails and falls.thus old man and  the sea is a moving parable about the apotheosis of human soul, about humanity's struggle to survive in hostile world,it's passion to show grace under pressure.

Kanthapura By raja Rao

Kanthapura is first major Indian novel in english by raja Rao.the novel deals with the civil disobedience movements of 1930 . Mahatma Gandhi on participation of a small village  of South India in the national struggles calls for the story's central concern. It is believed as an epic of freedom struggle on all sides of India's immensity and the creative construction big a work of fiction through nationalism and spirituality.
When the novel begins the concept of freedom and nationalism is alien to the villagers.the novel begins with the information of the kanthapura.the villagers sacrifice all their material possession in triumph of the spirit. Acchaka narrates the story.she is an old village women and the story revolves around in a village kanthapura in South India. In this village there are clear discrimination between brahmin,shudra and pariha quarrels still the mutual bonding between the villagers are very strong and they live happily with equal social and economical bonding.

A protagonist of the novel  is young brahmin boy named moorthy  staunch follower of Mahatma Gandhi.once this boy  found a half buries linga in the village . He dig it out,installed it at another place and built a temple their.  This temple became center of social life in village. Moorthy  arranged various religious ceremonies and Kathas here.
In this novel we show aweakning against foreign exploitation. A police  bade Khan was posted in the village,to keep an eye on going on there. He could get no accommodation in the village.the sahib of the neighboring skeffington.

Coffee estate opened hut for him and logged him in the estate. The Congress committee of the nearby karwar city consumed moorthy. He comeback village with lots of Congress  literature and spinning wear home spun khaddar discard the foregoing cloths and thus stop economic exploitation of indians by foreigners.

Moorthy  in fact had turned into a Gandhi man ever since. He saw the Mahatma  in a vision  he than discarded his foreign clothes, adopted khadi and returned to kanthapura. He preached Gandhi's idea or truth .Moorthy is  arrested.came the month of vaishakh and thus news that moorthy was going  to be released on the appointed day, people of kanthapura gathered to welcome their hero. But police brought moorthy to ranggamma's house through a secret route. People gathered there , shouting slogans like" Mahatma Gandhi ki hai " and "vande Mataram"
The crowd was asked to disperse peacefully and they obeyed because that their leaders wish. People notice no change in moorthy. He was to use the authors word "as ever as"

Kanthapura  is a work of social realism. The life here is symbolic.by fusing religion and politics kanthapura evince the divine truth that man's status in society is spiritual as much as it is political.acchaka the narrator vis like Shelly's westwind a symbol of rebirth and regeneration.moorthy become symbol of modern progressive and spiritual leader. At times he is a bhakt prahlad, a Messiha of the pariah, a symbol of new life in kanthapura. He is true symbol of vedanta. He states " there is but one force in life and that is truth, and there is but one God in life that is love of mankind,and there is one God in life and that'sis gods of all." Moorthy said that he is just " a pebble among pebbles of the river, and when the floods come, rocked by rock may be buried". This statement suggest his Victory against egoism. The total destruction of kanthapura is symbol of new life emerging out if the dead one. Cut of the holy ashes arises kashipura.