This ppt is based on the poem Frog and the nightingale presented by MTB Jnana Jyothi Vidyanikethan-CBSE of class-10

1. Welcome to the PowerPoint
presentation on
The frog and the
nightingale.

2. Index
• School
• Project Team
• Guide
• About Author
• Main Story
• Analysis

3. MTB Jnana Jyothi
Vidyanikethan School CBSE
2015-16
Formative Assessment 1

4. Project Team
Madhu Priya.D
Preety Rawat
Akriti Painuly
Thejaswini
Pooja
Harshitha

5. Under the esteemed
guidance of
Mrs Padmini,
MA, M.Ed, M.Phil, M.H.R.M
Principal,
MTB Jnana Jyothi Vidyanikethan.

6. The Frog and Nightingale
A story penned by:
Vikram Seth.

7. • Vikram Seth (born 20 June 1952) is
an Indian novelist and poet. He has written
several novels and poetry books. He has received
several awards including Padma Shri, Sahitya
Academy Award, Pravasi Bharatiya Samman, WH
Smith Literary Award and Crossword Book
Award. Seth's collections of poetry such as
"Mappings" and "Beastly tales", are notable
contributions to the Indian English language
poetry. He spent part of his childhood
in Patna since his parents were posted there for
a while. He attended St. Xavier's High School.

8. Seth spent part of his youth in London and
returned to India in 1957. He received primary
education at Welham Boys' School and then moved
to The Doon School. While at Doon, Seth was the
editor-in-chief of The Doon School Weekly. After
graduating from The Doon School in India, Seth
went toTonbridge School, England to complete
his A-levels, where he developed an interest in
poetry and learned Chinese. After obtaining a
degree from Corpus Christi College, Oxford, Seth
moved to California to work on a graduate degree
in economics at Stanford University. He then went
on to study creative writing at Stanford and
classical Chinese poetry at Nanjing University in

9. Having lived in London for many years, Seth now
maintains residences near Salisbury, England,
where he is a participant in local literary and
cultural events, having bought and renovated the
house of the Anglican poet George Herbert in
1996, and in Jaipur, India.
In 2006, he became a leader of the campaign
against Section 377 of the Indian Penal Code, a
law against homosexuality. Leila Seth, his mother
wrote about Seth's sexuality and her coming to
terms with it in her memoir.

10. The frog and
the
nightingale.

11. Once in a bog, a
frog sat under a
Sumac tree and
croaked all night
in a loud and
unpleasant voice.
Other creatures
loathed his voice
but their
complaints, insults
and brickbats
couldn't stop him
from croaking
stubbornly and
pompously,

12. Then, one
night a
nightingale
appears at the
bog. Her
melodious voice
captures the
admiring
attention of
the creatures
of the Bingle
Bog. The
jealous frog
disturbed by

13. Ducks and herons
swim towards the
Sumac tree to
hear the
nightingale singing.
Some lonely
creatures even
weep at hearing
her song. When
she stops, there is
thunderous
applause with the
creatures

14. Next night, when
the modest bird
prepares to sing,
the plotting frog
interrupts and
poses as a music
critic, says that
the technique was
fine, of course,
but it lacks a
certain force.
Unassuming and
not used to any
kind of criticism,
she defends
herself by saying,
"At least its
mine".Then, the

15. The nightingale soon
became famous and the
frog grew richer,
earning money from her
concerts. Eminent
personalities like the
Owl (Earl) of Sandwich
and Duck (Duke) of
Kent attend the
concerts. The frog sat
and watched with mixed
feelings of happiness
and bitterness. Happy
because he was earning
money and jealous

16. The frog
forces the
nightingale to
to sing all
the time.
The
nightingale
couldn’t sing
properly.

17. Frog makes the
nightingale
rehearse hard
even when it
rained and
constantly
criticized and
abused her,
ensuring that
she became
broken in spirit.

18. Fired and spent,
her voice lost its
beauty and the
creatures stopped
coming to hear her
Morose and
depressed, she
refused to sing, but
the frog goaded her
to practice her
singing.

19. Scared and
unhappy, the
nightingale tried,
burst a vein, and
died.The frog,
unsympathetic,
dismissed her
off - calling her
'stupid'. A
shrewd judge of
character, he
summed her up
saying that the
nightingale was
too nervous and

20. Now, the frog
once more sings
at night in his
bog – unrivalled.
And all animals
again face the
same problem…..

21. Analysis
In the poem The Frog and the Nightingale, by
Vikram Seth, the character of the frog is
portrayed as diametrically opposite to that of the
nightingale. The frog is shown to be irritating,
proud and disdainful. As we see, he is boastful of
a talent he doesn’t possess. He sings loudly in a
coarse, harsh voice that disturbs everyone.
Everyone in the jungle hates him. But all this
doesn’t affect him. The frog also feels jealous of
nightingale’s popularity. He is also very cruel and
greedy as he forces the poor nightingale to sing
day and night without taking rest in order to make
more money. In this way, he is not a likeable
character.

22. On the other hand, the nightingale is
unconfident, timid and shy. But she has a
beautiful, melodious voice that makes her very
likeable. When she sings for the first time,
she impresses everyone instantaneously.
Visitors from far off places come to listen to
her voice. But she is not proud of all this at
all. In fact, she lacks confidence and faith in
herself. Not only is she unaware of her own
talent, she makes a big mistake by believing
strongly in the frog’s judgment of her song. Of
course, one should accept criticism positively
and try to improve, but not without a careful

24. Thank you