The document summarizes a poem about a frog and nightingale. The frog croaks loudly every night, while the nightingale sings beautifully. When the nightingale gains fame, the frog offers to train her voice to make it even better. However, the frog's training exhausts the nightingale, causing her voice to lose its beauty. She dies, allowing the frog to croak alone in the bog once more. The poem uses animals to convey themes of social criticism and the corrupt nature of developed societies driven by greed.

1. INDEX
1. Name And Title
2. Submitted to
3. Index
4. About the poet
5. Summary
6. Critical analysis
7. Literary devices
8. Character Sketch – Frog
9. Character Sketch – Nightingale
10. Important Words
11. Values
12. Character explanation
13. The End

2. The Frog
The Nightingale
AND

3. Submitted TO –
IX, Trinity CBSE
Project By –
J. Rajendra Cholan

4. Vikram Seth was born in Calcutta in 1952.
 He left India to study at Oxford
 His first novel, The Golden Gate, is written entirely in
tetrameter sonnets,
 He won the Commonwealth Poetry Prize in 1986and the
Sahitya Academy award in 1988.

5. • A Frog croaked all night in a bog, in an unpleasant voice
• One night a nightingale begin to sing in a melodious voice
• All the creatures in the bog cheered and clapped at her beautiful song
• Soon the nightingale become famous, and creatures from miles
around came to hear her song.
• The next night the frog introduced himself
• He offered to train the nightingale so she could sing even more
beautifully
• The frog charge an admission fee, and earned a lot of money from
this concerts.
• But the frog made the nightingale rehearse continuously in the rain
• As a result, her voice lost its beauty, and the other creatures stop
coming to hear her sing.
• Finally, the nightingale burst away and died.
• So the frog could sing unrivalled in the bog once more.

6. Critical Analysis
 The poem is a fable in which subjects of human interest are
projected through animal characters and in a wild setting. it is
written in the ballad form and its ryming sceme is aa, bb,
cc..............
 The literary devices like metaphors are few but very effectively
used.'Mozart' is an effective metaphor that shows higly the
nightingale thought of frog.
 The poem interweaves various messages for the readers. One of
The important themes projected is the social criticism- the modern
is so prone to get influenced by the public opinion that sometimes
he is ready to lose his originality in the wake of social criticism.
 The allegorically depicts the corrupt face of the industrialised,
developed world where greed, fame and competiton reigns while
values and ethics take a bach seat.

7. Literary devices
 Alliteration: Repetition of
initial consonant sounds in a
group of words close
together. "Bingle bog,"
"dusk to dawn," "crass
cacophony" The alliteration
mimics the repeating sounds
of frog's continual
croaking. This poem is full of
alliteration with the poet
using it on practically every
line.
 Onomatopoeia: The use of
words which imitate
sounds. "awn and awn and
awn" The sound of the word
mimics the sound of the
frog's croaking. Also the
word, "croak" sounds like the
sound that a frog makes
when it croaks as well. Later
in the poem, "ko-ash, ko-
ash" replicates the sound in
real life.

8. Literary devices
 Imagery: Words that appeal
to the senses. "Moonlight
cold and pale" creates a vivid
picture and sensory feeling in
the reader's mind.
 Metaphor: A comparison
between two things without
using like or as. "This is a
fairy tale and you're Mozart
in disguise" The nightingale
compares the frog to Mozart,
indicating her belief in his
musical talent.
 Personification: Giving
human like qualities to
objects or animals. The poet
personifies both the frog and
the nightingale to create two
relatable characters in the
poem.
 Rhyme: Most of the poem
rhymes in paired couplets.

9. Territorial and boastful – I’m the frog who owns the
tree.
Technique was fine, But it lacked certain force
Dismissive, inventive – Not to bad – but far too long.
The technique is fine…..
Patronizing, Haughty, Boastful – Without proper
training …You’ll remain a beginner.
 Polite, hypocrite - Come , my dear…
Possessive, greedy, selfish, crafty – “We must aim for
better billings…..”
Commanding, Pitiless, overbearing, authoritative,
commanding – Brainless bird you are….
Arrogant and condescending, deceitful, clever – “I
tried to teach her… a stupid creature”

10. Polite, soft, timorous. – “sorry was that you who
spoke”
Nervous and shy- “Did you, did you like my
song”
Timid, Meek, Nervous, Polite , Gentle - But I
can’t sing in this weather…
Timid and polite – “This is a fairy tale. And you
are Mozart in disguise..”

11. Important Words
1. Cacophony
2. Minstrelled
3. Elation
4. Horse
5. Subdued
6. Morse
7. Panache
1. A harsh, discordant
mixture of sounds
2. Sang
3. Great pride or joy
4. Rough and unclear
5. Quiet
6. Miserable
7. Confident and
elegant style

12. The Lesson of the poem is that being inspired
and influenced by someone much unknown and
strange is indeed a foolish work. The nightingale
could have very well judged that how could the
frog with such a harsh voice be music maestro
and she had to suffer for her misjudgment.
Many people in the human society also try to
take advantage of the innocence or ignorance of
the people.

13. Character’s
 Territorial - of or pertaining
to territory or land.
 Boastful - To glorify oneself
in speech; talk in a self-
admiring way.
 Dismissive - Showing
indifference or disregard
 Inventive - Adept or skillful at
inventing; creative.
 Patronizing - To act as a
patron to; support or
sponsor.
 Haughty - having or showing
arrogance
 Hypocrite - someone who
leads you to believe
something that is not true
 Possessive - having or
showing an excessive desire
to possess, control, or
dominate
 Greedy - Extremely eager or
desirous
 Crafty - skillful in underhand
or evil schemes
 Pitiless - Having no pity;
merciless.

14.  Overbearing - Domineering in
manner; arrogant:
 Authoritative - Wielding
authority; commanding
 Arrogant - Marked by or
arising from a feeling or
assumption of one's
superiority toward others
 Condescending - Displaying a
patronizingly superior
attitude
 Deceitful - Deliberately
misleading
 Timorous - indicating fear
 Timid - Lacking self-
confidence; shy.
 Meek - Showing patience and
humility; gentle
Character’s