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A poem, written by Markus Natten, covering both CBSE and TBSE syllabus of Class XI English, the slide has been made with utter care, so that students can understand easily. Some questions are also added, along with word meanings etc.
Childhood
The poet is trying to determine when exactly his childhood ended. He questions if it was when he turned 11, when he realized heaven and hell couldn't be found on a map, or when he saw that adults weren't perfectly loving like they claimed to be. Another possibility was when he gained an awareness of his own individual thoughts and decisions. In the end, the poet's childhood seems to have disappeared to some forgotten place visible only in an infant's face.
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A poem, written by Markus Natten, covering both CBSE and TBSE syllabus of Class XI English, the slide has been made with utter care, so that students can understand easily. Some questions are also added, along with word meanings etc.
Childhood
The poet is trying to determine when exactly his childhood ended. He questions if it was when he turned 11, when he realized heaven and hell couldn't be found on a map, or when he saw that adults weren't perfectly loving like they claimed to be. Another possibility was when he gained an awareness of his own individual thoughts and decisions. In the end, the poet's childhood seems to have disappeared to some forgotten place visible only in an infant's face.
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The document is an English project report created by Sushree Behera for class 11 discussing the importance of childhood. It includes a poem called "Childhood" by Markus Natten that expresses confusion over when and where childhood ends. The report then provides context on the poet, analysis of the poem, and background information on the historical concept of childhood and how it has changed over time.
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In this poem, the poet is disappointed and puzzled by the loss of his childhood. He wanted to know when was the moment he became a grown-up and lost the innocence of an infant. He expresses his confusion by asking that when and where did his childhood go.
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The document summarizes a poem about a child coming of age and realizing that childhood cannot be regained. It notes that the poem characterizes adulthood, recognizes hypocrisy in adults, and describes the child developing its own individuality. The lyrical refrain asks when childhood went away. The analysis finds that the poem uses simple words and structures with an informal tone to ask rhetorical questions about losing childhood in a way that has universal appeal by touching on a theme all adults face.
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1919
1920
1921
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1927
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their race or the race of their characters doomed them to a
"political-only" analysis of their worth. If Phillis Wheatley
wrote "The sky is blue," the critical question was what could
blue sky mean to a black slave woman? If Jean Toomer
wrote "The iron is hot," the question was how accurately or
poorly he expressed chains of servitude. This burden
rested not only on the critics, but also on the reader. How
does a reader of any race situate herself or himself in order
to approach the world of a black writer? Won't there always
be apprehension about what may be revealed, exposed
about the reader? In 1970, when I began writing _Sula,__ I
had already had the depressing experience of reading
commentary on my first novel, _The Bluest Eye,__ by both
black and white reviewers that--with two exceptions--had
little merit since the evaluation ignored precisely the
"aesthetics only" criteria it championed. If the novel was
good, it was because it was faithful to a certain kind of
politics; if it was bad, it was because it was faithless to
them. The judgment was based on whether "Black people
are--or are not--like this." This time out, I returned the
compliment and ignored the shallowness of such views
and, again, rooted the narrative in a landscape already
tainted by the fact that it existed. Only a few people would
be interested, I thought, in any wider approach--fewer than
the tiny percentage of the fifteen hundred who had bought
the first book. But the act of writing was too personally
important for me to abandon it just beca ...
Toni Morrison SulaFirst published in 1973It is she.docx
Toni Morrison Sula
First published in 1973
It is sheer good fortune to miss somebody long before they
leave you. This book is for Ford and Slade, whom I miss
although they have not left me.
"Nobody knew my rose of the world but me... I had too
much glory. They don't want glory like that in nobody's
heart."
--The Rose Tattoo
Foreword
In the fifties, when I was a student, the embarrassment of
being called a politically minded writer was so acute, the
fear of critical derision for channeling one's creativity
toward the state of social affairs so profound, it made me
wonder: Why the panic? The flight from any accusation of
revealing an awareness of the political world in one's fiction
turned my attention to the source of the panic and the
means by which writers sought to ease it. What could be so
bad about being socially astute, politically aware in
literature? Conventional wisdom agrees that political fiction
is not art; that such work is less likely to have aesthetic
value because politics--all politics--is agenda and therefore
its presence taints aesthetic production. That wisdom,
which seems to have been unavailable to Chaucer, or
Dante, or Catullus, or Sophocles, or Shakespeare, or
Dickens, is still with us, and, in 1969 it placed an inordinate
burden on African American writers. Whether they were
wholly uninterested in politics of any sort, or whether they
were politically inclined, aware, or aggressive, the fact of
their race or the race of their characters doomed them to a
"political-only" analysis of their worth. If Phillis Wheatley
wrote "The sky is blue," the critical question was what could
blue sky mean to a black slave woman? If Jean Toomer
wrote "The iron is hot," the question was how accurately or
poorly he expressed chains of servitude. This burden
rested not only on the critics, but also on the reader. How
does a reader of any race situate herself or himself in order
to approach the world of a black writer? Won't there always
be apprehension about what may be revealed, exposed
about the reader? In 1970, when I began writing _Sula,__ I
had already had the depressing experience of reading
commentary on my first novel, _The Bluest Eye,__ by both
black and white reviewers that--with two exceptions--had
little merit since the evaluation ignored precisely the
"aesthetics only" criteria it championed. If the novel was
good, it was because it was faithful to a certain kind of
politics; if it was bad, it was because it was faithless to
them. The judgment was based on whether "Black people
are--or are not--like this." This time out, I returned the
compliment and ignored the shallowness of such views
and, again, rooted the narrative in a landscape already
tainted by the fact that it existed. Only a few people would
be interested, I thought, in any wider approach--fewer than
the tiny percentage of the fifteen hundred who had bought
the first book. But the act of writing was too personally
important for me to abandon it just beca ...
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Parting gifts for an international community
- 1. Parting Gifts For: the E-Moderation Learning Community, Oct 2013 From: Ana María Hurtado (Lima, Perú)
- 2. For Jill in Paris The voyage of discovery is not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes. Marcel Proust
- 3. For Maria Elena in Rumania “All of that pile on you so that, sooner or later, you cannot bear it anymore. And in that situation I started to write, because there was no other ways for me to express, except through the vicious cycle of words.” ― Herta Müller, Rumanian Nobel Prize for Literature
- 4. For Jude in Cheshire • Your Subtopics Go Here
- 5. For Stephanie in Melbourne “Fugitive as morning light she moves In a thin rain out and across the river Leaving no footprints” Dorothy Hewett
- 6. For Carol in Oxforshire “Any woman anywhere will blossom in a hundred unexpected talents and capacities simply by being given the opportunity to do so.” Doris Lessing
- 8. For Agnes in Cameroon “I did not choose writing, I found it. In my younger years, I used it mainly to express difficult things to share with others, to feel free and peaceful.” Leonora Miano
- 9. For Carla in Chile
- 10. For Lindsay in Spain Fight for what you want Don’t despair if something goes wrong, Today can be a great day And tomorrow as well.
- 11. For Pia in Chile • Your Subtopics Go Here
- 12. For Jane in Italy
- 13. For Rhona in Sri Lanka When hope is firmly anchored in your soul, life could weather all situations even in the stormy conditions and sail to a bright future. Ravi Sathasivam
- 14. For Fiona in Spain
- 16. Thank you for sharing this part of the road.