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The document provides biographical information about Kamala Suraiyya, an Indian English poet and writer from Kerala. It then summarizes her short story "The Tattered Blanket", which explores the bitter truths of life in a simple manner. In the story, a mother craves her son's love which she symbolizes with a red blanket, as her old one is tattered. The tattered blanket represents the mother's worn soul, and she needs her son's love to feel warm again. The story portrays the voice of a wounded womanhood against the values of a male-dominated society.
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This document is a student's English project analyzing poems by Kamala Das. It includes an acknowledgement, introduction on Das's life and works, analysis of two poems - "My Mother at 66" and "My Grandmother's House" comparing their themes, style and differences. The student reflects on Das's introspective style and themes of aging/relationships. In conclusion, the analysis provides insight into Das's impact and exploration of self-discovery/human relationships in her poetry.
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This document is a student's English project analyzing poems by Kamala Das. It includes an acknowledgement, introduction on Das's life and works, analysis of her poetry style and themes in two poems. The student compares the poems "My Mother at 66" and "My Grandmother's House," discussing their similarities on aging themes and differences in subject matter and structure. The reflection notes Das's confessional style and exploration of relationships and time. In conclusion, the project provides insight into Das's impact and the themes examined in the two poems.
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The document provides a summary of an English assignment submitted by Anshul Chikhlikar. The assignment discusses two poems - "My Grandmother's House" by Kamala Das and "On the nature of love" by Rabindranath Tagore. For each poem, it provides the name of the poet and poem, a short biography of the poet, an excerpt from the poem, a summary of the poem, and identifies a figure of speech used in the poem.
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THE PRESENTATION WAS MADE IN 2012 AS A SCHOOL PROJECT. THE TOPIC IS THE SUMMARY OF THE POEM BY KAMALA DAS- MY MOTHER AT 66. GO THROUGH THE WHOLE PRESENTATION FOR A THOROUGH UNDERSTANDING OF THE CONCEPT.
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The poem is a reminiscence of the poetess’ grandmother and their ancestral home at Malabar in Kerala. Her memory of love she received from her grandmother is associated with the image of her ancestral home, where she had passed some of the happiest days of her life, and where her old grandmother had showered her love and affection. With the death of her grandmother the house withdrew into silence. When her grandmother died, even the house seemed to share her grief, which is poignantly expressed in the phrase “the House withdrew”. The house soon became desolate and snakes crawled among books. Her blood became cold like the moon because there was none to love her the way she wanted.
Aspects Of Friendly Love In Toni Morrison S Quot The Bluest Eye Quot And Q...
This document provides a summary of Toni Morrison's novels The Bluest Eye and Sula, with a focus on the concept of "friendly love" between African American female friends. It discusses how Morrison depicts the strong emotional connections between female characters as a means for overcoming racism and sexism. Such friendships allowed for self-realization and emancipation for African American women subjected to oppression. The summary specifically examines the relationship between Pecola Breedlove and her best friend Claudia MacTeer in The Bluest Eye, with Claudia telling Pecola's story and their friendship serving as a way to cope with their experiences of racism and repression.
My Grandmother's House
- The poem describes the poet's longing for her grandmother's house where she once received unconditional love. After her grandmother's death, the house became empty and silent.
- The poet wishes to return to the house to glimpse the "blind eyes of windows" or listen to the "frozen air", longing for memories of the love she once knew.
- Now devoid of that love, the poet says she has "lost [her] way" and must "beg now at strangers' doors" for even small amounts of love, contrasting her past happiness with her present lonely situation.
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The document provides information and guidance about an exam on the novels The Woman in Black and Of Mice and Men.
Section A focuses on The Woman in Black and requires answering one question from a choice of two, spending 45 minutes. Section B focuses on Of Mice and Men, requiring answering two parts - part a in 25 minutes and part b in 20 minutes. Part a asks about a theme or character in a given extract while part b asks about how that theme is explored in the whole text.
The document provides example questions, guidance on focusing answers on language and context from the extracts for part a and using quotes from across the novels for part b. It also gives information on symbols in Of Mice
The frog and the nightingale
The poem tells the story of a boastful frog and a nightingale in Bingle Bog. The frog considers himself a great singer, while the nightingale's beautiful song enchants the inhabitants of the bog. The frog grows jealous and tricks the nightingale into thinking he can improve her singing. He exploits her by forcing her to sing constantly. This causes the nightingale to lose her voice and health, until she dies trying to please the frog. The poem is a fable that warns about allowing others to manipulate you and lose your individuality.
My Grandmother's House
The poem describes the poet's longing for her grandmother's house where she once received unconditional love. After her grandmother's death, the house fell silent and became a place of darkness and horror. The poet wishes to return to the house to reconnect with the memory of love and comfort it once provided. She contrasts this with her current situation where, having lost her way after losing her grandmother's love, she must now beg strangers for even small amounts of love.
Confessional Manner in the Poetry of Kamala Das and Sylvia Plath
Confessional poetry is a part of modern poetry. There is no place either for religion or morals in this poetry. The poet does not expect any redemption or retribution as there is no anguish. It is just, that they bare their soul to get a psychic relief. It is of some therapeutic value. The confessional poems are intensely personal, highly subjective. There is no ‘persona’ in the poems. ‘I’ in the poem is the poet and nobody else. The themes are nudely embarrassing and focus too exclusively upon the pain, anguish and ugliness of life at the cost of its pleasure and beauty. Md Sadruzzama Sadar | Prof. Dr. Vijoy Mishra "Confessional Manner in the Poetry of Kamala Das and Sylvia Plath" Published in International Journal of Trend in Scientific Research and Development (ijtsrd), ISSN: 2456-6470, Volume-7 | Issue-1 , February 2023, URL: https://www.ijtsrd.com/papers/ijtsrd52707.pdf Paper URL: https://www.ijtsrd.com/humanities-and-the-arts/english/52707/confessional-manner-in-the-poetry-of-kamala-das-and-sylvia-plath/md-sadruzzama-sadar
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List of Errors for Essay Draft/Revised Essay, CLT3378, Fall 2019
Note that the errors below are not necessarily grouped in order of frequency, nor do the numbers
assigned to each error (e.g., 3 or 44) indicate any sort of point value.
1. Spelling or grammatical error.
2. Sentence fragment. (See 9.)
3. Insert comma.
4. Remove comma.
5. Using “I” in place of “me” (or vice versa).
6. Change comma to semicolon (or vice versa).
7. Change comma to colon (or vice versa).
8. Change semicolon to colon (or vice versa).
9. Using “whereas” (or other subordinating word or phrase) to introduce a subordinate clause,
but then providing no main clause after it (e.g., “Whereas Ea kills Apsu.”).
10. Comma splice. (“Ea kills Apsu, Marduk kills Tiamat.” = semicolon needed after “Apsu”)
11. Using “however” as if it were “but.” (= another type of comma splice)
12. Run-on sentence. (“Ea kills Apsu Marduk kills Tiamat.” = semicolon needed after “Apsu”)
13. Possessive error. (“girls bike” for “girl’s bike; “girls bikes” for “girls’ bikes”)
14. Use of pronoun/possessive (he/him/his, she/her, it/its, they/them/their) is unclear/incorrect.
15. Wrong relative pronoun used (“whom” in place of “who” or vice versa).
16. Word choice or phrasing is confusing/incorrect.
17. Argument/point that the student is making is either unclear or needs further explanat ion.
18. Introductory paragraph lacks a thesis statement.
19. Supporting paragraph lacks a subthesis.
20. Subthesis does not refer in some way to both the modern and the ancient works.
21. Supporting paragraph does not discuss both the modern and the ancient works.
22. Supporting paragraph features a quotation/s from only one of the two works, not both.
23. Supporting paragraph lacks a quotation from either of the two works.
24. Essay as a whole features quotation/s from only one of the two works.
25. Essay as a whole lacks any quotations whatsoever.
26. Supporting paragraph lacks sufficient analysis of a given quotation.
27. Supporting paragraph lacks sufficient analysis of any of the quotations.
28. Essay as whole lacks sufficient analysis of any of the quotations.
29. Student does not explain very well the significance of a particular quotation.
30. Quotation is irrelevant and does not support the subthesis.
31. Quotation is not introduced correctly by student (with either a comma or colon).
32. Quotation from work lacks quotation marks.
33. Some important points from the works (that would support thesis/subthesis) are left out.
34. Paragraph contains extraneous/irrelevant information that does not support thesis/subthesis.
35. Essay is too repetitive (i.e., it only makes one or two points over and over).
36. Paragraph is just summary and contains no analysis of the works.
37. Essay as a whole just summarizes works and does not analyze them.
38. Paragraph has fewer than five sentences.
39. Essay has fewer than three.
Small passing
The poem deals with a mother grieving the loss of her stillborn baby in apartheid-era South Africa, where she is told by others that her suffering is insignificant compared to the struggles faced by black South Africans. However, the black mothers she encounters understand her loss and are able to comfort her, recognizing that any mother's grief at losing a child is a tragedy, regardless of race. They tell her that her baby's death was not a "small passing" and invite her to grieve with them.
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1. The document discusses various poetic devices used in several poems, including similes, metaphors, personification, repetition, and imagery.
2. Specific devices are identified in the poems "My Mother at Sixty-Six" by Kamala Das, "Keeping Quiet" by Pablo Neruda, and "A Thing of Beauty" by John Keats.
3. The poetic devices in Adrienne Rich's poem "Aunt Jennifer's Tiger" include alliteration, imagery, symbols, and metaphor to represent the oppression of marriage through the imagery of the tiger.
Kamikaze
The poem is about a father who embarked on a kamikaze mission in World War 2 but changed his mind halfway through. He faced a choice between an honorable suicide or living in dishonor as he would be ostracized for not completing his mission. The daughter speculates on why her father turned back, leaving his decision ambiguous. When he returned, the family treated him as if he was dead due to the shame of not fulfilling his duty, and the daughter learned to remain silent like the rest of the family.
PPT By Dr Ramesh Pandu Chavan
This document provides an analysis of the poetry of Kamala Das and other modern Indian woman poets such as Lakshmi Kannan and Imtiaz Dharker. It discusses key themes and imagery in their works. Kamala Das's poetry focuses on themes of female sexuality and revolt against patriarchy through simple language and imagery of the human body. Other poets also explore feminist themes and use nature and river imagery to represent the experiences of women. The document examines the development of imagery and voice in the poetry to accurately reflect the experiences and perspectives of women writers.
Map Woman Analysis
This poem explores how a woman's hometown and past experiences have shaped her identity and left a lasting imprint. The woman's skin is described as a "map" covered with reminders of her life in the form of a birthmark and tattoo. No matter how much she tries to cover or change her skin, she cannot escape where she came from and the memories embedded there. In the end, she sheds her skin completely, realizing her true home is not defined by geography but where she feels most like herself.
12_english_core_notes_flamingo.pdf
The poem discusses the importance of stillness and silence. It suggests taking a moment to:
1. Sit quietly and not speak for 12 seconds, enjoying the strange calm.
2. Stop activities that harm others, like whaling or dangerous work, to reflect.
3. Cease all wars and instead strengthen bonds with others through quiet understanding.
Overall, it advocates for periodic silence to gain perspective, appreciate life, and promote peace.
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- 2. KRISHNASRE E .G ENGLISH OPTIONAL
- 4. PROFILE OF THE AUTHOR Kamala Suraiyya (aka Kamala Madhavikutty) (31 March 1934 – 31 May 2009) was a major Indian English poet and literateur and at the same time a leading Malayalam author from Kerala state, South India. Her popularity in Kerala is based chiefly on her short stories and autobiography, while her oeuvre in English, written under the name Kamala Das, is noted for the fiery poems and explicit autobiography. Her open and honest treatment of female sexuality, free from any sense of guilt, infused her writing with power, but also marked her as an iconoclast in her generation. On 31 May 2009, aged 75, she died at a hospital in Pune, but has earned considerable respect in recent years.
- 5. Madhavikutty’s ‘The Tattered Blanket’ exposes the bitter truths of life in a stunningly simple manner .This is one of the brilliant short stories penned by Madhavikutty in Malayalam. Her focus has always been on the tormented female self craving for love. She is concerned with the condition of women and the way in which they are betrayed by society. In ‘The Tattered Blanket’ mother craves for her son’s love. Her son is evergreen in her memory. But she has been overpowered by forgetfulness. She needs a red blanket because the old one is tattered. Here blanket represents the warmth of her son’s love. She actually needs her son’s love. The tattered blanket symbolizes the tattered soul of the mother. Madhavikutty’s stories are a re-affirmation of women, woman reclaimed of body and spirit. In ‘The Tattered Blanket’ Madhavikutty portrays the poignant voice of wounded womanhood against the value systems of a male-dominated society.
- 6. knot/nɒt/ make (something, especially hair) tangled.
- 7. .nod/nɒd/ lower and raise one's head slightly and briefly, especially in greeting, assent, or understanding, or to give someone a signal.
- 8. .irritate/ˈɪrɪteɪt/ make (someone) annoyed or a little angry.
- 9. cover (a roof or a building) with straw or a similar material.
- 10. Shingle /ˈʃɪŋg(ə)l/ a mass of small rounded pebbles, especially on a seashore.
- 11. .Where did Gopi place the briefcase? Gopi placed the briefcase on the verandah. .Why did the mother ask for a blanket? Mother asked for the blanket because her old blanket got tattered.
- 12. Write a poem about your mother.
- 13. Write a review of the story “The Tattered Blanket”