Classes VI - X

SUMMARY  This monologue compares the world with a stage in a theatre. Men and women are the actors or players on this stage. Actors playing roles have entrances and exits during a performance. Life also has its entrances and exits- people are born and die and pass in and out of our lives. Just as an actor plays a variety of roles in life, so too do men and women play different roles or pass through different stages or seven ages of their lives. The speech then focuses on the experience of men. However it is also possible to consider how the lives of women might be divided into seven ages or stages. The  first role or stage  is that of an  infant  or baby. The baby cries and whines before vomiting in the arms of his nurse. In the  second stage  of life man plays the role of a small boy or  child . He holds a school bag, has a shiny face and walks as slowly as he can because he does not like school and is reluctant to leave home. The role of the  lover  is the  third stage  of life. He i

  “The Solitary Reaper” is a poem by the English poet William Wordsworth. The poem was inspired by the poet’s trip to Scotland in 1803 with his sister Dorothy Wordsworth. It was first published in 1807. In the poem, the speaker tries—and fails—to describe the song he heard a young woman singing as she cuts grain in a Scottish field. The speaker does not understand the song, and he cannot tell what it was about. Nor can he find the language to describe its beauty. "The Solitary Reaper" is a poem about music: the song a Scottish girl sings as she cuts hay with a sickle. Though the poem’s narrator cannot understand what the girl is actually singing about, the girl’s song sticks with him, its melancholy beauty echoing in his head “long after” its sound has faded. In this way, the poem suggests the ability of art to transcend cultural boundaries and even language itself. Art, in the poem, can communicate feeling or emotion even in the absence of concrete understanding. And yet, at

 1)  Monuments and statues made of concrete and stone can survive the test of time, however, mankind should take measures to preserve it for posterity. Though if left unattended, the monuments and statues can turn into ruins with the passage of time. 2) Time is referred to by the poet as sluttish because it waits for no one, it passes by. We have to learn to value time and that time treats everyone equally. It does not treat rich and poor differently. Time doesn't have special preference, love for an individual and no morals. It just passes by everyone, without any remorse or mercy.  3) The poet says that neither the forces of nature nor the wars can destroy his poetry. I fact, the godly powers of Mars cannot create a dent to the works of literature which has wielded from his pen. He believes that wars have the power to destroy the great structures erected by many powerful leaders of the world but his poems will survive the ravages of war as it will be passed on from generation to

 Summary The narrator meets a traveller from an ancient land which is Egypt. The traveller tells that there is a huge crumbled statue in the desert. The only remaining parts of the statue are two massive legs and a half submerged face in the sand without the upper part of the body i.e., trunkless and made of stone. He further described that the frown and the sneer of cold command indicate that the sculptor understood well the emotions of the king, Ozymandias. The memory of those emotions survives and is stamped on the lifeless statue for the posterity to see. The traveller then tells the author that on the pedestal appear where he he seems to mocks and challenges the other mighty kings by telling them that he is the mightiest of all kings and that they should feel sad and desperate on looking at the grandeur of his kingdom. But the next line itself brings out the irony that nothing besides remains . There is only bare sand that stretches all through the desert. Power, wealth, pride, eg

     5 a) In 1953, Hopper was a favoured young man. Standing six-foot tall, he'd played on the University football team. He was already a hard-charging zone sales manager for a Chemical company. b)  Hooper had met with an accident and was critically ill suffering from a subdural  haemorrhage . He remained on the critical list for a month. After five weeks when the men from his office came to visit him, they told him that they would create a desk job for him at headquarters because they knew his left side was completely paralyzed and he would not be able to move around.  c)  Duke was an extraordinary dog with special qualities, when Duke came from the kennel, he jumped on Chuck and he knew instantly that he was never to jump on him again. From that moment, he took up a post beside master’s bed around the clock. Duke encouraged his master to get up by poking his nose under Chuck’s elbow and lifting it up. He also nudged, needled and snorted. Finally, chuck and duke began walking toge