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THE ROAD NOT TAKEN...

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                         The Road not Taken       The poem road not taken by forest reveals the philosophy of life and thus, teaches us the art of living. The poet says that whenever in our life we will have lost everything and nothing will remain to lose anymore , at that time we will have everything to gain.      At the same moment we will have two choices.   1.       Either accept all the occurring of our life as faith and spend the remaining part our life in the same condition in grief and sorrow 2.       Or accept all challenges, fight against fortune and go ahead as an optimistic because there is always another tomorrow to make a fresh beginning.     Being a traveler of my life , I have to choose any one of them and I observed that the first path, much travelled by the commoners leads to the common socia...

Wind

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                                            Wind        The poem “wind” by Subramania Bharti portraits the truth & dares of life.   He prays to God not to send the problems and challenges in one’s life at one go. He makes a humble request and says “God please do not send the problems in my life at one go so that I can maintain stability in my life. I am ready to face all the challenges but one by one”. When the poet observes the life of common people at adverse condition, he feels that even God makes fun of weaklings somehow, he always keeps them suffering either economically or mentally or physically or socially. Then the poet encourages to the entire race by saying that unless you made yourself strong, no one will assist you, so let’s make ourself more efficient stronger than before & firm, the poet sets examples of fire, the earthen lamp (...

Poetic Devices & Figures of Speech

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                                                         A POET IS LIMITED in the materials he can use in creating his works: all he has are words to express his ideas and feelings. These words need to be precisely right on several levels at once: •     they must sound right to the listener even as they delight his ear •     they must have a meaning which might have been unanticipated, but seems to be the perfectly right one •     they must be arranged in a relationship and placed on the page in ways that are at once easy to follow and assist the reader in understanding •     they must probe the depths of human thought, emotion, and empathy, while appearing simple, self-contained, and unpretentious Fortunately, the Eng...