FINAL TOUCH : II PU ENGLISH

Romeo and Juliet William Shakespeare The play, ‘Romeo and Juliet’, is the best romantic tragedy of Shakespeare. William Shakespeare is considered as the national poet of England. This play has been translated into every major language and is enacted. This poem is in the form of soliloquy, which is extracted from the play. The two noble families of Verona, the Capulets and the Montagues, were staunch enemies. Romeo and Juliet belonged to rival families. Lord Capulet hosted a grand supper. Though Romeo was of Montague’s, he attends the party in disguise to see Rosaline. There he sees Juliet on the dance floor and he is fascinated by her beauty. After the dance he learns that she is the daughter of Lord Capulet. She too feels a prodigious birth of love for him. Romeo glorifies Juliet’s beauty and feels that her beauty surpasses the bright light of the torch in the dark. Romeo uses similes’ to describe the mesmerising beauty of Juliet. He compares Juliet’s beauty to a rich...

  When You Are Old B.Yeats In the poem, 'When You Are Old' by W.B.Yeats, expresses his unrequited love for Maud Gone, a woman who had rejected his love. The poem brings out many contrasts   between physical and inner beauty, true love and attraction, happiness and sadness. These contrasts suggest that physical beauty is not permanent but only true love is constant.  The poem is a love lyric of 12 lines. The poet uses the time frame where he takes his love to the future and asks her to recall her past memories. He does so in order to warn her not to ignore him. He blends the past, present and future. He foresees his future and imagines his beloved had become old with full of grey hair and sleepy eyes , sitting in front of the fire place . Then her asks her to read the book of poems, which he was written by him and imagines her graceful youth and the people who loved her physical beauty and only he had loved her soul, a pilgrim soul questing for a tr...

ON CHILDREN Khalil Gibran The poem On Children by Khalil Gibran offers a critical analysis of the usual expectation of parents about their children and urges them to introspect. The poem On Children is the selection from the work ‘The Prophet’. The poet asks the parents to guide their children with love and care, not to impose their ideas and dreams on them. The poem is in the form of conversation between the mother and the prophet. The central theme of the poem is the children, who do not really belong to parents. It is the fourteen line poem where it enlightens the parents about their children and role as parents. A mother comes to the prophet and asks him to speak about the child. The prophet tells the parent that they are not the owners of their children. They have come to this earth as Life’s longing for itself and are born as sons and daughters and are created by parents. So the parents should not be possessive about their  children.  They ha...

Fill in the blanks with linkers : 1 . ______the old man came to the garden one day walking hundreds of miles, the owner of the garden free and relaxed. _________the owners wife was worried _______her husband became lethargic and shied away from hard work.                                            (but,when,because,after) Ans:after,but,because 2. The General of Monaco asked each of his soldiers to cut the criminal's head. ____ no soldier came forward to do it. _________the ministers of Monaco assembled a Commission. _____, they appointed a committee and a subcommittee. _______ they decided that the best thing would be to alter the death sentence to one of life imprisonment.       (Besides,but,at last,therefore) Ans: but,therefore,besides,atlas...