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Oliver Goldsmith was an Irish writer. He was born in 1772. He died in 1774. He was a poet, dramatist and a novelist.. He was educated at Trinity College Dublin. His most famous novel is The Vicar of Wakefield and his most famous play is She Stoops to Conquer. The present poem is an extract from a very long poem The Deserted Village.  This poem is a simple picture of a village school master. The school was in a small village at Lissoy, an Irish village where the poet himself had studied. Mr. Thomas Paddy Byrne was the village school master. As the poet himself was a pupil of this school master, he is able to create a true atmosphere to the poem. The poet remembers a school in his village. The school was situated next to an irregular fence. Tiny little flowers blossomed near it. In the school, a schoolmaster taught. His school was so small.  In fact, he was the only teacher in the school ,and so he ruled the school like a king.  He was an expert teache

The original name of Kamala Das was Madhavi Kutty. She was born in 1934 and died in 2009. She wrote under the pen name of Kamala Das. Kamala Das was married at a very early age. Her husband motivated her to write poems. Her autobiography is called " My Story". She received the Sahitya Akademi Award in 1985. She is called the mother of 'modern English Indian poetry'.  The poem moves around the theme of love, death and loss. The poetess is sad. She is unhappy. She remembers the house of her grandmother. The house is so special to her. It was the same house where she once received love.  However, her grandma died leaving the poetess alone in the world. The house became silent after the death of her grandmother. Nobody lives in the house. Snakes live in the house. The house has a library. The library has many books. But the poetess was so young that she could not read these books. The death of her grandmother was

Ecology by AK Ramanujan The full name of A. K. Ramanujan was Attipate Krishnaswami Ramanujan. He was born on 16 March 1929 in Mysore. He died on 13 July 1993, in Chicago, the US. He was an Indian poet. He was a scholar as well. He wrote in both English  and Kannada .He also taught in the University of Chicago. His poetry shows the traditional Hindu upbringing. He also talks about his experiences in a Western culture. He was awarded the Sahitya Akademi Award in 1999 for his collection of poems, The Selected Poems . He is famous for his notable works like The Striders and the Second Coming. This poem Ecology is from Ramanujan‘s third volume of poems, ‘Second Sight’. It was published in 1986. Ecology - A K Ramanujan The day after the first rain, Monsoon. for years, I would home in a rage, for I could see from a mile away From a mile away, on the way home our three Red Champak Trees OUR three red champak trees had done it again, had burst into flower and given  Mot

An Old Woman by  Arun Kolatkar Poem An old woman grabs hold of your sleeve and tags along. She wants a fifty paise coin. She says she will take you to the horseshoe shrine. You've seen it already. She hobbles along anyway and tightens her grip on your shirt. She won't let you go. You know how old women are. They stick to you like a burr. You turn around and face her with an air of finality. You want to end the farce. When you hear her say, ‘What else can an old woman do on hills as wretched as these?' You look right at the sky. Clear through the bullet holes she has for her eyes. And as you look on the cracks that begin around her eyes spread beyond her skin. And the hills crack. And the temples crack. And the sky falls with a plateglass clatter around the shatter proof crone who stands alone. And you are reduced to so much small change in her hand. Biography : The full name of Arun Kolatkar was Arun Balkrishna Kolatkar. He was a bilingual

William Shakespeare is widely regarded as one of the greatest writers in the English language. He was born on or around 23 April 1564 in Stratford-upon-Avon, the eldest son of John Shakespeare, a prosperous glover and local dignitary, and Mary Arden, the daughter of a wealthy farmer. There are no records of  William’s education , but he probably went to King’s New School – a reputable Stratford grammar school where he would have learned Latin, Greek, theology and  rhetoric  – and may have had a  Catholic upbringing . He may also have seen plays by the  travelling theatre groups  touring Stratford in the 1560s and 70s. At 18, William married Anne Hathaway, and the couple had three children over the next few years. Between about 1590 and 1613, Shakespeare wrote at least 37 plays and  collaborated  on several more. His 17  comedies  include  The Merchant of Venice  and  Much Ado About Nothing . Among his 10  history plays  are  Henry V  and  Richard III . The most

" Leisure"  by William Davies W. H. Davies About the Poet William Henry Davies (1871-1940) was a Welsh poet and writer. A rather rebellious young man, he left Wales for America and lived life as a tramp, taking on odd jobs, begging, and travelling from one place to another. He lost a leg in a train accident and returned to England soon after. He lived in various homeless shelters while self-publishing his first book, The Soul's Destroyer . He eventually gained fame and respect around 1908, when his book The Autobiography of a Super-Tramp caught the attention of George Bernard Shaw. His style is characterised by a love of nature, lyrical simplicity, subtle use of language, and a deep sympathy for human suffering. Some of his best known poems are "Leisure. "The Kingfisher, and "Rich or Poor About the Poem The poem 'Leisure' explores in simple language the poet's idea of what a life well lived should be like. It seems to be an indirect