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    Hunger      Jayanta Mahapatra Jayanta Mahapatra  (born 22 October 1928) is an  Indian English  poet. He is the first Indian poet to win a  Sahitya Akademi  award for English poetry in 1981 . He is the author of poems such as  "Indian Summer"  and  "Hunger" , which are regarded as classics in modern  Indian English literature . He was awarded a  Padma Shri , the fourth highest civilian honour in India in 2009.He returned the award in 2015 to protest against rising intolerance in India. Mahapatra was  into a prominent Odia Christian family.  Mahapatra went to Stewart School in  Cuttack ,  Odisha . He completed his M. Sc. in Physics from Patna University,  Bihar . He began his teaching career as a lecturer in physics in 1949 and taught at various government colleges in Odisha. Mahapatra has authored 27 books of poems, of which seven are in  Odia  and the r...

The World Is Too Much With Us BY WILLIAM WORDSWORTH The world is too much with us; late and soon, Getting and spending, we lay waste our powers;— Little we see in Nature that is ours; We have given our hearts away, a sordid boon! This Sea that bares her bosom to the moon; The winds that will be howling at all hours, And are up-gathered now like sleeping flowers; For this, for everything, we are out of tune; It moves us not. Great God! I’d rather be A Pagan suckled in a creed outworn; So might I, standing on this pleasant lea, Have glimpses that would make me less forlorn; Have sight of Proteus rising from the sea; Or hear old Triton blow his wreathèd horn. William Wordsworth, (born April 7, 1770, Cockermouth, Cumberland, England—died April 23, 1850, Rydal Mount, Westmorland), English poet whose Lyrical Ballads (1798), written with Samuel Taylor Coleridge, helped launch the English Romantic movement. Explanation to the Poem The great poet William Wordsworth is unhappy with t...

Money-Madness BY D.H. LAWRENCE Money is our madness, our vast collective madness. And of course, if the multitude is mad the individual carries his own grain of insanity around with him. I doubt if any man living hands out a pound note with-out a pang; and a real tremor, if he hands out a ten-pound note. We quail, money makes us quail. It has got us down, we grovel before it in strange terror. And no wonder, for money has a fearful cruel power among men. But it is not money we are so terrified of, it is the collective money-madness of mankind. For mankind says with one voice: How much is he worth? Has he no money? Then let him eat dirt, and go cold.– And if I have no money, they will give me a little bread so I do not die, but they will make me eat dirt with it. I shall have to eat dirt, I shall have to eat dirt if I have no money. It is that that I am frightened of. And that fear can become a delirium. It is fear of my money-mad fellow-men. We must have some money to save ...

Success is counted sweetest  BY EMILY DICKINSON Success is counted sweetest By those who ne'er succeed. To comprehend a nectar Requires sorest need. Not one of all the purple Host Who took the Flag today Can tell the definition So clear of victory As he defeated – dying – On whose forbidden ear The distant strains of triumph Burst agonized and clear! Introduction to the Poetess: Emily Elizabeth Dickinson was born in Amherst, Massachusetts. She was born on December 10, 1830. The name of her father was Edward and the name of her mother was Emily (Norcross) Dickinson. At the time of her birth, Emily‟s father was an ambitious young lawyer. He later joined the ailing law practice of his father, Samuel Fowler Dickinson. She attended Mount Holyoke Female Seminary in South Hadley, but only for  one year. Throughout her life, she seldom left her home and visitors were few.  Dickinson‟s poetry was heavily influenced by the Metaphysical poets of seventeenth-century Engla...

Work Brings Solace By APJ ABDUL KALAM   Dr Abdul Kalam was the 11th president of India. He was an aerospace engineer and scientist too. He was born and brought up in Rameswaram, Tamil Nadu. People also call Kalam the Missile Man of India He has made missiles. People also call him People‟s President. Because he was so simple and lived a simple life throughout. Kalam had a vision. He wanted to see India as a developed nation by 2020. He has got several awards, like the Padma Bhushan and the Bharat Ratna. Kalam was known for his inspiring speeches and he loved to talk with the students. He died in 2015.   Who was Von Braun? What made him a cult figure in America?  Kalam has spent all his life learning rocketry. Wernher von Braun was a German rocket scientist .He made the lethal V-2 missile .The missile destroyed London in World War II .But in the final stages of the war Von Braun was captured by the Allied forces. However, instead of giving punishment to Von Bra...

            The Bangle Sellers by Sarojini Naidu Bangle sellers are we who bear Our shining loads to the temple fair... Who will buy these delicate, bright Rainbow-tinted circles of light? Lustrous tokens of radiant lives, For happy daughters and happy wives. Some are meet for a maiden's wrist, Silver and blue as the mountain mist, Some are flushed like the buds that dream On the tranquil brow of a woodland stream, Some are aglow wth the bloom that cleaves To the limpid glory of new born leaves Some are like fields of sunlit corn, Meet for a bride on her bridal morn, Some, like the flame of her marriage fire, Or, rich with the hue of her heart's desire, Tinkling, luminous, tender, and clear, Like her bridal laughter and bridal tear. Some are purple and gold flecked grey For she who has journeyed through life midway, Whose hands have cherished, whose love has blest, And cradled fair sons on her faithful breast, And serves her household in fruitfu...