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THE NIGHT OF THE SCORPION Paragraph Format: The poem " The night of the scorpion" is written by Nissim Ezekiel, revolves round the sting of a scorpion that the poet's mother experienced on a rainy night. The poem follows the narrative style of storytelling where an incident is narrated in a free verse having no fixed rhyme scheme. The poem is enriched using various figures of speech such as Alliteration, Antithesis, Hyperbole, Inversion, Metaphor, Onomatopoeia, Oxymoron, Repetition, Simile and transferred Epithet. An example of personification from the poem is "I watched the flame feeding on my mother" as the flame is given the human quality of feeding'. The poem is a first-person account of how a son (the poet) watches helplessly as his mother suffers from a scorpion's sting. The villager's blessing and curses, a holy man's chants and the rational husband's experiments cannot bring relies to the poet's mother. It shows how the behavior o...

 PULLEY Paragraph Format:   The title of the poem is "Pulley" and is written by "George Herbest", a Weish poet who was a priest by profession. The theme of the poem is the relationship between God and man which God would like to preserve. The poet unveils the truth about why human beings are restless and dissatisfied despite having all the things they want. God bestows on man all the world's richest and gist's but holds back the gift of 'rest'. Thus, God creates a pulley of restlessness and draws man back to him using this pulley.     The poem consists of four stanzas of five lines each. The rhyme scheme of the poem is ababa. The poet has used a variety of poetic devices to enrich the poem. The title 'The Pulley' is an example of conceit-an extended metaphor. The poet makes an implied comparison between restlessness and pulley. Pun in the line 'Rest in the bottom lay' also adds appeal to the poem.  Point Format: Title and Poet : T...

 ANIMALS  Paragraph Format:    The title of the poem is "Animals" and is written by "Walt Whitman's a 19th Century American poet. The central idea of the poem is that the poet prefers animals over his fellow human beings. He highlights the attractive qualities of animals as compared to humans and wonders if the humans have dropped the good qualities on the path of evolution and later on animals have picked them up.    The poet finds animals very placid, according to him animal possesses the greatest virtues of love and compassion. The poem carries a message that we must take some good qualities from animals instead whining and complaining the whole time, we must be satisfied with life The poem is written in the form of free verse with no special rhyme scheme/ rhythm. The poet has used the various kinds of figures of speech to stress on his message. Examples are Repetition, Metaphor etc.  Points Format: Title and Poet : The title of the poem is "Ani...

ALL THE WORLD'S A STAGE Paragraph Format:   The title of the poem is 'All the world's a stage' which is an extract from 'Shakespeare's play', As you like it' written by Shakespeare himself. He is one of the renowned poets in English literature, who has written many plays, dramas and poems in his career. He is often called 'England's National poet' and 'The Bard of Avon'. The poem is a free verse with no special uniformity in rhyme scheme. But there is a steady rhythm of five beats in each line, so it is an 'Iambic Pentameter'.    The poet has used various kinds of figures of speech such as Simile, Metaphor, Personification etc. 'Sighing like furnace' - Simile. The central idea of the poem is that just like a character in a play performs their role and make an exit. Our entrance and exit in this world are pre-determined and we have no control over it, but we can do best in our roles. The duration of our role is not impo...

 WHERE THE MIND IS WITHOUT FEAR Paragraph Format:  Where the mind is without fear is a beautiful poem written by Rabindranath Tagore. The poem was written when India was under the British rule. In this poem, the poet appeals to God for political freedom from the British as well as social, educational and economic freedom for the people of India. The poem is a free verse with no special uniformity of rhyme scheme or rhythm.  The poet has used various kinds of figures of speech such as Alliteration, Metaphor, Personification etc., that adds beauty to the poem, especially in the line, "Where the clear stream of reason has not lost its way into the dreary desert sand of dead habits". The poem is a prayer to God. Tagore asks him to awaken his country into a heaven of freedom, where there is a total freedom of good thoughts, good words and good actions. The qualities that the port wants to inculcate in his countrymen are truthfulness, sincerity, wisdom, clear-thinking, hardwork...