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When Autumn came,The Dilemma and The Blind Life

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INDIAN LITERATURE IN TRANSLATION II                           GROUP II 2213312005006 - AYESHA AMBREEN M 2213312005007 - DEEPIKA R 2213312005008 - DHIVYA P 2213312005009 - DIVYADHARSHINI A  2213312005010 - DIVYADHARSHINI S P  “When Autumn Came” is a multi thematic poem written by Faiz Ahmad Faiz- a revolution of Urdu lyrics poet whose poems has been translated into many languages of the world. The poem deals with the tyranny let loose by Autumn on the major constituent of nature namely trees and also on birds dwelling in them. The poet has made an extensive use of certain poetic techniques like personification, symbolism, similes, and metaphors to lay bare the deadening and malignant influence of Autumn on trees and birds. The Autumn itself is personified as a tyrant, unleashing its wrath on, deaf seemingly and dumb animate constituent of Nature i.e., trees and birds stripping the former of their skins...
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HOME COMING AND OLD MAN IN THE LEAF SMOKE

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               AMERICAN LITERATURE                             GROUP II  2213312005006 - AYESHA AMBREEN M 2213312005007 - DEEPIKA R 2213312005008 - DHIVYA P 2213312005009 - DIVYADHARSHINI A 2213312005010 - DIVYADHARSHINI S P                        HOME COMING Robert Lowell (1917-1977) On March 1, 1917, Robert Lowell was born into one of Boston’s oldest and most prominent families. He attended Harvard College for two years before transferring to Kenyon College, where he studied poetry under John Crowe Ransom and received an undergraduate degree in 1940. He took graduate courses at Louisiana State University where he studied with Robert Penn Warren and Cleanth Brooks. Lowell’s first and second books, Land of Unlikeness (Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1944) and Lord Weary’s Castle (Harcourt, Brace ...
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POEMS OF ARUN KOLATKAR AND SUJATHA BHATT. ( GROUP II )

                INDIAN LITERATURE IN ENGLISH -I               LIFE OF ARUN KOLATKAR (DIVYADHARSHINI S P - 2213312005010) Arun Kolatkar was born in 1931 in Kolhapur, Maharashtra, India. He grew up in a traditional patriarchal Hindu extended family'. He was educated at Rajaram High School in Kolhapur, also attending art schools in Kolhapur and Pune, graduating in 1957. He spent several years trying to  make a living before turning to work as an art director and graphic designer for several advertising agencies in Bombay, achieving great success in this field. He wrote prolifically, in both Marathi and English, publishing in magazines and anthologies.His Marathi verse collection Bhijki Vahi won a Sahitya Akademi Award in 2005. His Collected Poems in English, edited by Arvind Krishna Mehrotra, was published in Britain by Bloodaxe Books in 2010. A reclusive figure all his life, he lived without a telephone, and w...
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