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An Old Woman

An Old Woman by Arun Kolatkar depicts a very commonplace scene from and the street. But in the poet’s hands it becomes a question w...
An Inspector Calls

An Inspector Calls by J B Priestly is an interesting play which thrills the reader in several different ways. Written in 1912, th...
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LOVE love is not what it is so long as there is a sense lying bleeding white along your presence, sending signa...
Illusion and Reality in Macbeth

Illusion and Reality Illusion as a coroll...
The Shield of Achilles

The Shield of Achilles W. H. Auden’s poem The Shield of Achilles is remarkable for its content, structure and beauty. Though th...
Anna in The Siege

The Siege is a historical novel based on real events. Helen Dunmore makes it very realistic with her peculiar way of non-linear na...
Writing Movie Reviews

Movie is typically a modern-day art form and it encompasses most of the other art forms, like music, literature, fine arts, theatre and ...
The Pursuit of Happyness

19 men in pursuit of sadness A movie is a kind of shadow play and there is a lot hidden in the shadows. For example, the 19 men who had...
Transferred Epithet

The beauty of language is that it allows you to break rules. You are not sentenced for doing so. Then there are figures of speech. Quite i...
Shakespeare on Love

1. Love sought is good, but given unsought is better. 2. Men have died from time to time, and worms have eaten them, but not for ...