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Letter Writing – 5 Creative Writing – 49 Letter to Collector for library From The villagers of Kumbharapada Kumbharapada Date: To The Collector Khurda District Khurda Subject: Request for financial grant of Rs. 80,000 for starting a library Sir, We are the inhabitants of Srirampur … Read more
The Serpent and the Rope by Raja Rao — Story analysis Reading and enjoying The Serpent and the Rope will be an incomplete effort unless the reader gets to know about the fascinating life of Raja Rao, the author. The footprints of his eventful life … Read more
ICSE English Literature … Chief Seattle’s Speech Background .. The Americans that inhabit the United States of America today were not there before the early eighteenth century, nor was there a single unified country like the United States we see today. After the intrepid Spaniard … Read more
If by Rudyard Kipling Poem … If you can keep your head when all about you Are losing theirs and blaming it on you, If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you, But make allowance for their doubting too; If you can wait … Read more
Freedom by George Bernard Shaw Complete explanation for the non-fiction ‘Freedom’ included in the CBSE Class 12 English book ‘Kaleidoscope’. [Para by para explanation] Freedom, both as a term and as a trait has often been used perfunctorily by scholars and the general people alike. … Read more
Lord Ullin’s Daughter by Thomas Campbell- Analysis The poem, written as a ballad, is about the tragic drowning of a young man and his beloved while trying to escape the wrath of the latter’s father. Lord Ullin is the father of the girl. Being the … Read more
A Prayer for my Daughter by W. B. Yeats A word about Yeats and this poem ‘A Prayer for my daughter’ …. William Butler Yeats (1865-1939) was an illustrious Irish poet, writer and playwright. He was a staunch Irish nationalist who continued to espouse this … Read more
Comprehension Exercise – 9 Creative Writing – 48 Study the passage and answer the questions that follow Passage taken from BBC Cuba has long been renowned for its medical diplomacy – thousands of its doctors work in healthcare missions around the world, earning the country … Read more
Lines Written a Few Miles above Tintern Abbey by William Wordsworth Complete explanation for the poem by William Wordsworth Introduction The full name of the poem is ‘Lines Written a Few Miles above Tintern Abbey, On Revisiting the Banks of the Wye during a Tour. … Read more
Precis (Summary) Writing – 11 Creative Writing – 47 Passage A drop of water fell out of the cloud into the sea, and finding itself lost in such an immensity of fluid matter, broke out into the following reflection: ‘Alas! What an inconsiderable creature am … Read more