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Showing posts with label IX. Show all posts
Friday, 22 November 2013
Friday, 25 October 2013
Class IX Unit - V Guns and Roses - The Colonel’s Ideas (Short Story)
The Colonel’s Ideas (Short Story)
Class IX Unit - V Guns and Roses - General, Your Tank is a Powerful Vehicle (Poem)
General, Your Tank is a Powerful Vehicle (Poem)
Class IX Unit - V Guns and Roses - An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge (Short Story)
An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge (Short Story)
Tuesday, 10 September 2013
Class IX Unit - IV Glimpses of a Green Planet - On the Grasshopper and Cricket (Poem )
John Keats
John Keats was an English Romantic poet. He was born on 31 October 1795. His poems were not generally well received during his life, his reputation grew after his death. Later he became one of the most beloved of all English poets. Today his poems are some of the most popular in English literature.
The poetry of Keats is characterised by sensual imagery, most notably in the series of Odes.
After completing hi basic schooling, Keats registered as a medical student at Guy’s Hospital (now part of King’s College, London) and began studying there in October 1815. In 1816, Keats received his apothecary's licence, which mrade him eligible to practise as an apothecary, physician, and surgeon, but before the end of the year he announced to his guardian that he was resolved to be a poet, not a surgeon.
"Ode to Psyche", "Ode to a Nightingale", "Ode on a Grecian Urn" and "Ode on Melancholy" were some of his famous Odes.
John Keats died in Rome on 23 February 1821 because of tuberculosis and was buried in the Protestant Cemetery, Rome.
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| John Keats' tombstone in Rome |
Class IX Unit - IV Glimpses of a Green Planet - Memories of a Dying River (Article)
M. T. Vasudevan Nair
Popularly known as MT, Madathil Thekkepaattu Vasudevan Nair, was born on 15 July 1933, in Kudallur, a small village in the present day Palakkad district. He is well-known as author, screenplay writer and film director. He is one of the most prolific and versatile writers in modern Malayalam literature. His three seminal novels on life in the matriarchal family in Kerala are ‘Naalukettu’, ‘Asuravithu’ and ‘Kaalam’.
He spent his early days in a village called Punnayurkulam in the present day Thrissur district. Nair completed his schooling from Kumaranelloor High School and obtained a degree in chemistry from Victoria College, Palakkad.
In 2005, India's third highest civilian honour Padma Bhushan was awarded to him. He was also awarded the highest literary award in India, 1995 Jnanpith, for his overall contribution to Malayalam literature. His novel Randamoozham (The Second Turn) is widely credited as his masterpiece.
His first short stories were published in several magazines while he was a youth. The first "Valarthumrugangal", in 1953. It was a short story on the pathetic condition of the artists in circus. The noted collections of his stories are ‘Iruttinte Athmavu’, ‘Olavum Theeravum’, ‘Bandhanam’, ‘Varikkuzhi’, ‘Dare-e-Salam’, ‘Swargam Thurakkunna Samayam’, ‘Vaanaprastham’ and ‘Sherlock’. "Iruttinte Athmavu" ("Creature of Darkness"), one of the most celebrated among his short stories, is the heart wrenching story of a 21-year old man, regarded as a lunatic by everyone and treated abominably. The story reveals the insanity behind the civilised and supposedly sane world.
His most famous novels include ‘Naalukettu’, ‘Manju’, ‘Kaalam’, ‘Asuravithu’ and ‘Randamoozham’. His debut novel ‘Naalukettu’ is a veritable depiction of the situation which prevailed in a typical joint family when its fortunes is on a steady decline.
‘Randamoozham’, widely regarded as the author's masterpiece, retells the story of the Mahabharatha from the point of view of Bhimasena. MT's only novel with a female protagonist (Vimala) is ‘Manj’. In the novel ‘Kaalam’, MT returns to his favourite milieu, the dilapidated joint-family Nair tharawad set against the wider backdrop of the Valluvanadan village in the backdrop of the crumbling matrilineal order of Kerala in a newly independent India. MT wrote ‘Arabipponnu’ along with N. P. Mohammed. MT's latest novel is Varanasi (2002) which is an emotional journey to Varanasi.
MT has authored two books on the craft of writing, ’Kaathikante Panippura’ and ‘Kaathikante Kala’. His articles on various topics and speeches on different occasions have been compiled under the titles ‘Kilivaathililude’, ‘Kannanthalippookkalude Kaalam’, ‘Vakkukalude Vismayam’ and ‘Eekakikalude Sabdam’. ‘Manushyar Nizhalukal’ and ‘Aalkkoottathil Thaniye’ are his travelogues.
He served as an Executive Member of the Kendra Sahitya Akademi. He was the editor of Mathrubhumi periodicals and Chief Editor of Mathrubhumi weekly. On 2 June 1996, he was bestowed with honorary D.Lit degree by the Calicut University.
MT joined the Mathrubhumi Group of Publications in 1956. When he retired from there in 1998, he was their editor of periodicals and Chief Editor of Mathrubhumi weekly. On 2 June 1996, he was bestowed with honorary D.Lit degree by the Calicut University. It was M.T who elevated the screenplay writing as a literary form.
He has directed seven films and written the screenplay for around 54 films. He won the National Film Award for Best Screenplay four times for: Oru Vadakkan Veeragatha (1989), Kadavu (1991), Sadayam (1992), and Parinayam (1994), which is the most by anyone in the screenplay category. MT's screenplays have won social attention for the portrayal of the social and cultural crisis in the contemporary life of Kerala. Some of them are Kanyakumari, Varikkuzhi, Vilkkanundu Swapnangal, Edavazhiyile Poocha Mindappoocha, Akshrangal, Aalkkoottathil Thaniye, Aaroodam etc.
In 1973, M. T. Vasudevan Nair made his directorial debut with ‘Nirmalyam’ which won the National Film Award for Best Feature Film.
Class IX Unit - IV Glimpses of a Green Planet - To Nature (Poem)
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Samuel Taylor Coleridge was an English poet, literary critic and philosopher. He was one of the founders of the Romantic Movement in England and a member of the Lake Poets.
He wrote the poems ‘The Rime of the Ancient Mariner’ and ‘Kubla Khan’, as well as the major prose work Biographia Literaria, a volume composed of 23 chapters of autobiographical notes and dissertations on various subjects, including some incisive literary theory and criticism. His critical work, especially on Shakespeare, was highly influential.
Coleridge was born on 21 October 1772 in the country town of Ottery St. Mary, Devon, England. Samuel's father, the Reverend John Coleridge (1718–1781), was a well-respected vicar of the parish and headmaster of Henry VIII's Free Grammar School at Ottery. After John Coleridge died in 1781, 8-year-old Samuel was sent to Christ's Hospital, a charity school founded in the 16th century in Greyfriars, London, where he remained throughout his childhood, studying and writing poetry. At that school Coleridge became friends with Charles Lamb. From 1791 until 1794, Coleridge attended Jesus College, Cambridge.
In 1795, Coleridge met poet William Wordsworth and his sister Dorothy. Besides the Rime of The Ancient Mariner, he composed the symbolic poem Kubla Khan and the first part of the narrative poem Christabel. In 1798, Coleridge and Wordsworth published a joint volume of poetry, Lyrical Ballads, which proved to be the starting point for the English romantic age.
He died in Highgate, London on 25 July 1834 as a result of heart failure compounded by a lung disorder.
Wednesday, 31 July 2013
Class IX Unit - III Tales of Toil - Follower
Seamus Heaney
Seamus Heaney is an Irish poet, playwright, translator, lecturer and recipient of the 1995 Nobel Prize in Literature. Born at Mossbawn farmhouse between Castledawson and Toomebridge on 13 April, 1939, he now resides in Dublin.
He was the first of nine children. In 1953, his family moved to Bellaghy, a few miles away, which is now the family home.
Heaney initially attended Anahorish Primary School, and when he was twelve years-old, he won a scholarship to St. Columb’s College, a Roman Catholic boarding school situated in Derry. Heaney’s brother, Christopher, was killed in a road accident at the age of four, while Heaney was studying at St. Columb’s. The poems “Mid-Term Break” and “The Blackbird of Glanmore” focus on his brother’s death.
Other awards that Heaney has received include the Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize (1968), the E. M. Forster Award (1975), the PEN Translation Prize (1985), the Golden Wreath of Poetry (2001), T. S. Eliot Prize (2006) and two Whitbread Prizes (1996 and 1999). He has been a member of Aosdána since its foundation and has been Saoi since 1997. He was both the Harvard and the Oxford Professor of Poetry. Heaney's literary papers are held by the National Library of Ireland. On 6 June 2012, he was awarded the Lifetime Recognition Award from the Griffin Trust For Excellence In Poetry.
Poems for Collection
Collection of Poems Highlighting the Labour Power of the People
The People
I recall that man and not two centuries
have passed since I saw him,
he went neither by horse nor by carriage:
purely on foot
he outstripped
distances,
and carried no sword or armour,
only nets on his shoulder,
axe or hammer or spade,
never fighting the rest of his species:
his exploits were with water and earth,
with wheat so that it turned into bread,
with giant trees to render them wood,
with walls to open up doors,
with sand to construct the walls,
and with ocean for it to bear.
I knew him and he is still not cancelled in me.
The carriages fell to pieces,
war destroyed doors and walls,
the city was a handful of ashes,
all the clothes turned to dust,
and he remains to me,
he survives in the sand,
when everything before
seemed imperishable but him.
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‘All will be gone, you will live on,
You ignite life.
You made what is yours.’
So let no one trouble themselves when
I seem to be alone and am not alone,
I am with no one and speak for them all:
Some listen to me, without knowing,
but those I sing, those who do know
go on being born, and will fill up the Earth.
Coromandel Fishers - Sarojini Naidu
Rise, brothers, rise; the wakening skies pray to the morning light,
The wind lies asleep in the arms of the dawn like a child that has cried all night.
Come, let us gather our nets from the shore and set our catamarans free,
To capture the leaping wealth of the tide, for we are the kings of the sea!
No longer delay, let us hasten away in the track of the seagull’s call,
The sea is our mother, the cloud is our brother, the waves are our comrades all.
What though we toss at the fall of the sun where the hand of the sea-god drives?
He who holds the storm by the hair, will hide in his breast our lives.
Sweet is the shade of the coconut glade, and the scent of the mango grove,
And sweet are the sands at the full o’ the moon with the sound of the voices we love;
But sweeter, O brothers, the kiss of the spray and the dance of the wild foam’s glee;
Row, brothers, row to the edge of the verge, where the low sky mates with the sea.
The Workman’s Square Deal
What does the workman want?
He wants his own,
The honest share of what his hands produce,
He craves no charity and begs no bone,
But only asks for freedom from abuse.
He wants fair play and equal rights
And equal chance for all,
And privilege for none to steal or slay
Or force his weaker brother to the wall.
What does the workman want?
He wants his right,
Against the vain traditions of the law,
Against the sophistries of age and might,
Against religion's oft mistaken awe.
The workman wants the reign of commonsense,
He wants the true democracy of man,
Not any patronage nor all pretence,
Will hold him long to any other plan.
The common welfare is the workman's goal,
The common use of all the commonwealth,
The common rights of every common soul.
And common access to the springs of health.
And everyone a worker by and by,
His own employer, his own king and priest,
Nor any rich nor poor, nor low nor high,
When all the world monopolies have ceased.
Work
We work harder and harder for less and less pay
We sweat in their factories from dawn to the end of the day
The threads they have broken are the threads that we weave
The lies they have told us will not be believed
We make more than they can use we get less than we need
The wheels run faster and faster driven by their endless greed
Who owns the hours stolen from us?
The time they have taken will be reclaimed by us
They build their machines shining and new
Machines must be built no matter whose work they will do
The wheel on their leash the computer on their rein
So much human potential burned up in pain
They steal our leisure they steal our youth
They steal our future they tarnish the truth
They are thieves in the night - they’ve even stolen the sun
But we’ll be there waiting the next time they come
പടയാളികള് - വൈലോപ്പിള്ളി
പാതിരാക്കോഴി വിളിപ്പതും കേള്ക്കാതെ
പാടത്തു പുഞ്ചയ്ക്കു തേവുന്നു രണ്ടുപേര്;ഒന്നൊരു വേട്ടുവന്, മറ്റേതവന് വേട്ട
പെണ്ണിവര് പാരിന്റെ പാദം പണിയുവോര്;
ഭൂതംകണക്കിനേ മൂടല്മഞ്ഞഭ്രവും
ഭൂമിയും മുട്ടിപ്പരന്നുനിന്നീടവേ,
തങ്ങളില് തന്നേയടങ്ങി, നിലാവത്തു
തെങ്ങുകള് നിന്ന നിലയ്ക്കുറങ്ങീടവേ,
ഈയര്ദ്ധനഗ്നരാം ദമ്പതിമാര്കളോ
പാടത്തു പുഞ്ചയ്ക്കു പാരണ നല്കയാം.
തേക്കൊട്ട മുങ്ങിയും പൊങ്ങിയും തേങ്ങുമ്പൊ-
ഴീക്കൂട്ടര് പാടുമത്യുച്ചമാം പാട്ടുകള്,
ഗദ്ഗദരുദ്ധമാം രോദനംപോലവേ,
ദുഃഖിതരായി ശ്രവിക്കുന്നു ദിക്കുകള്!
നല്ത്തുലാവര്ഷവും കാത്തിരുന്നങ്ങനെ
പാര്ത്തലം വൃശ്ചികം പാടേ കടന്നുപോയ്.
നാലഞ്ചു തുള്ളിയേ നാകമുതിര്ത്തുള്ളൂ
നാനാചരാചരദാഹം കെടുത്തുവാന്.
വര്ദ്ധിച്ച താപേന വന്മരുഭൂവിലെ-
യധ്വഗര്പോലെത്തുമോരോ ദിനങ്ങളും
പാടത്തെ വെള്ളം കുടിച്ചു വറ്റിക്കയാല്
വാടിത്തുടങ്ങീതു വാരിളം നെല്ലുകള്.
തൈത്തലയെല്ലാം വിളര്ത്തു, മുളകിന്റെ
കൈത്തിരി തീരെക്കൊളുത്താതെ വീണുപോയ്!
കാര്മണ്ഡലത്തെ പ്രതീക്ഷിക്കുമൂഴിയെ-
പ്പാഴ്മഞ്ഞുതിര്ത്തു ഹസിക്കയാം വിണ്ടലം!
ഹാ കഷ്ട,മെങ്ങനെ മര്ത്ത്യന് സഹിക്കുമീ
മൂകപ്രകൃതിതന്നന്ധമാം ക്രൂരത?
ഇപ്പെരും ക്രൂരതയോടു പോരാടുവോ-
രിപ്പൊഴും പുഞ്ചയ്ക്കു തേവുമീ വേട്ടുവര്;
പഞ്ചഭൂതങ്ങളോടങ്കമാടീടുമീ-
പ്പഞ്ചമരത്രേ പെരും പടയാളികള്.
മാലോകര് തുഷ്ടിയാം തൊട്ടിലില്, നിദ്രതന്-
താലോലമേറ്റു മയങ്ങിക്കിടക്കവേ,
തന്ജീവരക്തമൊഴുക്കുന്നു പാടത്തു
തണ്ണീരിലൂടെയിദ്ധീരനാം പുരുഷന്.
കാന്തന്റെ തേരിന് കടിഞ്ഞാണ് പിടിക്കുന്നു
താന്തന്നെ തേവിക്കൊടുക്കുമിപ്പെണ്കൊടി
പാട്ടുകള് പാടിക്കെടുത്തുന്നു തന്വംഗി
കൂട്ടുകാരന്റെ തണുപ്പും തളര്ച്ചയും.
പാടുകയാണിവള് പാലാട്ടുകോമന്റെ
നീടുറ്റ വാളിന്നിണപ്പുഴക്കേളികള്.
ആരാണു വീറോടു പോരാടുമീ രണ്ടു
പോരാളിമാര്കളെപ്പാടിപ്പുകഴ്ത്തുവാന്?
സന്താള്നര്ത്തകര് - ഒ.എന്.വി.
ആടുന്നു സന്താള്നര്ത്തക-
രാടുന്നു, തീ കടയുന്നൊരു
കാടുകളുടെ കരളു മിടിപ്പതു
കാണുന്നു ഞാനെന് മുന്നില്.
ധിംധിം ധിമി ധിം ധിമിധിം..... ദ്രുത-
താളത്തില് തളകള് കുലുങ്ങി-
പ്പാടുമ്പോള്, കാളിമയാര്ന്നൊരു
പാദങ്ങള്, കലപില ചൊല്ലി-
പ്പാറും ചെറുപക്ഷികള്പോ,ലിരു-
പാടുമുലഞ്ഞാടിവരുന്നൂ!
കാരകിലുടലാര്ന്നോരവരെ-
ക്കാണുമ്പോള്, സ്മൃതികളില് വീണ്ടും
കാളിയഫണമുന്മദനര്ത്തന-
മാടുന്നൂ, കാളിന്ദിത്തിര-
യാടുന്നൂ, മിന്നല്ക്കൊടി വന-
മാലയിടും നീലഘനാഘന-
മാടുന്നൂ, തീകടയുന്നൊരു
കാടുകളുടെ കരളു മിടിക്കും
താളം ധിംധിംധിമി ധിംധിമി
താളം ഞാന് മുന്നില് കാണ്മൂ!
മലകളില്നിന്നരുവികള്പോലെ
അവര് താഴേയ്ക്കൊഴുകിവരുന്നൂ.
മുകിലിന് മുലഞെട്ടില്നിന്നും
മഴനീരുകണക്കെവരുന്നൂ.
കുഴലുകള്, പുല്ത്തണ്ടുകള്, ചെണ്ടകള്,
കുടമണികള്, തപ്പുകള്, തളകള്,
ഇടയിടെ വായ്ത്താരികള്, ഇവ ചേര്-
ന്നൊരു പ്രാകൃതമദ്യത്തിന് ചൂടു-
ലഹരി പകര്ന്നൊഴുകി വരുന്നൂ;
സിരകളിലേക്കൊഴുകിവരുന്നൂ!
കാട്ടുകടന്നലുകള് പൊന്മെഴു-
പാത്രങ്ങളില് വാറ്റിയൊരുക്കിയ
പൂവുകള്തന് രക്തംപോലെ,
കാവുകള് തന് കണ്ണീര്പോലെ
കാടുകളുടെ കരളിലിരിക്കും
കാളിക്കകമുരുകിയപോലെ,
അവരൊഴുകിവരുന്നൂ നഗര-
പ്പെരുവഴികള് നടുങ്ങിയുണര്ന്നു
ആടുന്നൂ സന്താള്നര്ത്തക-
രാടുന്നൂ, തീകടയുന്നൊരു
കാടുകളുടെ കരളു മിടിപ്പതു
കാണുന്നു ഞാനെന് മുന്നില്!
Class IX Unit - III Tales of Toil - The Resignation (Short Story)
Munshi Premchand
Premchand was an Indian writer famous for his modern Hindustani literature.
Born Dhanpat Rai Srivastav, "Munshi Premchand",was a novel writer, story writer and dramatist, and he has been referred to as the "Upanyas Samrat" ("Emperor among Novelists") by some Hindi writers. His works include more than a dozen novels, around 250 short stories, several essays and translations of a number of foreign literary works into Hindi.
Premchand was born on 31 July 1880 in Lamhi, a village located near Varanasi (Benares).
When he was 7 years old, Premchand began his education at a madarsa in Lalpur, located around 2½ km from Lamahi. Premchand learnt Urdu and Persian from a maulvi in the madarsa. When he was 8, his mother died after a long illness. His grandmother, who took the responsibility of raising him, died soon after. Premchand felt isolated, as his elder sister had already been married, and his father was always busy with work. His father, who was now posted at Gorakhpur, re-married, but Premchand received little affection from his step-mother. The step-mother later became a recurring theme in Premchand's works.
He took the job of selling books for a book wholesaler, thus getting the opportunity to read a lot of books. He learnt English at a missionary school, and studied several works of fiction. In 1895, he was married at the age of 15, while still studying in the 9th grade. The match was arranged by his maternal step-grandfather. The girl was from a rich landlord family and was older than Premchand, who found her quarrelsome and not good-looking. In 1900, Premchand secured a job as an assistant teacher at the Government District School, Bahraich, at a monthly salary of 20.
Dhanpat Rai first wrote under the pseudonym "Nawab Rai". His first short novel was Asrar e Ma'abid (Devasthan Rahasya in Hindi, "The Mystery of God's Abode"), which explores corruption among the temple priests and their sexual exploitation of poor women. The novel was published in a series in the Benares-based Urdu weekly Awaz-e-Khalk from 8 October 1903 to February 1905.
Sunday, 30 June 2013
Class IX Unit - III Tales of Toil - The Man who Knew Too Much (Short Story)
Alexander Baron
He was a British author and screenwriter. He is best known for his highly acclaimed novel about D-Day entitled From the City from the Plough (1948) and his London novel The Lowlife (1963).Baron was born in Maidenhead on December 4, 1917, and raised in the Hackney district of London to Polish-Jewish immigrant parents. He attended Hackney Downs School.
During the 1930s, with his schoolfriend Ted Willis, Baron was a leading activist and organiser of the Labour League of Youth (at that time aligned with the Communist Party), campaigning against the fascists in the streets of the East End. Baron became increasingly disillusioned with far left politics and finally broke with the communists after the Hitler–Stalin Pact of August 1939.
Baron served in the Pioneer Corps of the British Army during World War II, experiencing fierce fighting in the Italian campaign, Normandy and in Northern France and Belgium. As a pioneer, he was among the first Allied troops to be landed in Sicily, Italy and on D-Day.
He used his wartime experiences as the basis for his three best-selling war novels.[ After the war he became assistant editor of Tribune before publishing his first novel From the City from the Plough (1948). At this time, at the behest of his publisher Jonathan Cape, he also changed his name from Bernstein to Baron.
In the 1950s Baron wrote screenplays for Hollywood, and by the 1960s he had become a regular writer on BBC's Play for Today. He wrote several episodes of the A Family at War series: 'The Breach in the Dyke' (1970), 'Brothers in War' (1970), 'A Lesson in War' (1970), 'Believed Killed' (1971), 'The Lost Ones' (1971), and 'Two Fathers' (1972). Later he became well known for drama serials like Poldark and A Horseman Riding By, and in the 1980s for BBC classic literary adaptions including Ivanhoe, Sense And Sensibility (1981), Jane Eyre (1983), Oliver Twist (1985) and Vanity Fair (1987). He contributed several episodes to Granada Television's The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (1984–1985).
Baron's personal papers are held in the archives of the University of Reading. His wartime letters and unpublished memoirs were used by the historian Sean Longden for his book To the Victor the Spoils, a social history of the British Army between D Day and VE Day. Baron has also been the subject of essays by Iain Sinclair and Ken Worpole.
Since Baron's death on December 6, 1999 his novels have been republished several times, testifying to a strong resurgence of interest among in his work among the reading public as well as among critics and academics.
Class IX Unit II Breaking Barriers - Only Daughter (Memoir)
Sandra Cisneros
She is an American writer best known for her acclaimed first novel The House on Mango Street (1984) and her subsequent short story collection Woman Hollering Creek and Other Stories (1991). She is the recipient of numerous awards including a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship, and is regarded as a key figure in Chicana literature.Sandra Cisneros was born in Chicago, Illinois on December 20, 1954, the third born of seven children.
She grew up as the only daughter in a family of six brothers, which often made her feel isolated, and the constant migration of her family between Mexico and the USA instilled in her the sense of "always straddling two countries ... but not belonging to either culture. Cisneros's work deals with the formation of Chicana identity, exploring the challenges of being caught between Mexican and Anglo-American cultures, facing the misogynist attitudes present in both these cultures, and experiencing poverty.
Cisneros's childhood loneliness was instrumental in shaping her later passion for writing.Cisneros’s one
strong female influence was her mother, Elvira, who was a voracious reader and more enlightened and socially conscious than her father.
Cisneros was awarded a Bachelor of Arts degree from Loyola University Chicago in 1976, and received a Master of Fine Arts degree from the Iowa Writers' Workshop at the University of Iowa in 1978.
Cisneros has held a variety of professional positions, working as a teacher, a counsellor, a college recruiter, a poet-in-the-schools, and an arts administrator, and has maintained a strong commitment to community and literary causes. In 1998 she established the Macondo Foundation, which provides socially conscious workshops for writers, and in 2000 she founded the Alfredo Cisneros Del Moral Foundation, which awards talented writers connected to Texas. Cisneros currently resides in San Antonio, Texas.
Thursday, 30 May 2013
Class IX Unit II Breaking Barriers - Women (Poem)
Louise Bogan
Bogan was able to attend the Girls’ Latin School for five years, which eventually gave her the opportunity to attend Boston University. She left the university to marry Curt Alexander, a corporal in the U.S. Army, but their marriage ended in 1918. Bogan moved to New York to pursue a career in writing, and their only daughter, Maidie Alexander, was left under the care of Bogan’s parents. After her first husband's death in 1920, she left and spent a few years in Vienna, where she explored her loneliness and her new identity in verse. She returned to New York City and published her first book of poetry, Body of This Death: Poems, in 1923, meeting that year the poet and novelist Raymond Holden. They were married by 1925. Four years later, she published her second book of poetry, Dark Summer: Poems, and shortly after was hired as a poetry editor for The New Yorker. However, the past was repeated and the constant struggle between Holden’s self-indulgence and Bogan’s jealousy resulted in their divorce in 1937.
As poetry editor of The New Yorker magazine for nearly 40 years, Bogan played a major role in shaping mainstream poetic sensibilities of the mid-20th Century.
Class IX Unit II Breaking Barriers - Even Past Fifty (Poem)
Shanta Janardan Shelke
Some of her compositions became immortal as songs sung by Marathi greats like Lata Mangeshkar, Asha Bhosale and Kishori Amonkar.
Shanta Shelke was born in Indapur, Pune on October 19, 1922. She was educated in Pune's Sir Parshurambhau College (S. P. College). She completed her M.A. in Marathi and Sanskrit and stood first in Bombay University. During this time, she also won the Na. Chi. Kelkar and Chiplunkar awards.
She spent 5 years working as assistant editor of the weekly Navyug run by Acharya Atre. She then moved to Nagpur to work as a professor of Marathi in Hislop College, Nagpur. She retired after long service from Dayanand College, Mumbai and settled in Pune.
She also served inThe Film Censor Board, The Theatre Examination Board and The Govt. book award. She died on June 6, 2002.
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