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The Five Women Summary

The Five Women CHARACTERS 👩👩👩👩👩FIVE WOMEN                          1. Godhumi                          2. Gomati                          3. Yamuna                          4. Vitasta                          5. Vipasha 👩Arya Subhadra 👩Uttara (Daughter in Law of Arya) 👩Abhimanya (Uttara’s Husband) 👩Draupadi 👩Madraja 👨👨Kauravas & Pandavas 👨Chandals PLACE 👐Kurujangal COMMUNITY ➧Rajavritta Community ➧Janavritta Community NAME OF THE BATTLEFIELD: Dharmayutha Battlefield BACKGROUND      This is a short story which talks about five women; this st...

Toads - Summary and Interpretation

TOADS PHILIP LARKIN 🔑 He was born in the year 1922 🔑 He died in the year 1985 🔑 He was a Librarian , poet and a novelist .   GIST 🔰 The author uses Toads as a metaphor to express his views on the work. 🔰Here we can see that the Toad is actually a frog but the author has used the Toad as a metaphor which represents Work . TOAD – FROG – WORK 🔰 All the people in order to reach the next stage in life they just devote their entire life towards their works – weather they like or not they are going to work in order to achieve their needs. 🔰 Here the author too doesn’t like to do the work at the same time he cannot leave his job. We can see that same thing happens in our every day’s life too.      SUMMARY AND INTERPRETATION At the beginning of the poem we can see that he gives description about his work, he says that his work can be compared to a frog as a frog sits on the same place the same way his job is too. And he has a ques...

The Strange Meeting

  STRANGE MEETING WILFRED OWEN 😎 He has participated in First World War 😎 He had written his poems based on WAR THEMES 😎 He was a famous 20 th Century War Poet 😎 He always highlights on the pains, sufferings, destruction that the war has created. 😎 He was a British Poet   BACKGROUND    👉The author has written the poem in the year 1918 and then it was published in the year 1919; this poem was published posthumously (after the death of the author).   👉The title of the poem Strange Meeting was taken from the poem “The Revolt of Islam” by Shelly. 👉The Poem consists of Imagery, symbols, religious allusions and Metaphor. GIST OF THIS POEM                                       The poem is about the reconciliation between the two soldiers, they fought in the war. After the death they both meet in Hell. Hence the tit...