Found 28 Articles for Class 11

Introduction The poem Ozymandias is one of the most famous creations of P.B. Shelly. This is a poem about the temporariness of human life. A traveller tells the story of a stone statue that he interacted with in the desert. The statue was of the famous king Ozymandias. He was the most powerful king of his time. This poem shows that no matter how powerful a person is or how magnificent a statue is, it all will eventually fall but the stories and art will live forever. Summary The poet meets a traveller who had come from the old ... Read More

Chapter Summary The poem ‘The World is too Much with Us’ by William Wordsworth highlights a part of the materialistic world where a city and its citizens remain busy with jobs, cultures, religions, and ‘innumerable financial obligations’. All these elements generally control the lives of people to an unhealthy degree. Wordsworth in his poem speaks about destroying the boundaries of religions and inequality among peoples. He wished he had bought up a culture that worships every god and reside together united. The poem depicts that a vital portion of humanity is being destroyed as people are busy rushing from one ... Read More

Chapter Summary Mother Tongue is a famous poem written by the poet Padma Sachdev, an acclaimed writer of friction from Jammu, India, who used to write her pieces in Dogri and Hindi. In this poem, the poet conveys her message through a simple conversation. The conversation that helped in this poem is between stem and poet which provides the Padma Sachdev with a quill to write her piece with imagination power and poetic license. Padma Sachdev calls herself the servant of her mistress. Here, the language Dogri has been used to explain the term servant or slave. In this ... Read More

Chapter Summary Ted Hughes created a monologue of a hawk in his poem ‘Hawk Roosting’. The hawk in this poem mentioned itself as the supreme creator and it could kill and eat anything even in its dreams. It sat in the highest branches of the trees to scrutinise its prey from the top. No animal could hide from its gaze and it felt pride about that fact as it mentioned its hooked eyes and feet. It could fly high in the air and face the earth for its inspection. The buoyancy of air and sun ray worked to its advantage ... Read More

Chapter Summary Philip Larkin, in his poem “Coming”, has contrasted the changes in his own life with the changes that occur in nature. The poem starts with a celebratory mood, set on a particular evening during the arrival of spring. As the evening approaches, the surroundings become “serene” and the humming of a “thrust “bird is heard. This humming symbolises the announcement of the arrival of spring and with that, nature coming back to its glorifying roots as a symbol of beauty. Larking while overwhelmed with this soulful appearance of “nature” transcends back to his childhood self. His childhood which ... Read More

Chapter Summary Vikram Seth in his poem "The Tale of Melon City" describes Melon City and its autocracy due to the recklessness of its King. The poem is written with both "humour and irony". The poet mentions the King as the "just and placid King" who is highly concerned about his people as he decides and instructs to build an arch. Many workmen and builders started making an arch and upon finishing it the King was supposed to visit the arch. There, the King faced embarrassment as his crown fell off his head. The angry King commanded to execute the ... Read More

Chapter Summary "The Peacock", written by "Sujata Bhatt", describes the beauty and grace of the bird on its grandeur. The bird is India's national bird and the poet chooses this bird to spread positivity in everyone. The eluding nature and beauty describe that the poet is a worshiper of the beauty of India. The poet represents her love and respect for the country with the help of expressions and symbols in the poem. The poet describes the bird as a male in her poem because of his louder and sharper voice. The voice of the bird is as loud as ... Read More

Chapter Summary “The Ghat of the Only World” presents the story of the author’s friend Shahid Ali. It was presented that he was a talented poet and he provides liberty to live by embracing death with the choice of words. The poet was aware enough that he has not much time on his hand and he gives the author of the story a nostalgic experience by expressing his treasure-trove of enormous life force. The words of Shahid presents the problematic time during his presence in Kashmir as it was his birthplace. The author and Shahid had a friendship for a ... Read More

Chapter Summary William Shakespeare wrote the poem “Let me not to the Marriage of True Minds". The poet explains his notions about the eternity of true love. The poet used many literary devices to make the poem beautiful like, "marriage and minds" the repeated words with similar consonants. The “remove and remover” used in the fourth line of the poem followed the style of alteration. The poet personified "love and times" in his poem to make understand the eternal power of love. The poet used stars as the metaphor for the poem. He wants to tell that a star that ... Read More

Chapter Summary The whole poem centres around the conversation between a house-hunting tenant and a landlady, who is completely disinterested in telling him about the place, rather more interested in the colour of the tenant. The tenant confesses to the landlady at the beginning of the poem itself about his skin colour as he didn’t want to waste any time after the deal about the rent is fixed. The landlady after hearing about his colour becomes silent and what the tenant feared happened. The whole conversation between the two of them is based on the colour of the speaker’s skin ... Read More