Found 28 Articles for Class 11

Chapter Summary Auden begins the poem by mentioning the diverse city they currently live in. Despite the vastness of the country, there is no room for refugees. The speaker and the refugees have a country to live in. They were proud of their country but they cannot live there. The writer uses the metaphor of a yew tree that prospers every spring. The narrator ponders on the aspect that the passports cannot sprout back every spring. The narrator used the term my dear to address other people. The author further pens down the harsh conditions they have to go through ... Read More

Chapter Summary Ode to a Nightingale was written by Keats when he was in an uncomfortable condition of drowsiness. The poet becomes envious of the happiness of the bird and he here longed for a drought of wine. He thought the wine can take him out of himself as well as help him to join with the existence of the bird. Keats was aware of the pain and sorrow of life, aware of the death of young ones, and the sufferings of the old and that were the reason he wants some wine to get rid of the painful ... Read More

Chapter Summary The poet begins the poem with an incident where his father has informed his tenants to vacate their house so they could proceed with the course of demotion. All of the houses except for the ones where the poet resides and a banyan tree that was considered pious by his grandmother were struck down. The trees were also chopped down in the process. Several of the trees there were considered sacred once and had medicinal values were also uprooted and chopped away. The banyan tree, however, posed a problem since it was enormous and strong roots. The ... Read More

Chapter Summary Ajamil and the Tigers is a satiric fable and in this poem, the animals are presented in a form of characters. Fable is considered to be included both the characters of animals as well as mythical. In this form, the animals have given verbal communication and the story with a moral lesson. The present poem describes the story of how Ajamil as well as King of tigers make an agreement. Ajamil is a shepherd here and his sheep are guarded by a trustworthy sheepdog. The effect of this matter is that the tigers are not able ... Read More

Chapter Summary The Summer of the beautiful white horse is a beautiful story that narrates an adventurous tale of two young Armenian boys - Aram and Mourad. These two young kids belonged to the Garoghalanian Family, a part of an Armenian tribe. This tribe was known for their honesty and the clansmen would uphold this morality even in the hardest of scenarios. On a pleasant morning, Mourad bought a white horse to ride. Aram and Murad both were quite poor and could barely fetch two meals a day. Aram was 9 years and Mourad was 13 years old. Aram was ... Read More

Chapter Summary "The address" deals with the pre-war and post-war events in the life of a Jewish family. It talks about a daughter who returns to her home in Holland after the war was over. She went there to look for her mother's belonging after the war. The young lady reached her native spot but she does not get a warm welcome. She followed the address that she had. The house number was 46 and was located in the “Marconi Street”. A woman opened the door but she could not recognise the young girl at her doorstep. She noticed that ... Read More

Chapter Summary Ranga is a young boy who belongs to a small village of Hoshahali in Mysore. He went to Bangalore and got educated in English. When he returned to the village, everybody gathered around his place to check whether the city has grown on him or not. However, to their dismay, Ranga remained the same as he used to be. He greeted everyone with a Namaskar and eventually everyone left. Ranga’s return has sparked a topic of discussion among the villagers and the narrator also finds it a good opportunity to fix Ranga’s marriage. At this moment Ranga is ... Read More

Chapter Summary “For Elkana” is a poem about the lifestyle of the ordinary people of India. This poem was composed by one of the most popular contemporary writers in India Nissim Ezekiel. This poem is written in a simple and picturesque manner which is highly engaging to a reader of any age group. This poem is about a nuclear family of three people, that is, a husband, a wife and their beloved son. The poem begins on a scenic note of an evening in April and everybody sat down in silence till the narrator’s wife brought up the topic of ... Read More

Chapter Summary Patrick Pringle, the writer of the story, tries to evaluate the problems faced by “Albert Einstein” in his school days. This is an extraction of the book “The Young Einstein” and it is called the biography of “Einstein”. The story as well as the entire book provides that Einstein does not have any liking for school. The story starts with an introduction between little Albert and his history teacher. The teacher here asks him about a particular date but Albert does not have any answer to the question and he expresses his unwillingness to memorise the date. According ... Read More

Chapter Summary Poet Nick Middleton wrote the story Silk Road. The story highlights the narrator's journey to Mount Kailash in Silk Road. The narrator wishes that in order to complete his Kora he must visit Mt. Kailash. The author hires Tsetan, the driver, who can drive him up to the mountain and can give him the company. The entire story depicts the author's experience of a journey to Mt. Kailash. He chooses a tough router in order to embark on this pilgrimage journey. The author also takes along Daniel as an acquaintance to chaperon him to Darchen. Throughout the story, ... Read More