15Sep 2018 by admin

Summary of “Growing Old” by Matthew Arnold

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“Growing Old” as the name says is a poem where Arnold beautifully explains how it feels when one grows old. In the beginning of the poem, he gives a wonderful question, ‘How does it feel to grow old?’ He just puts in simple words asking whether it is just loosing beauty, or whether it is loosing the luster of the eye or just loosing the looks? Growing old is far beyond all these is what he says.In the second stanza he asks a few questions which gets related to the internal aging, when compared to the first which says about the external looks. Here he asks whether aging is about the feel of loosing our strength, or is it to feel that each of our limbs getting stiffer and not…
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15Sep 2018 by admin

Summary of “The Brook” by Alfred Lord Tennyson

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Alfred Lord Tennyson was one among the most popular British Poets. He was excellent in writing short lyrics. Tennyson wrote poem right from his teens along with his two elder brothers and it was locally published when Alfred was seventeen.In 1833 he published his second book, which received a lot of criticism and which discouraged Tennyson and made him stay away for more than ten years from another publication.Tennyson used a wide range of subject matter for his poetry which ranged from medieval legends to classical myths, from observation from nature to domestic situations. He was a craftsman, who polished his manuscripts according to time, which very few other poets did. He experimented in adapting the quantitative meters of Greek and Latin poetry into English.The Brook is a poem that…
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