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My Heart Leaps Up When I Behold- William Wordsworth Summary This poem is composed by William Wordsworth. In this poem, the poet has expressed his feeling about natural beauty of rainbow and recollected an experience of his childhood days. According to this poem, the poet says that his heart begins to beat when he sees a rainbow in the sky. He compares his life with rainbow of the sky. He is standing on the earth as the rainbow in the sky. The poet says that he was born with rainbow because when he was born, it was there and it still remains there. He believes that the rainbow will remain there throughout his life. The poet presents the continuity of life and nature from past to future. In this poem, the rainbow gives the continuation of nature and human life. He really expresses that present is the result of the past and future is the outcome of present. Wordsworth is the worshiper of nature. According to him nature is both God and religion. The paradoxical line," the child ...

Speaking Of Children-Barbara Holland Summary "Speaking of Children" is one of humorous essay that explains about that the obstacles that the parents have to face after having many children. The essayist has lightly and joyfully criticized about having more number of children. According to the essayist one child is lake a part of parent body .He is outnumbered. Parents can do anything with him. They can brainwash him or teach him anything they lake .They can take him to anywhere they like as well. But plural children make parents life troublesome .Parents cannot enjoy their holiday freely. They have to go to the laces of the entertainment for children. The famous writer Barbara Holland has lightly probed the subject matter in the essay. She has told that they have to rapidly change their flat for a better school for their children. In others word parents have to move from their own life to their children life. Thus, with own child parents can live in their own way bu...

Look At A Tea Cup-Patricia Hampel Summary Look at a Teacup, written by Patricia Hampl, is a complicated and quite motivating essay which shows the distinction between the traditional norms, notions and dogmas with the new ideology of modern world. There is generation gap between the old and new. The writer is the speaker of the essay who says that her mother had bought a teacup in 1939. The highly decorated but plain looking cup is the major concern of the essay. Numerous ideas are connected and concerned with the tea cup, so it is the memento of entire events of the past. The speaker gives the specific emphasis to the teacup and its elation to art and architecture of the Mid-Twentieth century. The writer further associates the tea cups with the historic events, esp. in the time of Hitler and during the Second World War. Then, the speaker praises the tea cup, its charm and pictures of flowers that are painted in the teacup. The every discussion between the speaker and her mo...

Worn Path-Eudora Welty Summary A black old woman named as Phoenix Jackson is the central character of the story. It was the month of December and she was walking slowly with a cane (stick). She covered her head with a red rag (torn-out cloth). She was speaking to herself as she was tapping her way; it is a kind of soliloquy (speaking oneself) in the story. She talked and addressed the wild animals, insects, birds, trees and bushes. She even addressed the fearful wild animal to go out from her way. As she crossed the pinewoods, she reached in the stream (river) and crossed the bridge and became over-confident that she had not become so much old and had plenty of energy inside her. After that she had taken a short rest. But in the same time, she visualized a flash of dream when a small boy offered her a cake. She moved her hand in the air. She crossed the way by creeping under the barbed (cutting and pointed) wire. On the way she considered the scarecrow as a ghost and she shou...

The Three Day Blow-Ernest Hemingway Summary “ The Three Days Blow” is a plot less story in a dramatic way. Two friends Nick and Bill meet at Bill’s cottage. The weather is shown violent. There is rain and storm. So, this is an ideal situation to stay inside home. They make fire, burn lots of logs and make themselves warm. They drink different alcohol and go on talking about different topics such as books, fishing, girlfriend, hunting, etc. without any plot,the story ends. The topics of the talk change suddenly from one subject to another. There is no third character. We know a lot about the subject, which go through their conversation only. Bill and Nick have no specific purpose of meetings or talking. The weather creates situation for them. This keeps them inside when they talk about different topics. Hemingway creates situation of drinking so that they can reveal their feelings. The scene moves forward excluding the opening exposition. He talks about the weather- rainfall, sto...

My Hearts Leaps Up When I Hold Behold Summary “My Heart Leaps Up When I Behold”is a poem written by a famous nature poet William Wordsworth. In this poem, the poet recollects/remembers an experience of his childhood days and gives his emotion and feelings a meaning. The poet also expresses his love towards nature. He feels great joy when he sees a rainbow in the sky. He used to enjoy a lot when he saw the rainbow in the sky in his childhood. He hopes he will still get pleasure at seeing the rainbow when he becomes old and if such feeling stops in the future he wishes to die. According to the poet, child is the father of man because childhood is the beginning of the manhood. In other words, the qualities of the grown up men are all derived from childhood. At last, the poet wishes that his remaining days would be bound by his love to nature. A paradox is a statement containing opposite ideas that make it unlikely although it may be true. The above statement is paradoxical in ...

The Poplar Field - W.COWPER Summary William Cowper gave up his public career for a life of retirement in rural area and exclusively, devoted his later life in writing poetry. His love towards nature in rural life is also visible in the poem “The Poplar Field”, which is remarkable for his celebration for the rural and nostalgic tone. The poem is a result of the poet’s second visit to the same landscape, which he had visited 12 years ago. It was the bank of river Ouse, which was filled with tall poplar trees. It provided shade to the poet. There used to blow cool breeze and the melodious song of black birds which had entertained the poet. But now the trees are cut and are fallen on the ground. It cannot provide shade to anyone nor there is cool breeze blowing. The black birds have flown away in search of new shelter and therefore, the poet cannot listen to their sweet songs anymore. By looking this degraded situation of the same landscape, the poet becomes very sad. The poe...

THE NIGHTMARE LIFE WITHOUT FUEL- Isaac Asimov Summary “The Nightmare Life Without Fuel” is an essay, which depicts the life of this world in coming future when the fuel resources will have reduced from their source. The main thrust of this essay is: what is going to happen if we do not conserve the world’s natural resources. Asimov focuses on a specific problem that will arise by the lack of fuels. This whole world is run by different resources such as petrol, diesel, water, wood, etc. We cannot imagine this world without the use of fuel. In comparison to the past days, we are now facing the problem of scarcity of fuel resources. Earlier these resources were found in large quantity and life style was easier. As the fuel resources were abundantly found, every sector was found running successfully and easily. Factories, industries, transportation, great organizations, etc. were in proper condition. People didn’t have problem of scarcity of fuel resources. But slowly and ...

Unchopping A Tree-W.S. Merwin Summary This essay is written by W.S. Marwin. In this essay, the writer has shown the impossibility of reversing the ruined environment. This essay persuades the readers not to chop the trees. He wants to show how difficult to bring things back in earlier position. This essay consists of two parts. One is the directive part, where the writer describes the entire process of putting back a chopped tree. The second part consists of the more serious message he wants to give. According to the writer, unchopping a tree is impossible task. We should not take back to the chopped tree. The second part consists of the more serious message he wants to give. The writer tells us how to labor hard to make a chopped tree alive again. He has given all advices for the purpose of preservation against deforestation. It is too much difficult for joining after it is fallen down. The writer says that we have to join all broken parts of the tree and make the tree stand a...

Keeping the things whole-Mark strand Summary The poem Keeping Things Whole is taken from Selected Poems (1980). The poet pleads for wholeness against the usual fragmentation that goes on in life. The poet believes in whole part and not in partial. He knows the value of each and every part of nature to present nature as whole. He tries to know the value of each and every small and small constituents of nature to continue the wholeness of nature. The poet indirectly pleads human beings to fill the gaps in the nature if they separate the parts of nature. The poet indirectly pleads human beings to keep nature whole by conserving its every small parts in every small part in every nook and corner. The poem deals with two separate things of anything, which are part and whole. The nature has small parts small parts. It is divided into the separate elements. He has lost himself in the field. He is losing himself everywhere. The poet parts the air forward but it becomes whole behin...

OOPS ! HOW'S THAT AGAIN ? - Roger Rosenblatt Summary This essay describes the mistakes people make when speaking, and the reasons why they make these mistakes. The mistakes are divided into categories, for example slips of the tongue, faux pas, mistranslation and spoonerisms. Slips of the tongue are common mistakes where the speaker says one thing when they mean to say another. Usually a faux pas occurs when a person says something that he or she thinks is harmless but it actually has a meaning that will upset some people. Mistranslations are mistakes made when words in one language are translated badly into another language. Spoonerisms occur when a person mixes up the letters of the words they are saying. The author gives examples of each type of mistakes being made by a famous person. This essay looks at why we make mistakes. Several theories are described. One theory is that mistakes show our inner thoughts. These are the thoughts we have inside us but want to keep secr...

Malini - Rabindranath Tagore SUMMARY Malini is two-act play by Rabindranath Tagore and it is all about love and hatred; religion and dogma of the contemporary Asian society. Malini is the central figure of the play and she is the princess of the palace and lovely daughter of King and Queen. Malini is very different from her early age, who thinks differently. She is different in her thinking as well as attitude than the rest of the members of the royal palace. She opines differently and everyone including King and Queen are surprised due to her feelings. The kingdom is basically rooted on Hindu ideology and doctrine but the princess Malini promotes Buddhism and its ideology. There is the clash between Hinduism and Buddhism in the play. The Brahmins are the Hindu extremist and the Princess Malini is the promoter of Buddhism and its ideology. Malini is isolated from Royal pleasure and happiness and wants to share the pity, sorrows, pain and sufferings of ordinary people as her o...

The Gardener-Rudyard Kipling Summary ‘The Gardener’ ends surprisingly revealing the reality of Helen, the protagonist, and her relationship with Michael. Michael, whom Helen calls nephew, is in reality, her son whose father is unknown throughout the story. The gardener is a mysterious character who does not appear at first and in the middle but only at the last of the story creating confusions in the readers. Helen Turrell conceals (hides) the truth about Michael till the end of the story but she does not show any reaction when the gardener confidently says he will tell where her son lies.The villagers of Hampshire believe Michael to be an unfortunate son of Helen’s late brother, George Turrell and his beloved (not wife). Actually it was not so. She had created a false story about Michael’s parents. Michael was born when Helen was in southern part of France. She had told lies about her trip that she had long troubles. Because of the fear of social stigma she had told an...