This post is a part of my 'Poetry Appreciation' segment wherein every once in a while I share a poem that I like. Today I've chosen Percy Bysshe Shelley's 'Ozymandias'. About Percy Bysshe Shelley: Percy B. Shelley (4 August 1792 - 8 July 1822) is a well known Romantic poet. Some of his poems include … Continue reading Poetry Appreciation: ‘Ozymandias’ by Percy Bysshe Shelley
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Liebster Award
I would like to start this post by thanking carllbatnag @ The Pine-Scented Chronicles for nominating me for this award. Thank you so much! The Liebster Award is a blogging award that gives recognition to bloggers by their fellow bloggers. The Rules Thank the blogger who nominated you and provide a link to their blogAnswer … Continue reading Liebster Award
Borders in The Shadow Lines
The Shadow Lines is a novel by Amitav Ghosh and it interrogates the notion of borders. As implied in the title itself, it shows borders not as concrete but as shadows. This interrogation is done through one of the main characters in the text, the narrator's grandmother, Thamma. Thamma is the narrator's grandmother and a … Continue reading Borders in The Shadow Lines
The ‘Treasures’ in Bessie Head’s ‘The Collector of Treasures’
The short story 'The Collector of Treasures' was published in Bessie Head's collection of short stories - The Collector of Treasures: and other Botswana Village Tales. The story is about a woman named Dikeledi Mokopi who is charged with the murder of her husband, Garesego, and imprisoned. The story starts with her journey to her … Continue reading The ‘Treasures’ in Bessie Head’s ‘The Collector of Treasures’
Poetry Appreciation: ‘Marrying the Hangman’ by Margaret Atwood
Hello! I have decided to add a segment called Poetry Appreciation to my blog. What does this mean? This basically means that every once in a while I will share a poem that I like. Today I've chosen Margaret Atwood's 'Marrying the Hangman'. About Margaret Atwood: Margaret Atwood is a Canadian poet, novelist, teacher, essayist, … Continue reading Poetry Appreciation: ‘Marrying the Hangman’ by Margaret Atwood
Wuthering Heights: Exploring Heathcliff’s Darkness
Emily Bronte's Wuthering Heights (1847) is a tale of tragedy and revenge. Heathcliff, one of the prime characters of the novel, lies at the centre of the tragedy and is the perpetrator of the revenge. His deeds leave no doubt that he is violent, abusive, and cruel. What intrigues me the most about Heathcliff in … Continue reading Wuthering Heights: Exploring Heathcliff’s Darkness
To The Lighthouse: Of Time and Narratives
Virginia Woolf's To The Lighthouse (1927) is a modernist literary classic. One of my favourite things about Woolf's works, and about this novel, in particular, is her use of Stream of Consciousness narrative technique and her treatment of time within it: her art of making one day span over a hundred pages and compress ten … Continue reading To The Lighthouse: Of Time and Narratives
The Search For Meaning in Ionesco’s The Chairs
Absurdist theatre is known for subverting logic and for being, well, absurd. The Chairs is one such play. An absurdist "tragic farce", this play was written by Eugene Ionesco in 1952 and first performed in the same year. The play revolves around an old married couple who live in a house that is surrounded by … Continue reading The Search For Meaning in Ionesco’s The Chairs
‘The Yellow Wallpaper’: Reclaiming Control
Charlotte Perkins Gilman's short story 'The Yellow Wallpaper' first came out in 1892. It offers a sharp critique of the 19th century White American Patriarchal Bourgeois Society by reclaiming the narrative of hysteria that had been used to oppress women and their voices for a long time. This story is one of a woman with … Continue reading ‘The Yellow Wallpaper’: Reclaiming Control
Godot in Times of Coronavirus
"Nothing happens, nobody comes, nobody goes, it's awful!". These are lines from Samuel Beckett's Waiting For Godot and I think that they summarise the current times perfectly. Waiting For Godot was written in a post World War Two world where alienation and despair among people were high and existential angst was a part of life. The play embodies these … Continue reading Godot in Times of Coronavirus
Not So Random Ramblings 