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DSM 401. Bora Ring. 2027

The poem also describes the disappearance of the hunter. His spear is broken and buried, symbolising the end of the traditional way of life. The memory of the people, whose bodies were once painted for ceremonies, is compared to a dream that the world has breathed in and forgotten. This means that their culture has gradually faded from human memory, just as a dream disappears after we wake up. The people who once travelled freely have now become still, suggesting that their lives and traditions have come to an end. Finally, a person riding a horse stops near the empty Bora Ring. The rider suddenly feels sadness and fear. This feeling is described as “the fear as old as Cain,” referring to the ancient biblical story of Cain and Abel, which is associated with conflict and guilt. The expression suggests a deep feeling of sorrow and guilt over the loss of the Indigenous people, their culture, and their traditional way of life. Overall, the poem expresses sadness over the disappearance of I...
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DSC 401: Sonnet 65. 2027,

Youth sonnets, claiming that the speaker does not believe fully in the immortalising power of his verse; that it is merely literary and ultimately unreal. He treats the "still" in line 14 as wordplay, reading it to mean "dead, unmoving" rather than "perpetual, eternal".[7] There is some scholarly debate over this point, though. Carl Atkins, for example, writes that the reader is "not to take the couplet's 'unless' seriously. We are not expected to have any doubt that the 'miracle' of making the beloved shine brightly in black ink has might. Of course it does - we have been told so before. 'Who can hold back time?' the speaker asks. 'No one, except me,' is the answer".[8] Philip Martin tends toward agreement with Atkins, but refutes the suggestion that the reader is "not to take the couplet's 'unless' seriously," asserting instead that, "the poem's ending is...deliberately and prop...
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DSC 401. Sonnet 18. 2027,

Sonnet 18/ Shall I Compare thee to a summer day 1) what does' Eye Of Heaven' refer to? The expression 'eye of Heaven' refers to the sun. 2) how is the gold complexion of the sun dimmed? The gold complexion of the sun is dimmed by the clouds.. 3) what is meant by 'summer's lease'? The expression' summer's lease' means the duration of the summer. 4) what will make the beauty of the poet's friend eternal? The verse will make the beauty of the poets friend eternal. 5) what shall death not brag of Shakespeare 's sonnet no 18? Death shall not brag about taking the poet's friend into his shade. 6) what does Shakespeare compare his friend to? Shakespeare compares his friend to a summer's day. 7) whose complexion is referred to in Sonnet no 18? The gold complexion of the Sun is referred to in Sonnet no 18. 8)' shall I compare thee to a summer's day' - - does the speaker think the  comparison proper or worthy? The speaker does n...
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DSM 401: Wole Soyinka. 2027,

Born Akinwande Oluwole Babatunde Soyinka 13 July 1934 (age 92) Abeokuta, British Nigeria Citizenship Nigerian Education University College Ibadan University of Leeds (BA) Occupations Playwrightpoetnovelist Spouses  Barbara Dixon ​ ​(m. 1958; div. 1963)​ Olaide Idowu ​ ​(m. 1963; div. 1989)​ Folake Doherty ​(m. 1989)​ Children 8, including Olaokun Relatives Ransome-Kuti family Writing career Period 1950–present Genres Dramatic comedytragedy Notable awards Full list Website wolesoyinka.online Akinwande Oluwole Babatunde Soyinka[1] (Listenⓘ; born 13 July 1934) is a Nigerian writer, playwright, and poet. He has written three novels, ten collections of short stories, seven poetry collections, twenty-five plays and five memoirs.[2] He has also written two translated works and many articles and short stories for newspapers and periodicals. He was awarded the 1986 Nobel Prize in Literature for his "wide cultural perspective and poetic overtones fashioning the drama of existence".[3] ...
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DSC 101: Strange Meeting . 26,

Wilfred Owen, a renowned English poet wrote poetry out of the experiences of the warfare in France and the First World War. His poetry can be found in his 27 poems in Mind at War and 19 poems in Out in the Dark. This poem 'Strange Meeting' is highly dramatic, ironical and touching poem. The scene in the poem is hell. Two dead soldiers meet there by chance. It is a strange meeting at a stranger meeting place. However, this strange meeting refers to the stranger's fate for those who are the innocent victims of the war. The poem w as written in the spring or early summer of 1918 and stands in the forefront of Owen's achievements. Siegfried Sassoon called it Owen's passport to immortality. On the poet's memorial in the grounds of Shrewsbury Abbey is engraved the famous quotation from this poem: "I am the enemy you killed, my friend" the words which continue to re-echo down the years. "Strange Meeting” is a deeply poignant and powerful anti-war poem th...
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DSC 303. Abin Chakraborty. Popular Culture

Abin Chakraborty is Assistant Professor in the Department of English, Chandernagore College, West Bengal. He edits the international peer-reviewed journal, Postcolonial Interventions. This volume provides an overview of popular culture and examines in particular how it represents, influences and even reinvents Indian society. Each chapter outlines key theoretical insights from various fields of study—such as Marxism, gender, sexuality, postcolonialism, postmodernism—and demonstrates how they may be used to understand the ever-expanding domain of popular culture. Examples from global culture as well as contemporary India have been used to further enrich this survey. Popular Culture has thus been prepared to enable Indian students and scholars to comprehensively analyse diverse forms and representations of popular culture from varying theoretical perspectives. Contents: Introduction.1. Structuralist approaches to popular culture. 2. Marxist theories of popular culture. 3. Gender, sexuali...
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DSC 303: The Murder of Roger Ackyrod

Agatha Christie, born in 1890 in Torquay, England, became one of the most prolific and beloved mystery writers of all time. She began writing during World War I and went on to pen over 100 novels, plays and short story collections featuring iconic detectives like Hercule Poirot and Miss Marple. The Murder of Roger Ackroyd is a mystery novel by the British writer Agatha Christie, her third to feature Belgian Hercule Poirot as the lead detective. The novel was published in the UK in June 1926 by William Collins, Sons, having previously been serialised as Who Killed Ackroyd?  The novel was well received from its first publication, and has been called Christie's masterpiece. In 2013, the British Crime Writers' Association voted it the best crime novel ever. It is one of Christie's best-known and most controversial novels, its innovative twist ending having a significant impact on the genre. Howard Haycraft included it in his list of the most influential crime novels ever writte...
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