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The blog November 2026
Study notes, close readings and exam-focused essays on English literature, literary theory and poetry.
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Ted Hughes’ poem “Thrushes” offers a striking exploration of nature’s raw intensity through its vivid portrayal of these seemingly ordinary birds. Written during Hughes’ most productive period in...
Final Solutions (1993) is a play by Mahesh Dattani about communal prejudice in India. During a riot, Ramnik Gandhi's Hindu family shelters two young Muslim men, Javed and Bobby.
What is Atithi by Rabindranath Tagore about? Atithi by Rabindranath Tagore is a short story about Tarapada, a restless young boy who cannot remain tied to one home,...
William A Slumber Did My Spirit Seal, a giant of English Romanticism, wrote poems that strike a chord with deep emotion and philosophical insight often hidden behind simple...
Introduction “Wandering Singers” by Sarojini Naidu captures the essence of nomadic artists who traverse diverse landscapes, unbound by conventional societal structures. This poem, published in Naidu’s collection “The...
"Paper Boats" is a poem by Rabindranath Tagore from The Crescent Moon (1913). A child writes his name and village on paper boats and floats them down the stream, hoping someone in a faraway land will find them.
Rebecca Yarros has captured readers with Onyx Storm, the third book in her Empyrean series. Released in early 2025, this book follows Fourth Wing (2023) and Iron Flame...
Hybridity, in postcolonial theory, means the mixing of cultures that happens when colonizer and colonized meet.
Toru Dutt broke new ground as one of the first Indian poets to write in English and French before she died at just 21 years old. Her masterpiece...
Introduction Bertolt Brecht’s Mother Courage and Her Children is one of the most influential works of modern theater. Written in 1939 during Brecht’s exile from Nazi Germany and...