ilakkiyam literature

Since there 's no help, come let us kiss and part— Nay, I have done, you get no more of me; And I am glad, yea, glad with all my heart, That thus so cleanly I myself can free. Shake hands for ever, cancel all our vows, And when we meet at any time again, Be it not seen in either of our brows That we one jot of former love retain. Now at the last gasp of Love's latest breath, When, his pulse failing, Passion speechless lies, When Faith is kneeling by his bed of death, And Innocence is closing up his eyes,     —Now if thou wouldst, when all have given him over,     From death to life thou might'st him yet recover.   Introduction Michael Drayton was a contemporary of William Shakespeare, having been born in 1563, a year before Shakespeare. Drayton's Poetry is rarely read nowadays, despite the fact that he wrote a large number of poems, including a long verse travelogue about England. With the notable exception of one sonnet, beginning 'Since there's no he...

     The poem opus was a frank and bold statement made by the poet about his burning physical desire and passion. A heated longing to be with one of  the  opposite sex as the desire kept igniting his feelings he held that to personified desire by her hair and warned her not  to  follow and believe the sense of morality as promised by any gentleman blindly.      He speaks of the traditional marriage that took place in India. In which any the man whom he calls an animal here was chosen to be the husband of a woman. Such a man produce legitimate children as the marriage had been socially approved in the form of rituals and celebrations even if a lady had to break her commitment and leave her lover it was to sin to marry some other person chosen by  her  parents and follow the tradition.      Now, the point here is that charmed by the beauty of a lady in his imagination he is n...

       Ramanujan's poems mostly deal with the conflict between modern, liberal, Western Outlooks, and Conservative Indian thoughts and beliefs rooted in age-old customs practices, and prejudices. His poetry projects the psychological dilemma that the progressive liberal Indian mind goes through which finds it hard to disregard and shun the traditions beliefs customs and culture altogether. Still Another View of Grace is a poem from the collection The Striders published in 1966.      The subject revolves around the conflict between the speaker's burning physical desires for sex on one hand and his deep-rooted conservatism and cultural prejudices. An outcome of his Brahminical family heritage on the other. The poem opens with a striking boldness as the speaker frankly admits of burn with sexual passion. As he hesitates at the thought of consummating his love. His carnal desires from within ask him to throw away man's morals about obtaining physi...

Where are the braves, the face like autumn fruit, Who started at the child from the coloured frontispiece? And monosyllabic chief who spoke with his throat? Where are the tribes, the feathered bestiaries?- Rank Aesop's animals erect and red, with fur on their names to make all live things kin- Chief Running Deer, Black Bear, Old Buffalo Head? Childhood, that wished me Indian, hoped that once after school I'd leave the classroom chalk, the varnish smell, the watered dust of the street, to join the clean outdoors and the Iroquois track. Childhood; but always, - as on a calendar,- There stood that chief, with arms akimbo, waiting the runway mascot paddling to his shore. With what strange moccasin stealth that scene is changed! With French names, without paint, in overalls, their bronze, like their nobility expunged,- the men. Beneath their alimentary shawls sit like black tenets their squaws; while for the tourist's brown pennies scattered at the old church door, the ragged pa...

1 If an old tree-trunk sends out a tender sprout, Will one who knows give it a different name? The old order has just been pruned, No more, An idiot may, perhaps, call it democracy. 2 Bullets chase a poor fellow; bread Eludes his grasp Even in freedom helpless, hapless He Sheep like must submit to one who Kills. Butcher alone has changed; the cut Is as it used to be. 3 Will Hail, hail and public audiences Aught avail? Will mere bits of raw thread ever Dam the wounds? As long as the knife-blade reaches Not the abscess-root Will the commissions remedy the Nation’s cancer, ah? 5 The minister’s doggie frolics up the Sofa sets, Some kiss it some other embrace It. Behold the laborer , ah, still with The rope on his Shoulder, furrows on his Brow, Belly sunk in, heart aburn, liver Heating up. A cool capitalist you, O Chinar! Green you look in spring, turn Bloody in autumn. The empty-bellied poor you lull...

Whose woods these are I think I know. His house is in the village, though; He will not see me stopping here To watch his woods fill up with snow. My little horse must think it queer To stop without a farmhouse near Between the woods and frozen lake The darkest evening of the year. He gives his harness bells a shake To ask if there is some mistake. The only other sounds the sweep Of easy wind and downy flake. The woods are lovely, dark, and deep, But I have promises to keep, And miles to go before I sleep, And miles to go before I sleep. In the poem the poet who stopped by woods on a snowy evening and his feeling at the moment are vividly described. The horse felt puzzled when stopped at the moment, but he didn’t know it was the beauty and darkness of the woods that attracted the master. The persona cherished a deep love for nature, and when surrounded by nature, he felt perfectly contented. Probably he longed to die there, being lost in the bosom of nature. Thinkin...

Introduction:  In this prose Bernard Shaw recalls how he became a successful public speaker. Before taking his public speaking career, he knew nothing about public oration and meetings. When he spoke for the first time, he became nervous and failed in that endeavor. After many efforts he won success in the art of oration. Shaw's experiences in the Zetetical society:  Shaw went to the meeting at Zetetical society with his friend Lecky. It was his first experience. There was a debate going on. He stood up and blabbered something towards the speaker. He was able to estimate his reply as a meaningless one. He felt ashamed of it. So, he joined the society and attended every meeting. At the starting, his speeches were ignored by the members of the society. But, the members gradually started to hear his speeches. He perfected his oration techniques progressively by hard work. Shaw's securing of freedom of speech:  Shaw visited all sorts of meeting held in London. He ...