English Literature

Unit I  Blood-wave:Daya Pawar Daya Pawar Blood-wave My ear pressed to your side Heavy with child, I hear rumours of the ocean.\the waves of blood swelling out From a body fulfilled. The mine nudging the seaward is eager for its first glimpse Of the universe. Fists tight..clenched for a blow, The life small as a fist is aflame with ardour. But you are so desolate…why desolation? Do you fear- As our generations gave lifelong battle Battered by wind and rain Our birthing bed arrayed Under a palm leaf thatch Feasting off gruel Boiled rolling on our cooking fires Do you fear, As our generations grown bull-strong, bull-bumped Pulling the village like a cart, Became lifeless lumps worth mud, he too will be mud? Truly , if he is to be Thus crushed and lifeless Then-remember the Greek Myth?- As soon as the cord is cut Let’s burn, scorch, hire-harden him In leaping flames. This phoenix Feeding on live coals Will brave the powerful skies And all that this nation never offered To you or me- th...

                        1) The Victorian Age                     The Victorian age he Victorian age started when the niece of William IV Victoria became the Queen of England in 1837. The age started with her becoming the Queen of England. The Victorian age ended  a quarter of a century before the queen died. It ended in 1875. But the new literary tendencies could be seen before Victoria became the Queen of England. The most significant was the year 1832. It was the same here in which the first reform bill was introduced. Political ,social and economical changes of the age were also reflected in the literature produced during the period. The Victorian age is also called the age of Tennyson. Tennyson was a great poet. His first two volumes of poems were published two year before the reform bill was passed. From the beginning to 1875 the rule of Queen Victoria in England was k...