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                                                          At Cooloolah                                   Judith Wright The blue crane fishing in Cooloolah’s twilight has finished there longer than our centuries. He is the certain heir of lake and evening, And he will wear their colour till he dies ; but I’m a stranger, come of a conquering people. I cannot share his calm, who watch his lake, being unloved by all my eyes delight in  and make uneasy, for an old, murder’s sake. Those dark-skinned people who ones named Cooloolah  knew that no land is lost or own by wars, for earth is spirit; the invaders feet will tangle in nets there and his blood be thinned by fears. Riding at noon and ninety years ago, my grandfather was beckoned by a ghost a black acc...

  10 MAR 2020 HIND SWARAJ OF GANDHI4 MIN READ Tags History Source : The Hindu Manifest Pedagogy; Hind Swaraj is the foundational text of Gandhian world view. It’s ideas on economy, polity and society and the nature of satyagraha are very important for both the History and Ethics section.  In news: Chief Justice of India, S.A. Bobde, at International Judicial Conference 2020 cited Gandhi’s Hind Swaraj and observed that “real rights are a result of the performance of duty.” Placing it in syllabus: Hind Swaraj  Dimensions: Context in which it is written  Outline of the central ideas Relevance for today’s India Content: Context in which it is written: Hind Swaraj or Indian Home-Rule is written by Mohandas K. Gandhi in a dialogic form between the Reader and the Editor of a journal/newspaper.  He wrote this book in his native language, Gujarati, while traveling from London to South Africa on board SS Kildonan Castle between November 13 and November 22, 1909.  The...

What we see at the end of the play “As You Like It” all the major characters of the play whether it is Rosalind and Orlando or Celia and Oliver or the Duke Senior and Duke Ferdinand all are get united. Theme of reconciliation and forgiveness can be seen at the end of play. The theme of happy reunion is also an another aspects of this play because we see in the last of the play that the daughter, Miranda meet to his exiled father and also meet with his passionate lover Orlando.at the end of the play Duke Ferdinand realises his follies and to apologise for that with his brother Senior Duke, and the senior duke forgives Orlando. In most of the plays of William Shakespeare we see the happy ending at the end of the play which makes the play a blending of romanticism and these type of plays are known as Romantic comedy, is a creation of William Shakespeare only. Before the end of this play a marriage ceremony has been organised which has been used as a dramatic technique by Shakespeare. Suc...

The theme of innocence can be seen through the eyes of Miranda whereas the theme of experience can be seen through the eyes of Prospero. Miranda  is a pure child of Nature like Wordsworth’s Lucy, “ created of every creature’s best .” She is the only woman character in the play. Her name is the equivalent of ‘the wonderful one’ or ‘the one who causes admiration’ and her name is symbolic of her beauty, innocence and modesty. When the play opens Miranda is almost fifteen and for the previous twelve years, she has lived on the island and has known only Prospero and Caliban.   The striking feature of her character is her “ soft simplicity, her virgin innocence, her total ignorance of the conventional forms and language of society. It is most natural that in a being thus constituted the first tears should spring from compassion, suffering with those that she saw suffer; and that her first sigh should be offered to a love at once fearless and submissive, delicate and fond. She h...

Why doesn't Faustus sign his contract with Lucifer at once? His blood congeals, and he thus runs out of "ink" to sign the contract. Faustus asks: "What might the staying of my blood portend? / Is it unwilling I should write this bill?" (Scene 5, lines 64–65)

The foundation of irreligious criticism is: Man makes religion, religion does not make man. Religion is, indeed, the self-consciousness and self-esteem of man who has either not yet won through to himself, or has already lost himself again. But man is no abstract being squatting outside the world. Man is the world of man – state, society. This state and this society produce religion, which is an inverted consciousness of the world, because they are an inverted world. Religion is the general theory of this world, its encyclopaedic compendium, its logic in popular form, its spiritual point d’honneur, its enthusiasm, its moral sanction, its solemn complement, and its universal basis of consolation and justification. It is the fantastic realization of the human essence since the human essence has not acquired any true reality. The struggle against religion is, therefore, indirectly the struggle against that world whose spiritual aroma is religion. Religious suffering is, at one and the...