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Tagore's divergence from traditional autobiographical - [CC6: POPULAR LITERATURE](https://ellipsis.intertext.in/cc6-popular-literature/) - Lewis Carroll, Through the Looking Glass Agatha Christie, The Murder of Roger Ackroyd Sukumar Ray, Abol Tabol Herge, Tintin in Tibet - [GE 1/CC 1: POETRY AND SHORT STORY](https://ellipsis.intertext.in/ge-1-cc-1-poetry-and-short-story/) - Poetry William Shakespeare: Sonnet 18 William Wordsworth: 'Strange fits of passion' P.B. Shelley: 'To a Skylark' John Keats: 'To Autumn' Short Story James Joyce: 'Araby' Katherine Mansfield: 'The Fly' Joseph Conrad: 'The Lagoon' - [CC 2: EUROPEAN CLASSICAL LITERATURE](https://ellipsis.intertext.in/cc-2-european-classical-literature/) - Group A: Social and intellectual background Group B: Homer, The Iliad (Books I and II) Sophocles, Oedipus the King Group C: Ovid, Selections from Metamorphosis, 'Bacchus' (Book III) Plautus, The Pot of Gold Horace, Satires, I: IV - [CC 12: EARLY 20TH CENTURY BRITISH LITERATURE](https://ellipsis.intertext.in/cc-12-early-20th-century-british-literature/) - Poetry T.S. Eliot, 'The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock' and 'Preludes' W.B. Yeats, 'The Second Coming' and 'No Second Troy' Wilfred Owen, 'Spring Offensive' Fiction Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness D.H. 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Poetry Pablo Neruda, 'Tonight I Can Write' Derek Walcott, 'A Far Cry from Africa' David Malouf, 'Revolving Days' Mamang Dai, 'The Voice of - [The Dichotomy of Memory and History in Rabindranath Tagore's Work](https://ellipsis.intertext.in/the-dichotomy-of-memory-and-history-in-rabindranath-tagores-work/) - Journey through Tagore's unique viewpoint on memory as an 'unseen artist' and history as an unaltered canvas. - [The Canvas of Remembrance: Tagore's Theory of Memory](https://ellipsis.intertext.in/the-canvas-of-remembrance-tagores-theory-of-memory/) - Explore Rabindranath Tagore's fascinating perspective on memory and its alignment with modern cognitive sciences. - [The man of twists and turns: is Odysseus a hero or a liar who got lucky?](https://ellipsis.intertext.in/the-man-of-twists-and-turns-is-odysseus-a-hero-or-a-liar-who-got-lucky/) - Homer never calls Odysseus brave in the poem's opening line. He calls him polytropos — "the man of many turns," or "of many ways," depending on the translator, a word that can mean resourceful and can just as easily mean shifty. Before the Odyssey tells you a single thing that happens to its hero, it - [The other siege: Penelope and the women who run the Odyssey](https://ellipsis.intertext.in/the-other-siege-penelope-and-the-women-who-run-the-odyssey/) - While Odysseus is off blinding cyclopes and resisting witches, the Odyssey quietly runs a second plot back home that is, by any fair measure, just as hard as anything he faces at sea. A woman holds a kingdom together for twenty years against an occupying force of over a hundred suitors, with no army, no - [Odysseus: The Man Who Wouldn't Go Home](https://ellipsis.intertext.in/the-man-who-wouldnt-go-home/) - Troy fell in ten years. Getting home took Odysseus ten more. Somewhere in that gap between "the war is won" and "the hero returns," Homer found the only plot twist that actually matters: winning was the easy part. The Odyssey doesn't open with a war hero sacking a city, and it doesn't open with him - [The Odyssey: the stranger at the door, the ache to go home, and the man who wouldn't say his name](https://ellipsis.intertext.in/the-odyssey-the-stranger-at-the-door-the-ache-to-go-home-and-the-man-who-wouldnt-say-his-name/) - Every stranger who washes up on a shore in the Odyssey is a test. Not of strength, not of cunning — of manners. Long before anyone reaches for a sword, someone reaches for a chair, a meal, a hot bath, and a change of clothes, because in Homer's world, how a person treats a stranger - [Modern Poetry Deck](https://ellipsis.intertext.in/modern-poetry-deck/) - [Email Writing](https://ellipsis.intertext.in/email-writing/) - [Martin Luther King Jr's I HAVE A DREAM](https://ellipsis.intertext.in/martin-luther-king-jrs-i-have-a-dream/) - [Key Victorian Poets](https://ellipsis.intertext.in/key-victorian-poets/) - [How to Read Prose Like a Critic: A Beginner's Guide to Critical Appreciation](https://ellipsis.intertext.in/how-to-read-prose-like-a-critic-a-beginners-guide-to-critical-appreciation/) - You've read the text. You think understood it. Now what? This is the gap most students fall into. You finish reading a piece of prose, sit down to write about it — and what comes out is a summary: "In this passage, the narrator describes his childhood home. He remembers his grandmother. The children listen - [Voice of the Scop: Oral Tradition, Formulaic Verse, and the Manuscript History of Beowulf](https://ellipsis.intertext.in/voice-of-the-scop-oral-tradition-formulaic-verse-and-the-manuscript-history-of-beowulf/) - Before students analyse a single theme in Beowulf, it helps to understand something more basic: how the poem sounded, how it was likely composed, and how astonishingly close it came to being lost forever. Beowulf survives today in exactly one manuscript, damaged by fire, written in a verse form built for the human voice rather - [Pagan Past, Christian Present: Religious Tension in Beowulf](https://ellipsis.intertext.in/pagan-past-christian-present-religious-tension-in-beowulf/) - One of the first puzzles students encounter in Beowulf is a strange doubleness in its worldview. The characters live in a pre-Christian Scandinavian setting, cremate their dead, believe in monsters descended from Cain, and speak constantly of wyrd (fate). Yet the narrator frequently pauses to insert clearly Christian commentary — references to a single God, - [Monsters as Metaphor: Grendel, His Mother, and the Dragon](https://ellipsis.intertext.in/monsters-as-metaphor-grendel-his-mother-and-the-dragon/) - Beowulf is often introduced to students as a "monster poem," and on the surface, that is true — the plot is structured around three fights with three different creatures. But the most influential essay on Beowulf in the twentieth century, J.R.R. Tolkien's 1936 lecture "Beowulf: The Monsters and the Critics," argued that these monsters are - [The Heroic Code: Kinship, Loyalty, and the Warrior Ethos in Beowulf](https://ellipsis.intertext.in/the-heroic-code-kinship-loyalty-and-the-warrior-ethos-in-beowulf/) - When modern readers first meet Beowulf, he can seem larger than life — a man who swims for days, tears a monster's arm off with his bare hands, and announces his own greatness before he has proven it. To a first-time reader this can look like arrogance. But in the world of the poem, this - [Running Backwards: Time, Logic, and Victorian Satire in Through the Looking-Glass](https://ellipsis.intertext.in/running-backwards-time-logic-and-victorian-satire-in-through-the-looking-glass/) - One of the pleasures of reading Lewis Carroll is that his apparent nonsense almost always has a precise target. Behind the jokes about jam and birthdays, behind the backwards memory and the reversed causality, Carroll is consistently satirizing specific features of Victorian life, thought, and culture. Through the Looking-Glass, published in 1871 at the height - [From Pawn to Queen: Alice's Identity and the Anxiety of Growing Up in Through the Looking-Glass](https://ellipsis.intertext.in/from-pawn-to-queen-alices-identity-and-the-anxiety-of-growing-up-in-through-the-looking-glass/) - Alice begins Through the Looking-Glass as a pawn — the least powerful piece on the chessboard — and ends it as a Queen. On the surface, this is a story of achievement and empowerment: a child advancing through the world and arriving, at last, at authority and recognition. But Carroll's treatment of this journey is - [Who Controls the Words? Language, Nonsense, and the Politics of Meaning in Through the Looking-Glass](https://ellipsis.intertext.in/who-controls-the-words-language-nonsense-and-the-politics-of-meaning-in-through-the-looking-glass/) - One of the most famous exchanges in all of English literature happens when Alice meets Humpty Dumpty sitting on his wall. They get into an argument — not about politics or history, but about the meaning of words. Humpty Dumpty insists that a word means exactly what he chooses it to mean, "neither more nor - [The Looking-Glass World: Mirror Logic and Narrative Structure in Through the Looking-Glass](https://ellipsis.intertext.in/the-looking-glass-world-mirror-logic-and-narrative-structure-in-through-the-looking-glass/) - When Lewis Carroll sat down to write the sequel to Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (1865), he did not simply send Alice tumbling down another rabbit hole. Instead, he invented an entirely new structural conceit — one built around the logic of mirrors. Published in 1871, Through the Looking-Glass, and What Alice Found There is a - ["He Comes, Ever Comes": An Essay on Gitanjali 45](https://ellipsis.intertext.in/he-comes-ever-comes-an-essay-on-gitanjali-45/) - The Poem That Refuses to Stand Still There is a peculiar quality to Rabindranath Tagore's forty-fifth poem from Gitanjali (1912) — it feels less like something you read and more like something you hear. Or rather, something you almost hear: a sound at the edge of perception, a footfall just around the corner. The poem - [The Art of Elizabethan Prose: When English Learned to Show Off](https://ellipsis.intertext.in/the-art-of-elizabethan-prose-when-english-learned-to-show-off/) - Before the novel, before the newspaper, before the modern essay — there was a queen, a printing press, and a group of writers who decided that English was worth taking seriously. There is a moment in every language's life when it stops being merely useful and starts being beautiful. For English, that moment arrived somewhere - [Why Jimmy Porter Is Still Shouting: The Relevance of Look Back in Anger Today](https://ellipsis.intertext.in/why-jimmy-porter-is-still-shouting-the-relevance-of-look-back-in-anger-today/) - A Reading Guide | Look Back in Anger by John Osborne Nearly seventy years have passed since John Osborne's play premiered at the Royal Court Theatre. The British Empire, which cast such a long shadow over the play, is largely gone. Class has been reshuffled, though not dissolved. Women's lives have changed enormously. Jazz, which - [Bears, Squirrels, and the Women Jimmy Can't Stop Hurting](https://ellipsis.intertext.in/bears-squirrels-and-the-women-jimmy-cant-stop-hurting/) - A Reading Guide | Look Back in Anger by John Osborne Near the end of Look Back in Anger, there's a scene that is simultaneously tender and deeply troubling. Jimmy Porter and his wife Alison are reconciled. She has miscarried their child. She has come back to him, broken, hollowed out by grief. And instead - [The Ironing Board on Stage: Kitchen Sink Drama and Why It Changed Everything](https://ellipsis.intertext.in/the-ironing-board-on-stage-kitchen-sink-drama-and-why-it-changed-everything/) - A Reading Guide | Look Back in Anger by John Osborne Before 1956, if you bought a ticket to the theatre in London, you could expect a certain kind of experience. The sets would be elegant — a drawing room, a study, a country house. The characters would speak in crisp, received English. The problems - [The Man Who Was Too Angry for England: Jimmy Porter and Post-War Britain](https://ellipsis.intertext.in/the-man-who-was-too-angry-for-england-jimmy-porter-and-post-war-britain/) - A Reading Guide | Look Back in Anger by John Osborne Picture this: it's 1956. The Second World War ended just eleven years ago. Britain fought, won, and came home expecting — what, exactly? A better life? A fairer country? A world where a young man with brains and a university degree could actually get - [Gitanjali 45](https://ellipsis.intertext.in/gitanjali-45/) - by Rabindranath Tagore Have you not heard his silent steps?He comes, comes, ever comes.Every moment and every age, every day and every night he comes, comes, ever comes.Many a song have I sung in many a mood of mind, but all their notes have always proclaimed, “He comes, comes, ever comes.”In the fragrant days of - [The Body as Battlefield: Dopdi's Final Act and What It Means](https://ellipsis.intertext.in/the-body-as-battlefield-dopdis-final-act-and-what-it-means/) - On Resistance, Shame, and the Politics of the Female Body in "Draupadi" Most stories about sexual violence end with the woman diminished — broken, silent, or dead. The violence is the ending. The woman becomes a symbol of what was lost, a wound in the narrative, a reason for the men in her life to - [The Man Who Reads the Wrong Books: Senanayak and the Problem of Understanding](https://ellipsis.intertext.in/the-man-who-reads-the-wrong-books-senanayak-and-the-problem-of-understanding/) - On Power, Knowledge, and the Limits of the Liberal Mind in "Draupadi" Here is a thought experiment. Imagine a professor who spends twenty years studying poverty — reading every book, writing every paper, giving every lecture. They know the statistics, the theory, the historical context. They can hold the perfect conversation about inequality at any - [Two Draupadis, One Story: How a Name Becomes a Political Act](https://ellipsis.intertext.in/two-draupadis-one-story-how-a-name-becomes-a-political-act/) - On Mythology, Memory, and Rewriting in Mahasveta Devi's "Draupadi" Names carry weight. When a parent names a child, they are usually doing two things at once — marking identity and connecting the child to something larger than themselves. A name can be a blessing, a tradition, a story already in progress. But a name can - [Meet Dopdi Mejhen: The Story That Refuses to Be Silenced](https://ellipsis.intertext.in/meet-dopdi-mejhen-the-story-that-refuses-to-be-silenced/) - A Reading Guide to Mahasveta Devi's "Draupadi" There is a certain kind of story that does not let you put it down after the last page. Not because it is comfortable — it isn't — but because it keeps asking questions even after you've closed the book. Mahasveta Devi's short story "Draupadi" is exactly that - [The Chance Syllable: Language, Loss, and the Art of Surviving Translation](https://ellipsis.intertext.in/the-chance-syllable-language-loss-and-the-art-of-surviving-translation/) - There is a phrase near the centre of Mamang Dai's poem that rewards the kind of slow, repeated reading that most poems ask for but few receive: "I am the chance syllable that orders the world." Sit with that for a moment. Chance syllable. Not the chosen word. Not the divinely appointed language. Not the - [The Mountain Has Always Known: Oral Tradition and Sacred Knowledge in Mamang Dai](https://ellipsis.intertext.in/the-mountain-has-always-known-oral-tradition-and-sacred-knowledge-in-mamang-dai/) - Before this poem was a poem, it was something older. That is not quite a figure of speech. When Mamang Dai writes about a mountain speaking, about a shaman laying down his spear to make a sign, about a hawk returning from the west, she is drawing on a body of knowledge that has never - ["Peace Is a Falsity": The Political Mountain in Mamang Dai](https://ellipsis.intertext.in/peace-is-a-falsity-the-political-mountain-in-mamang-dai/) - Nature poems are supposed to be peaceful. That is part of their appeal — you enter them the way you enter a garden, leaving the noise of the world behind. Mountains especially carry this association: they stand above the fray, indifferent to human disputes, their silence a reprieve from the century's racket. Mamang Dai's "The - [Who Is Speaking? The Many Voices of Mamang Dai's "The Voice of the Mountain"](https://ellipsis.intertext.in/who-is-speaking-the-many-voices-of-mamang-dais-the-voice-of-the-mountain/) - Here is the first puzzle Mamang Dai sets for her reader: who, exactly, is talking? The title says the mountain. But read a few lines further and the speaker is "an old man sipping the breeze." A little further still, and the voice belongs to "the woman lost in translation / who survives, with happiness - [The Anchor's Script: Why Preparation Is Not Cheating](https://ellipsis.intertext.in/the-anchors-script-why-preparation-is-not-cheating/) - Here's a question I'd like you to sit with for a moment: when you watch a brilliant anchor — someone who flows through an event with effortless confidence, who cracks a joke at exactly the right moment, who introduces a speaker so well that the room leans forward before that person has even said a - [The Voice as Instrument: A Beginner's Guide to Vocal Modulation](https://ellipsis.intertext.in/the-voice-as-instrument-a-beginners-guide-to-vocal-modulation/) - Imagine you're listening to music. A song where every note is played at exactly the same volume, at exactly the same speed, at exactly the same pitch — for four unbroken minutes. No dynamics. No variation. Just an unbroken wall of identical sound. Unbearable, isn't it? Now consider that this is precisely how most first-time - [Confidence on Stage: Rewriting the Story You Tell Yourself](https://ellipsis.intertext.in/confidence-on-stage-rewriting-the-story-you-tell-yourself/) - There's a story most of us tell ourselves right before we walk onto a stage. It goes something like this: Everyone is watching me. Everyone can see how nervous I am. If I make a mistake, they'll notice. If I forget a word, they'll judge me. They're looking for proof that I don't belong up - [How Narayan Writes: Irony, Symbols, and the Art of the Understated Novel](https://ellipsis.intertext.in/how-narayan-writes-irony-symbols-and-the-art-of-the-understated-novel/) - A Reader’s Guide to Narayan’s Style, Technique, and the Craft of Waiting for the Mahatma When students first read R.K. Narayan, they sometimes mistake his style for simplicity. His sentences are short. His characters are ordinary. He rarely moralises. There are no long philosophical passages or dense lyrical prose. The novel seems to proceed at - [Love, Sacrifice, and the Spinning Wheel: Major Themes in Waiting for the Mahatma](https://ellipsis.intertext.in/love-sacrifice-and-the-spinning-wheel-major-themes-in-waiting-for-the-mahatma/) - From Private Desire to Public Commitment — Narayan’s Most Complex Novel One of the first things readers notice about Waiting for the Mahatma is that Sriram is not a typical political hero. He doesn’t join Gandhi’s movement because he burns with ideological conviction. He joins because he has fallen for Bharati. This is stated openly - [Gandhi on the Page: History, Non-Violence, and the Fictional Mahatma](https://ellipsis.intertext.in/gandhi-on-the-page-history-non-violence-and-the-fictional-mahatma/) - How Narayan Brings India’s Independence Struggle into the World of Malgudi Waiting for the Mahatma is unusual in R.K. Narayan’s career. His other Malgudi novels are largely self-contained: a small town, its comic characters, their everyday dramas. History is mostly background. But this novel, published in 1955, places Mahatma Gandhi himself at its centre — - [Sriram of Malgudi: The Unlikely Hero Who Changed India](https://ellipsis.intertext.in/sriram-of-malgudi-the-unlikely-hero-who-changed-india/) - Understanding the Novel’s Protagonist and the Comedy of Good Intentions At the start of R.K. Narayan’s Waiting for the Mahatma (1955), we meet Sriram: twenty years old, financially comfortable, and doing absolutely nothing with his life. He lives on Kabir Street in the fictional town of Malgudi, looked after by his doting grandmother. He has - [How Dickens Tells the Story: Narrative Technique and Satire in Hard Times](https://ellipsis.intertext.in/how-dickens-tells-the-story-narrative-technique-and-satire-in-hard-times/) - Every author makes choices about how to tell a story — choices about voice, structure, language, and form that are as significant as the story's content. In Hard Times, Dickens makes very particular choices, and understanding them helps us read the novel more fully. This post looks at the tools Dickens uses: his satirical voice, - [Louisa and the Cage of Marriage: Gender and Domesticity in Hard Times](https://ellipsis.intertext.in/louisa-and-the-cage-of-marriage-gender-and-domesticity-in-hard-times/) - Victorian England had a very clear idea of what women were for. They were to be wives, mothers, and domestic managers — the 'angel in the house,' as the poet Coventry Patmore famously called the ideal Victorian woman. They were not expected to have careers, political opinions, or, for the most part, strong desires of - [Coketown and Its People: Class, Labour, and Industrial Society in Hard Times](https://ellipsis.intertext.in/coketown-and-its-people-class-labour-and-industrial-society-in-hard-times/) - Hard Times is set in a fictional industrial town called Coketown — a name that is itself a declaration. 'Coke' refers to the processed coal fuel that powered Victorian factories, and the town it names is defined by its relationship to industry: its smoke, its noise, its endless mechanical repetition. Coketown is not a neutral - [Fact vs. Fancy: The Central Conflict in Hard Times](https://ellipsis.intertext.in/fact-vs-fancy-the-central-conflict-in-hard-times/) - When Charles Dickens published Hard Times in 1854, he was writing in response to a very specific moment in British history — a moment defined by factories, statistics, and a growing faith in measurable progress. The novel's opening scene, in which a schoolmaster named Gradgrind instructs a classroom of children to deal in 'nothing but - [Reason and Its Shadows: Science, Rationalism, and the Occult in The Sign of Four](https://ellipsis.intertext.in/reason-and-its-shadows-science-rationalism-and-the-occult-in-the-sign-of-four/) - Holmes is the voice of reason — but the novel is haunted by what reason cannot explain Sherlock Holmes is, above all else, a rationalist. He believes in evidence, logic, and the power of the trained mind to decode the world. This was not incidental to Doyle's project — it was central. In an era - [Three Portraits: Holmes, Watson, and Morstan in The Sign of Four](https://ellipsis.intertext.in/three-portraits-holmes-watson-and-morstan-in-the-sign-of-four/) - Understanding character as the engine of Victorian detective fiction A mystery is only as compelling as the people at its centre. The Sign of Four gives us three major characters whose personalities are carefully constructed: the brilliant, cold Holmes; the warm, romantic Watson; and the composed, enigmatic Mary Morstan. Together, they form a triangle of different human - [Empire Comes Home: Colonialism and Race in The Sign of Four](https://ellipsis.intertext.in/empire-comes-home-colonialism-and-race-in-the-sign-of-four/) - Reading Doyle's novel as a document of Victorian imperial anxiety When Sherlock Holmes solves a mystery, he restores order. But whose order? And at what cost? The Sign of Four is set in the comfortable drawing rooms of Victorian London, but its roots lie in colonial India — specifically in the 1857 Uprising, the British Raj, and - [The Architecture of Mystery: Plot and Detective Fiction in The Sign of Four](https://ellipsis.intertext.in/the-architecture-of-mystery-plot-and-detective-fiction-in-the-sign-of-four/) - How Conan Doyle built a genre — and what makes this novel tick as a story The Sign of Four (1890) is Arthur Conan Doyle's second Sherlock Holmes novel, and it remains one of the most carefully constructed detective narratives of the Victorian era. Before we analyse it as a cultural document — which it certainly - [Silence by the Ganges: Language, Food, and the Unbridgeable Cultural Divide](https://ellipsis.intertext.in/silence-by-the-ganges-language-food-and-the-unbridgeable-cultural-divide/) - The most devastating scenes in A Bride for the Sahib contain almost no dialogue. In this story, silence is its own form of violence. Two Lunch Boxes The honeymoon begins with an image so precise it functions almost like an emblem for the whole story. Sunny Sen's mother has packed two separate lunch boxes for - [A Market for Brides: Arranged Marriage, Dowry, and Female Erasure in A Bride for the Sahib](https://ellipsis.intertext.in/a-market-for-brides-arranged-marriage-dowry-and-female-erasure-in-a-bride-for-the-sahib/) - The wife in this story has a name — Kalyani — but the story withholds it for a long time. That withholding is the point. The Advertisement Somewhere in the middle of Khushwant Singh's story, tucked between Sen's musings about his colonial education and his irritation with his colleagues, is a small, devastating block of - [The Brown British Gentleman: Colonial Identity in A Bride for the Sahib](https://ellipsis.intertext.in/the-brown-british-gentleman-colonial-identity-in-a-bride-for-the-sahib/) - Khushwant Singh's short story puts a colonial mirror in front of post-independence India — and the reflection is deeply unsettling. Who Is Sunny Sen? At the centre of Khushwant Singh's story is a man defined almost entirely by what he is not. 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Narayan's "Out of Business": Interpretation and Critical Appreciation](https://ellipsis.intertext.in/r-k-narayans-out-of-business-interpretation-and-critical-appreciation/) - Interpretation "Out of Business" is a poignant narrative exploring the themes of economic hardship, the relentless pursuit of hope, and the resilience of the human spirit. The story follows Rama Rao, a once-successful business owner in Malgudi, whose life spirals into despair after his gramophone company collapses. His struggle for employment, exacerbated by his age - [Theme of Hope and Despair in "Out of Business"](https://ellipsis.intertext.in/theme-of-hope-and-despair-in-out-of-business/) - "Out of Business" by R. K. Narayan masterfully explores the fluctuating dynamics of hope and despair, which form the crux of the narrative. 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If it be in the dusk when, like an eyelid's soundless blink,The dewfall-hawk comes crossing - [Break Break Break](https://ellipsis.intertext.in/break-break-break/) - by Lord Tennyson Break, break, break,On thy cold gray stones, O Sea!And I would that my tongue could utterThe thoughts that arise in me. O, well for the fisherman's boy,That he shouts with his sister at play!O, well for the sailor lad,That he sings in his boat on the bay! And the stately ships go - [Crash Course: Dickens to Brontë - The Victorian Complex](https://ellipsis.intertext.in/crash-course-dickens-to-bronte-the-victorian-complex/) - Introduction Hello, literary aficionados! 📚 Welcome back to episode eight of our "Crash Course: A Journey Through the History of English Literature." We've wandered through Romantic landscapes, and now it's time to navigate the bustling streets and twisted narratives of the Victorian era. If you love complex characters and stories that mirror the intricacies of - [CC5: AMERICAN LITERATURE](https://ellipsis.intertext.in/cc5-american-literature/) - Poetry Robert Frost, 'After Apple Picking' Walt Whitman, 'O Captain, My Captain' Sylvia Plath, 'Daddy' Langston Hughes, 'Harlem to be Answered' Edgar Allan Poe, 'To Helen' Novel Ernest Hemingway, The Old Man and the Sea Stories Edgar Allan Poe, 'The Purloined Letter' F. Scott Fitzgerald, 'The Crack-up' William Faulkner, 'Dry September' Drama Arthur Miller, Death - [The Child](https://ellipsis.intertext.in/the-child/) - by Premchand, Translated from Hindi by Anurag Sharma 1 All the servants greeted me from afar, as soon as they saw me. Gangu being the only exception, he never greeted me. He probably expected a palagan [1] salute from me. Everyone said he was a Brahmin. I bet he was because he never touched my - [AEC (ABILITY ENHANCEMENT COURSE)](https://ellipsis.intertext.in/aec-ability-enhancement-course/) - UNIT 1 (POETRY) LORD TENNYSON, BREAK BREAK BREAK THOMAS HARDY: AFTERWARDS RABINDRANATH TAGORE: WHERE THE MIND IS WITHOUT FEAR UNIT 2 (PROSE) R.K. NARAYAN: OUT OF BUSINESS PREM CHAND: THE CHILD MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR: I HAVE A DREAM - [IDC (Semester 1)](https://ellipsis.intertext.in/idc-semester-1/) - Poetry William Shakespeare: Sonnet 18 William Wordsworth: 'Strange fits of passion' P.B. Shelley: 'To a Skylark' John Keats: 'To Autumn' Short Story James Joyce: 'Araby' Katherine Mansfield: 'The Fly' - [Film Festival, August 2023](https://ellipsis.intertext.in/film_fest_rbgc_2023/) - The film festival is organized by the Cinema Club, Rani Birla Girls’ College. During the course of the festival, the films will be screened everyday at 12 PM and will be available to watch till 7th August. 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Were we not weaned till then?But sucked on country pleasures, childishly?Or snorted we in the Seven Sleepers’ den?’Twas so; but this, all pleasures fancies be.If ever any beauty I did see,Which I desired, and got, ’twas but a dream of - [Sonnet 130: My mistress' eyes are nothing like the sun](https://ellipsis.intertext.in/sonnet-130-my-mistress-eyes-are-nothing-like-the-sun/) - By William Shakespeare My mistress' eyes are nothing like the sun;Coral is far more red than her lips' red;If snow be white, why then her breasts are dun;If hairs be wires, black wires grow on her head.I have seen roses damasked, red and white,But no such roses see I in her cheeks;And in some perfumes - [Amoretti LXXV: One Day I Wrote her Name](https://ellipsis.intertext.in/amoretti-lxxv-one-day-i-wrote-her-name/) - By Edmund Spenser One day I wrote her name upon the strand,But came the waves and washed it away:Again I wrote it with a second hand,But came the tide, and made my pains his prey."Vain man," said she, "that dost in vain assay,A mortal thing so to immortalize;For I myself shall like to this decay,And - [Sonnet 18: Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day?](https://ellipsis.intertext.in/sonnet-18-shall-i-compare-thee-to-a-summers-day/) - By William Shakespeare Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day?Thou art more lovely and more temperate:Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May,And summer’s lease hath all too short a date;Sometime too hot the eye of heaven shines,And often is his gold complexion dimm'd;And every fair from fair sometime declines,By chance or nature’s changing - [Marvell's "To His Coy Mistress": Themes and Literary Devices](https://ellipsis.intertext.in/marvells-to-his-coy-mistress-a-critical-look/) - Uncover the themes and literary devices in "To His Coy Mistress," and learn how and why Marvell's words still resonate with us today. 📚💕🥀 - [The Wife of Bath’s Prologue: A Story of Marriage, Power, and Control](https://ellipsis.intertext.in/the-wife-of-baths-prologue-a-story-of-marriage-power-and-control/) - Explore the Wife of Bath's complex relationships and her defiance of patriarchy in this insightful blog post on Chaucer's Canterbury Tales. - [The World of Geoffrey Chaucer and his Literary Innovations](https://ellipsis.intertext.in/the-world-of-geoffrey-chaucer-and-his-literary-innovations/) - Explore the enduring legacy of Chaucer and the vibrant world of Middle Ages literature. Prepare to be captivated! 🎭📖 - [Mary Shelley's Frankenstein: A Cautionary Tale of Science, Ethics, and Artificial Intelligence](https://ellipsis.intertext.in/mary-shelleys-frankenstein-a-cautionary-tale-of-science-ethics-and-artificial-intelligence/) - Dive into Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, exploring its connection to Romanticism, the Industrial Revolution, and the ethical dilemmas of scientific progress. - [To His Coy Mistress](https://ellipsis.intertext.in/to-his-coy-mistress/) - "To His Coy Mistress," a passionate poem by Andrew Marvell, where a lover urges his mistress to seize the moment, reminding us that life is fleeting. - [Seize the Day: Andrew Marvell's 'To His Coy Mistress](https://ellipsis.intertext.in/seize-the-day-andrew-marvells-to-his-coy-mistress/) - Dive into Andrew Marvell's "To His Coy Mistress" and explore the poem's themes, structure, and interpretations. - [Johnson's "London" - An Escape from Corruption and Hypocrisy](https://ellipsis.intertext.in/johnsons-london-an-escape-from-corruption-and-hypocrisy/) - Discover Samuel Johnson's "London," a satirical poem that exposes corruption & hypocrisy in 1738. Join Thales' escape to the tranquil Welsh countryside. - [Rape in Restoration Drama: Aphra Behn's The Rover vs. Male Playwrights](https://ellipsis.intertext.in/rape-in-restoration-drama-aphra-behns-the-rover-vs-male-playwrights/) - Explore the portrayal of rape in Restoration drama, focusing on Aphra Behn's depiction in The Rover compared to the cavalier attitudes of male playwrights. - [Beckett and other Theaters of Absurdity](https://ellipsis.intertext.in/beckett-and-other-theaters-of-absurdity/) - Dive into the uncanny world of Beckett and the Theatre of the Absurd! 🎭💭 - [Gender Politics in 'The Final Solution': A Critical Analysis](https://ellipsis.intertext.in/gender-politics-in-the-final-solution-a-critical-analysis/) - Explore gender politics in "The Final Solution" as Mallika defies norms, reclaims agency, and resists patriarchal violence during Partition. - [From Oppression to Agency: Dynamics of Female Emancipation in "The Final Solution"](https://ellipsis.intertext.in/from-oppression-to-agency-dynamics-of-female-emancipation-in-the-final-solution/) - Explore the complexities of female emancipation during the Partition of India through Manik Bandopadhyay's "The Final Solution." - [Downfall](https://ellipsis.intertext.in/downfall/) - by Sampoorna Sen Mazumdar, Sneha Sarkar, Disha Lahiri, and Sarah Rahaman Shaikh (Students, Semester 2, Rani Birla Girls’ College) My country, where once lied Sovereignty, Secularity and EqualityNow faded in the dust of reality.Why is it so? 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July 13, 1798](https://ellipsis.intertext.in/lines-composed-a-few-miles-above-tintern-abbey-on-revisiting-the-banks-of-the-wye-during-a-tour-july-13-1798/) - By William Wordsworth Five years have past; five summers, with the lengthOf five long winters! and again I hearThese waters, rolling from their mountain-springsWith a soft inland murmur.—Once againDo I behold these steep and lofty cliffs,That on a wild secluded scene impressThoughts of more deep seclusion; and connectThe landscape with the quiet of the sky.The - [The Tyger](https://ellipsis.intertext.in/the-tyger/) - By William Blake from Songs of Experience Tyger Tyger. burning bright,In the forests of the night:What immortal hand or eye,Could frame thy fearful symmetry? In what distant deeps or skies.Burnt the fire of thine eyes!On what wings dare he aspire!What the hand, dare sieze the fire? And what shoulder, & what art,Could twist the sinews of - [The Lamb](https://ellipsis.intertext.in/the-lamb/) - By William Blake from Songs of Innocence Little Lamb who made thee Dost thou know who made theeGave thee life & bid thee feed.By the stream & o'er the mead;Gave thee clothing of delight,Softest clothing wooly bright;Gave thee such a tender voice,Making all the vales rejoice: Little Lamb who made thee Dost thou know who made thee Little Lamb - [ELEGY WRITTEN IN A COUNTRY CHURCHYARD](https://ellipsis.intertext.in/elegy-written-in-a-country-churchyard/) - By Thomas Gray The curfew tolls the knell of parting day, The lowing herd wind slowly o'er the lea,The plowman homeward plods his weary way, And leaves the world to darkness and to me. Now fades the glimm'ring landscape on the sight, And all the air a solemn stillness holds,Save where the beetle wheels his droning flight, And drowsy - [Our Casuarina Tree by Toru Dutt](https://ellipsis.intertext.in/our-casuarina-tree-by-toru-dutt/) - LIKE a huge Python, winding round and roundThe rugged trunk, indented deep with scars,Up to its very summit near the stars,A creeper climbs, in whose embraces boundNo other tree could live. But gallantlyThe giant wears the scarf, and flowers are hungIn crimson clusters all the boughs among,Whereon all day are gathered bird and bee;And oft - [Goblin Market](https://ellipsis.intertext.in/goblin-market/) - by Christina Rossetti 1 Morning and evening 2 Maids heard the goblins cry: 3 "Come buy our orchard fruits, 4 Come buy, come buy: 5 Apples and quinces, 6 Lemons and oranges, 7 Plump unpeck'd cherries, 8 Melons and raspberries, 9 Bloom-down-cheek'd peaches, 10 Swart-headed mulberries, 11 Wild free-born cranberries, 12 Crab-apples, dewberries, 13 Pine-apples, - [The Thief’s Story by Ruskin Bond ](https://ellipsis.intertext.in/the-thiefs-story-by-ruskin-bond/) - I WAS STILL A thief when I met Arun and though I was only fifteen I was an experienced and fairly successful hand.Arun was watching the wrestlers when I approached him. He was about twenty, a tall, lean fellow, and he looked kind and simple enough for my purpose. I hadn’t had much luck of late and thought - [Dream Children: A Reverie](https://ellipsis.intertext.in/dream-children-a-revery/) - by Charles Lamb CHILDREN love to listen to stories about their elders, when they were children; to stretch their imagination to the conception of a traditionary great-uncle or grandame, whom they never saw. It was in this spirit that my little ones crept about me the other evening to hear about their great-grandmother Field, who lived in a - [SEC B2 (General): CREATIVE WRITING](https://ellipsis.intertext.in/sec-b2-general-creative-writing/) - What is creative writing Modes of creative writing Writing Short Story / Poetry Preparing for publication - [Tonight I Can Write by Pablo Neruda](https://ellipsis.intertext.in/tonight-i-can-write-by-pablo-neruda/) - translated by WS Merwin Source: The Guardian Tonight I can write the saddest lines. Write, for example, 'The night is starryand the stars are blue and shiver in the distance.' The night wind revolves in the sky and sings. Tonight I can write the saddest lines.I loved her, and sometimes she loved me too. Through - [L2-1 (General): LANGUAGE, SOCIETY AND PERSONALITY](https://ellipsis.intertext.in/l2-1-general-language-society-and-personality/) - 1. Language and Society a. Shashi Tharoor, 'The Idea of India: India's Mosaic of Multiplicities' b. Ismat Chugtai, 'Roots' c. Ramachandra Guha, 'A Gandhian in Garhwal' 2. Language and Personality a. Louis Fischer, 'Gandhi and the Western World' b. Sisirkumar Ghosh, Makers of Indian Literature: Rabindranath Tagore c. Subal Chandra Mitra, Isvar Chandra Vidyasagar: A - [DSE B1 (General) Texts](https://ellipsis.intertext.in/dse-b1-gen-texts/) - Amitav Ghosh, The Shadow Lines Protiva Basu, 'The Marooned' Manik Bandyopadhyay, 'The Final Solution' Sadat Hasan Manto, 'Toba Tek Singh' Sahir Ludhianvi, 'Twentysixth January', Birendra Chattopadhyay, 'After Death: Twenty Years' Sankha Ghosh, 'Rehabilitation', - [Horace: The Satires (Book I: Satire IV)](https://ellipsis.intertext.in/horace-the-satires-book-i-satire-iv/) - Translated by A. S. Kline Contents Bk I Sat IV: 1-25 Quality not Quantity in Satire please. Bk I Sat IV: 26-62 Is a Satirist truly a poet though? Bk I Sat IV: 63-85 Maybe not, but why treat Satire with suspicion? Bk I Sat IV: 86-106 After all, I’m not the malicious one Bk - [Ovid: Metamorphoses (Book III)](https://ellipsis.intertext.in/ovid-metamorphoses-book-iii/) - Translated by A. S. Kline With illustrations by Hendrik Goltzius (The Netherlands, 1558-1617) courtesy of LACMA and the Rijksmuseum. Contents Bk III: 1-49 Cadmus searches for his sister Europa Bk III: 50-94 Cadmus kills the Dragon Bk III: 95-114 Cadmus sows the Dragon’s teeth Bk III: 115-137 Cadmus founds Thebes Bk III: 138-164 Actaeon returns from the hunt - [The Lagoon](https://ellipsis.intertext.in/the-lagoon/) - by Joseph Conrad The white man, leaning with both arms over the roof of the little house in the stern of the boat, said to the steersman-- "We will pass the night in Arsat's clearing. It is late." The Malay only grunted, and went on looking fixedly at the river. The white man rested his chin - ['Strange fits of passion'](https://ellipsis.intertext.in/strange-fits-of-passion/) - by William Wordsworth Strange fits of passion have I known:And I will dare to tell,But in the lover’s ear alone,What once to me befell. When she I loved looked every dayFresh as a rose in June,I to her cottage bent my way,Beneath an evening-moon. Upon the moon I fixed my eye,All over the wide lea;With - [Sophocles' "OEDIPUS REX"](https://ellipsis.intertext.in/sophocles-oedipus-rex/) - Translated by George Theodoridis Dramatis Personae OEDIPUS (King of Thebes) ATTENTANDS TO OEDIPUS (Later to Creon) JOCASTA (Queen of Thebes) VARIOUS ATTENDANTS TO HER CREON (Jocasta’s brother) TEIRESIAS (A blind prophet) A YOUNG BOY (Teiresias’ guide, Silent) PRIEST HERALD SHEPHERD CHORUS OF THEBAN ELDERS ANTIGONE ISMENE (Antigone and Ismene are daughters and sisters to Oedipus) ✯ ACT ONE In front of King Oedipus’ palace, - [Homer: The Iliad (Book 1 and 2)](https://ellipsis.intertext.in/homer-the-iliad-book-1-and-2/) - Translated by A. S. Kline Contents Book I: The Quarrel Book II: The Catalogue of Ships Book I Bk I: 1-21 Invocation and Introduction Bk I: 22-52 Chryses invokes Apollo Bk I: 53-100 Achilles and Calchas speak Bk I: 101-147 The argument begins Bk I:148-187 Agamemnon and Achilles quarrel Bk I: 188-222 Athene counsels Achilles - [Tutorial: Notepad to Spreadsheet](https://ellipsis.intertext.in/tutorial_txt_to_spreadsheet/) - This tutorial shows how to convert a notepad file, i.e., a TXT file into a multi-column Spreadsheet. - [The Color Purple](https://ellipsis.intertext.in/the-color-purple-study-page/) - Contributed by Gale Group Published 1982 The Color Purple, Alice Walker's third novel, was published in 1982. The novel brought fame and financial success to its author. It also won her considerable praise and much criticism for its controversial themes. Many reviewers were disturbed by her portrayal of black males, which they found unduly negative. When the novel - [The Tragedy of Macbeth](https://ellipsis.intertext.in/the-tragedy-of-macbeth/) - The Tragedy of Macbeth is a 2021 historical thriller film written, directed and produced by Joel Coen, based on the play Macbeth by William Shakespeare. Led by a stellar Denzel Washington, The Tragedy of Macbeth strips the classic story down to its visual and narrative essentials. The film is currently not available for viewing. - [The Color Purple](https://ellipsis.intertext.in/the-color-purple-film/) - The Color Purple is a 1985 American epic coming-of-age period drama film directed by Steven Spielberg and written by Menno Meyjes, based on the Pulitzer Prize-winning 1982 novel of the same name by Alice Walker. It was Spielberg’s eighth film as a director, and marked a turning point in his career, as it was a - [Film Festival, December 2022](https://ellipsis.intertext.in/film_fest_rbgc_2022/) - The film festival is organized by the Department of English, Rani Birla Girls’ College. During the course of the festival, the films will be screened everyday at 12 PM and will be available to watch till 29th Decembere. You can register for the film festival here. To watch the films and to know more about - [Tintin in Tibet](https://ellipsis.intertext.in/tintin-in-tibet-film/) - Tintin in Tibet is the twentieth volume of The Adventures of Tintin, the comics series by Belgian cartoonist Hergé. It was serialised weekly from September 1958 to November 1959 in Tintin magazine and published as a book in 1960. Hergé considered it his favourite Tintin adventure and an emotional effort. Tintin in Tibet was adapted - [The Tintin Project](https://ellipsis.intertext.in/the-tintin-project/) - [CC 1: HISTORY OF LITERATURE AND PHILOLOGY](https://ellipsis.intertext.in/cc-1/) - Group A: Section 1: Unit A Old English Heroic Poetry, Old English Prose and Chaucer Unit B Elizabethan Sonnets, University Wits and Ben Jonson Unit C Restoration Comedy of Manners and Eighteenth-Century Novels Section 2: Unit D Pre-Romantic Poetry and Romantic Non-fiction Prose Unit E Victorian Novel and the Pre-Raphaelites Unit F Modern Novel: Joseph - [Poetry Writing Contest on World Environment Day](https://ellipsis.intertext.in/poetry-writing-contest-on-world-environment-day/) - As part of World Environment Day, 2022, celebrations, a poetry competition was organized. Theme of poetry: EnvironmentWord limit: Within 20 lines Here are the 3 best submissions: Last Breath by Rohini Roy Craving for Some Greens by Ishani Routh Clean and Green – Our Perfect Dream by Sumaiya Khalid - [Clean and Green - Our Perfect Dream](https://ellipsis.intertext.in/clean-and-green-our-perfect-dream/) - by Sumaiya Khalid Student, Semester 4, Rani Birla Girls’ College I ask you what’s gone wrong Do you not like the greens, the honeybees, the clean sea? Plastic bags, piles of rags, methane killing lives Is that what you like? The ecosystem is lost, please protect it at any cost. The Ganges is now black, - [Craving for Some Greens](https://ellipsis.intertext.in/craving-for-some-greens/) - by Ishani Routh Student, Semester 4, Rani Birla Girls’ College Dreaming about ‘daffodils’ roused I from slumber, startled and stunned as if beckoned by a thunder, My ears yearned for the song of the joyous ‘skylark’, or to the glimmering chirps playing in the park; Instead I heard the horns honking out loud, along with - [Last Breath](https://ellipsis.intertext.in/last-breath/) - by Rohini Roy Student, Semester 4, Rani Birla Girls’ College Why must you chop the trees down? What did they ever do to you? Who do you think provides you with oxygen? Filters the air we want only pollute? Are you really in need of more concrete? It is essential to have that designer shed? - [My Last Duchess](https://ellipsis.intertext.in/my-last-duchess/) - BY ROBERT BROWNING FERRARA That’s my last Duchess painted on the wall, Looking as if she were alive. I call That piece a wonder, now; Fra Pandolf’s hands Worked busily a day, and there she stands. Will’t please you sit and look at her? I said “Fra Pandolf” by design, for never read Strangers like you - [Workshop on MLA 7th Edition, Citation, and Plagiarism](https://ellipsis.intertext.in/workshop-on-mla-7th-edition-citation-and-plagiarism/) - During this workshop, participants will learn the 7th Edition of the Modern Language Association's academic writing style. They will gain an understanding of Citation, Plagiarism, Formatting, and other aspects of MLA 7. This 4-day event will take a hands-on approach to ensure that participants are not limited to a merely theoretical understanding of the above - [Orientation Seminar for Semester 1: Introduction to CBCS and the Syllabus](https://ellipsis.intertext.in/orientation-seminar-for-semester-1-introduction-to-cbcs-and-the-syllabus/) - During this orientation seminar, students will be familiarised with the Credit Based Choice System (CBCS). Further, both Honours and General students will be acquainted with the CBCS English syllabus. They will be informed about the different components of the syllabus, the modalities of examinations, etc. This event will be held on 16th December, 2020 on - [Online film screening session: Tintin in Tibet](https://ellipsis.intertext.in/online-film-screening-session-tintin-in-tibet/) - Participants will be shown the animated film Tintin in Tibet, which is an adaptation of Herge's eponymous comic book. The aim of the screening is to enable a discussion of adaptation theory, in general, and the adaptation from comics to film, in particular. The screening will be held on 23rd September via Google Classroom and - [Lecture series on Comics: Sequential art and Tintin](https://ellipsis.intertext.in/lecture-series-on-comics-sequential-art-and-tintin/) - By RB In this lecture series, students will be familiarised with the comics medium. They will be acquainted with the history of comics and how the medium has gradually entered mainstream academia. Subsequently, students will learn about the different forms, features, terms and peculiarities of sequential art. Finally, students will be introduced to the creator - [To Helen](https://ellipsis.intertext.in/to-helen/) - by Edgar Allan Poe Helen, thy beauty is to me Like those Nicean barks of yore, That gently, o'er a perfumed sea, The weary, way-worn wanderer bore To his own native shore. On desperate seas long wont to roam, Thy hyacinth hair, thy classic face, Thy Naiad airs have brought me home To the glory - [O Captain, My Captain](https://ellipsis.intertext.in/o-captain-my-captain/) - by Walt Whitman O Captain! my Captain! our fearful trip is done,The ship has weather’d every rack, the prize we sought is won,The port is near, the bells I hear, the people all exulting,While follow eyes the steady keel, the vessel grim and daring; But O heart! heart! heart! O - ['After Apple Picking'](https://ellipsis.intertext.in/after-apple-picking/) - by Robert Frost My long two-pointed ladder's sticking through a treeToward heaven still,And there's a barrel that I didn't fillBeside it, and there may be two or threeApples I didn't pick upon some bough.But I am done with apple-picking now.Essence of winter sleep is on the night,The scent of apples: I am drowsing off.I cannot - [SEC-A2: BUSINESS COMMUNICATION](https://ellipsis.intertext.in/sec-a2-business-communication/) - This is not a text-oriented paper. - [DSE A2: LITERARY THEORY AND CRITICISM](https://ellipsis.intertext.in/dse-a2-literary-theory-and-criticism/) - Literary Theory Antonio Gramsci, 'The Formation of the Intellectuals' from The Prison Notebooks Virginia Woolf: 'A Room of One's Own' Rabindranath Tagore, 'Nationalism in India', in Nationalism Literary Criticism William Wordsworth, 'Preface' to the Lyrical Ballads S.T. Coleridge, Biographia Literaria, Chapters XIII and XIV T.S. Eliot, 'Tradition and the Individual Talent' - [DSE B1: LITERARY TYPES, RHETORIC AND PROSODY](https://ellipsis.intertext.in/dse-b1-literary-types-rhetoric-and-prosody/) - This is not a text-oriented paper. - ['Spring Offensive'](https://ellipsis.intertext.in/spring-offensive/) - by Wilfred Owen Halted against the shade of a last hill, They fed, and, lying easy, were at ease And, finding comfortable chests and knees Carelessly slept. But many there stood still To face the stark, blank sky beyond the ridge, Knowing their feet had come to the end of the world. Marvelling they stood, - [Preludes](https://ellipsis.intertext.in/preludes/) - T.S. Eliot I The winter evening settles downWith smell of steaks in passageways.Six o'clock.The burnt-out ends of smoky days.And now a gusty shower wrapsThe grimy scrapsOf withered leaves about your feetAnd newspapers from vacant lots;The showers beatOn broken blinds and chimney-pots,And at the corner of the streetA lonely cab-horse steams and stamps. And then the - [The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock](https://ellipsis.intertext.in/the-love-song-of-j-alfred-prufrock/) - by T.S. Eliot S'io credesse che mia risposta fosse A persona che mai tornasse al mondo, Questa fiamma staria senza piu scosse. Ma perciocche giammai di questo fondo Non torno vivo alcun, s'i'odo il vero, Senza tema d'infamia ti rispondo. Let us go then, you and I,When the evening is spread out against the skyLike a patient etherized upon a - [BLISS](https://ellipsis.intertext.in/bliss/) - by Katherine Mansfield ALTHOUGH Bertha Young was thirty she still had moments like this when she wanted to run instead of walk, to take dancing steps on and off the pavement, to bowl a hoop, to throw something up in the air and catch it again, or to stand still and laugh at–nothing–at nothing, simply. - [Advice to Women](https://ellipsis.intertext.in/advice-to-women/) - by Eunice de Souza Keep catsif you want to learn to cope withthe otherness of lovers.Otherness is not always neglect -Cats return to their litter trayswhen they need to.Don't cuss out of the windowat their enemies.That stare of perpetual surprisein those great green eyeswill teach youto die alone. - [How Do I Love Thee?](https://ellipsis.intertext.in/how-do-i-love-thee/) - by Elizabeth Barrett Browning How do I love thee? Let me count the ways.I love thee to the depth and breadth and heightMy soul can reach, when feeling out of sightFor the ends of being and ideal grace.I love thee to the level of every day'sMost quiet need, by sun and candle-light.I love thee freely, - [I cannot live with You](https://ellipsis.intertext.in/i-cannot-live-with-you/) - by Emily Dickinson I cannot live with You – It would be Life – And Life is over there – Behind the Shelf The Sexton keeps the Key to – Putting upOur Life – His Porcelain – Like a Cup – Discarded of the Housewife – Quaint – or Broke – A newer Sevres pleases – Old Ones crack – I could not die – with You – For One must waitTo shut the Other's Gaze down – You – could not – And I – could I - [CBCS English Syllabus (Honours and General)](https://ellipsis.intertext.in/cbcs-english-syllabus-honours-and-general/) - SYLLABUS-CBCS-UG-EnglishDownload - [The Superannuated Man](https://ellipsis.intertext.in/the-superannuated-man/) - By Charles Lamb Sera tamen respexit Libertas. VIRGIL. A Clerk I was in London gay. O’KEEFE. If peradventure, Reader, it has been thy lot to waste the golden years of thy life–thy shining youth–in the irksome confinement of an office; to have thy prison days prolonged through middle age down to decrepitude and silver hairs, - [Ode to a Nightingale](https://ellipsis.intertext.in/ode-to-a-nightingale/) - BY JOHN KEATS My heart aches, and a drowsy numbness pains My sense, as though of hemlock I had drunk,Or emptied some dull opiate to the drains One minute past, and Lethe-wards had sunk:'Tis not through envy of thy happy lot, But being too happy in thine happiness,— That thou, light-winged Dryad of the trees In some melodious plot Of - [Sir Roger At Church](https://ellipsis.intertext.in/sir-roger-at-church/) - By Joseph Addison (First, in obedience to thy country's rites, Worship the immortal Gods. — Pythagoras) I AM always very well pleased with a country Sunday; and think, if keeping holy the seventh day were only a human institution, it would be the best method that could have been thought of for the polishing and civilizing - [Sir Roger At Home](https://ellipsis.intertext.in/sir-roger-at-home/) - By Joseph Addison —Hinc tihi copiaManabit ad plenum benignoRuris honorum opulenta cornu — Horace(Here Plenty's liberal horn shall pourOf fruits for thee a copious show'r,Rich honours of the quiet plain.) Having often received an invitation from my friend Sir Roger de Coverley to pass away a month with him in the country, I last week accompanied - [Language](https://ellipsis.intertext.in/language/) - by Aishwarya Mitra Student, Semester 1, Rani Birla Girls’ College Night long go alongSilent procession‘recognise my mother tongue’Is the cry within each soulThat guards all our hope The black turmacIs overflowed with bloodBlood of my brothersCleanse the roadsWith showers of thousand bullets Still the procession moves onTouch of blood galvanisesTheir stubbornness Before the dawn they - [Is language a jargon or a lucid voice?](https://ellipsis.intertext.in/is-language-a-jargon-or-a-lucid-voice/) - by Shamreen Ashraf Student, Semester 4, Rani Birla Girls’ College It was a chorus evening, high did fly the kitesThe wind rushed to and fro and the locals pulled of their chorus rites Everything was seeming right, until an airplane came crashing inNone but the locals went rushing in Found the crashed plane and victims - [Language; A Barrier or Admittance?](https://ellipsis.intertext.in/language-a-barrier-or-admittance/) - by Sumana Ghosh Student, Semester 4, Rani Birla Girls’ College What language does the infant cry in,Witnessing the first beam of light?Is it a cry of hope or of returning desire? Who knows! What language does a human soul speak,Reuniting with love a decade later?Is it English or the unspoken words of longing eyes?What language - [I’m their Pride](https://ellipsis.intertext.in/im-their-pride/) - by Ishani Routh Student, Semester 4, Rani Birla Girls' College Since the globe started rotating, so born was I,Living across ages long I’m blessed never to die;For me the world knew itself, connected and formed about,Infinite souls I bound along and will continue without any doubt.In various forms appear do I differing from tongue to - [Film Festival, September 2021](https://ellipsis.intertext.in/film_fest_rbgc_2021/) - The film festival is organized by the Department of English, Rani Birla Girls’ College. During the course of the festival, the films will be screened everyday at 2 PM and will be available to watch till 10th September. You can register for the film festival here. To watch the films and to know more about - [A River by A.K. Ramanujan](https://ellipsis.intertext.in/a-river-by-a-k-ramanujan/) - In Madurai,city of temples and poets,who sang of cities and temples,every summera river dries to a tricklein the sand,baring the sand ribs,straw and women's hairclogging the watergatesat the rusty barsunder the bridges with patchesof repair all over themthe wet stones glistening like sleepycrocodiles, the dry onesshaven water-buffaloes lounging in the sunThe poets only sang of - [To My Native Land](https://ellipsis.intertext.in/to-my-native-land/) - by Henry Louis Vivian Derozio My country! In thy days of glory pastA beauteous halo circled round thy browand worshipped as a deity thou wast—Where is thy glory, where the reverence now?Thy eagle pinion is chained down at last,And grovelling in the lowly dust art thou,Thy minstrel hath no wreath to weave for theeSave the - [Film Festival: Jojo Rabbit (2019)](https://ellipsis.intertext.in/jojo-rabbit-2019/) - About the film: Jojo Rabbit is a 2019 comedy-drama film written and directed by Taika Waititi, adapted from Christine Leunens's 2008 book Caging Skies. The title character, Johannes "Jojo" Betzler, a ten-year-old Hitler Youth member finds out that his mother is hiding a Jewish girl in their attic. He must then question his beliefs while - [Film Festival: Agantuk (1991)](https://ellipsis.intertext.in/film-festival-agantuk-1991/) - Agantuk ('The Stranger') is a 1991 Bengali-language drama film written and directed by Satyajit Ray. Notable for being Ray's last film, it was based on one of his own short stories, Atithi. The film is a joint Indo-French production. The plot depicts a well-off family which is paid an unexpected, and rather unwanted, visit by - [Film Festival: Avatar (2009)](https://ellipsis.intertext.in/film-festival-avatar-2009/) - Avatar (often called James Cameron's Avatar) is a 2009 American epic science fiction film directed, written, produced, and co-edited by James Cameron. The film is set in the mid-22nd century when humans are colonizing Pandora, a habitable moon in another solar system, in order to mine the valuable mineral unobtanium. The expansion of the mining - [Film Festival: Ran (1985)](https://ellipsis.intertext.in/film-festival-ran-1985/) - Ran (transl. "chaos" or "turmoil") is a 1985 epic action drama film directed, edited and co-written by Akira Kurosawa. The film is Kurosawa's interpretation of William Shakespeare's King Lear and includes segments based on legends of the daimyō Mōri Motonari. Ran was Kurosawa's second encounter with Shakespeare during his career. In 1957, Kurosawa directed Throne - [Film Festival: Suffragette (2015)](https://ellipsis.intertext.in/film-festival-suffragette-2015/) - The word suffragette describes a woman seeking the right to vote through organized protest. Suffragette is a 2015 British historical drama film about women's suffrage in the United Kingdom, directed by Sarah Gavron and written by Abi Morgan. Even through the architects of the Indian Constitution ensured voting rights to women from the moment of - [Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde](https://ellipsis.intertext.in/hello-world/) - Contributed by: Paula Johanson Published 1885 Robert Louis Stevenson was born in Edinburgh, Scotland, on November 13, 1850. He was dearly fond of his childhood nurse, Alison Cunningham (Cummy), who deeply influenced the young Stevenson. He was also closer to his mother than was common for people of that time and income; they may have understood each other better - [Through the Looking-Glass](https://ellipsis.intertext.in/why-do-we-use-lorem-ipsum/) - Contributed by: Michelle Prebilic Published 1871 Born Charles Lutwidge Dodgson (pronounced “Dod-son”) on January 27, 1832, in Daresbury, Cheshire, Lewis Carroll was the eldest son of Reverend Charles Dodgson and Frances Jane Lutwidge. His parents were socially well-connected cousins who belonged to families with strong traditions of service to the Anglican Church and to the Crown. Together they had ## Pages - [Events](https://ellipsis.intertext.in/events/) - Current Events Workshop on CV Writing (May 2025) To find out more about this event, click here. Archived Events Film festival organized by the Cinema Club, Rani Birla Girls’ College (August 2023). To find out more about this event, click here. 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Theme of poetry: LanguageWord limit: Within 20 lines Here are the four best submissions we received: I’m their Pride by Ishani Routh Language; A Barrier or Admittance? by Sumana Ghosh Is language a jargon or a lucid voice? by - [Goynar Baksho](https://ellipsis.intertext.in/goynar-baksho/) - "Goynar Baksho" (transl. The Jewellery Box) is a 2013 Bengali language Indian horror comedy film directed by Aparna Sen. The film is based on the novel "Goynar Baksho" and a short story "Rashmonir Sonadana," both written by Shirshendu Mukhopadhyay. It illustrates the life, changing status, and shifting priorities of three women from three different generations, - [12 Angry Men](https://ellipsis.intertext.in/12-angry-men/) - "12 Angry Men" is a classic 1957 film directed by Sidney Lumet, based on a teleplay by Reginald Rose. The story unfolds in a jury room where 12 jurors are tasked with determining the guilt or innocence of a teenage boy accused of murder. 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