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Macbeth Act V | ISC Class 12 English Literature Notes
Lady Macbeth walks in her sleep and dies, Birnam wood comes to Dunsinane, and Macduff kills Macbeth before Malcolm is hailed King of Scotland.
30 min read →Macbeth Act IV | ISC Class 12 English Literature Notes
Macbeth hears new prophecies and has Macduff's family murdered, while in England Malcolm tests Macduff and the two prepare to march against him.
30 min read →Macbeth Act III | ISC Class 12 English Literature Notes
Macbeth, now king, has Banquo murdered, but Fleance escapes, Banquo's Ghost wrecks the banquet, and Macduff goes to England for help.
30 min read →Tithonus | ISC Class 12 English Notes
An immortal but ageing Tithonus begs the goddess of the dawn to take back her gift of endless life and let him die like other men.
27 min read →Casualty | ISC Class 12 Elective English Notes
ISC Class 12 Elective English notes on Casualty: Seamus Heaney and the poem, its stanza-by-stanza movement, the fisherman and speaker and public mourning.
23 min read →Digging | ISC Class 12 Elective English Notes
ISC Class 12 Elective English notes on Digging: Seamus Heaney's Digging: the poet and the text, stanza summaries, family relationships and remembered work.
25 min read →We Refugees | ISC Class 12 Elective English Notes
ISC Class 12 Elective English notes on We Refugees: Benjamin Zephaniah and We Refugees, its stanza summaries, speaking voice and contrasts.
23 min read →Faceless | ISC Class 12 Elective English Notes
ISC Class 12 Elective English notes on Faceless: Benjamin Zephaniah, the speaker of Faceless, the poem's six main movements and appearance and identity.
22 min read →A Different History | ISC Class 12 Elective English Notes
ISC Class 12 Elective English notes on A Different History: Sujata Bhatt and A Different History and the poem's two sections.
22 min read →The Stare | ISC Class 12 Elective English Notes
ISC Class 12 Elective English notes on The Stare: Sujata Bhatt and The Stare, its stanza sequence, the observing speaker and childhood and freedom.
26 min read →On Killing a Tree | ISC Class 12 Elective English Notes
ISC Class 12 Elective English notes on On Killing a Tree: Gieve Patel and the poem, its stanza summaries and the tree's growth and destruction.
22 min read →Post Mortem | ISC Class 12 Elective English Notes
ISC Class 12 Elective English notes on Post Mortem: Gieve Patel's Post Mortem, its speaker, the sequence of the examination, the title and poetic form.
24 min read →Tulips | ISC Class 12 Elective English Notes
ISC Class 12 Elective English notes on Tulips: Sylvia Plath and Tulips, the hospital setting, stanza-by-stanza summary and the speaker's changing feelings.
24 min read →Mirror | ISC Class 12 Elective English Notes
ISC Class 12 Elective English notes on Mirror: Sylvia Plath and Mirror, the poem's two stanzas, its speaking voice and the wall and lake.
24 min read →Awaking in New York | ISC Class 12 Elective English Notes
ISC Class 12 Elective English notes on Awaking in New York: Maya Angelou and Awaking in New York, the morning setting and the poem's single stanza.
22 min read →Still I Rise | ISC Class 12 Elective English Notes
ISC Class 12 Elective English notes on Still I Rise: Maya Angelou and the poem, stanza-by-stanza meaning and the speaker and her opponent.
24 min read →The Mothering Blackness | ISC Class 12 Elective English Notes
ISC Class 12 Elective English notes on The Mothering Blackness: Maya Angelou and the text, the stanza-by-stanza summary and the title.
24 min read →The Journey of the Magi | ISC Class 12 Elective English Notes
ISC Class 12 Elective English notes on Journey of the Magi by T.S. Eliot: summary, the speaker's voice, religious symbols, devices and themes.
24 min read →Preludes | ISC Class 12 Elective English Notes
ISC Class 12 Elective English notes on Preludes by T.S. Eliot: a summary of the four parts, city imagery, structure, devices and themes.
27 min read →The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock | ISC Class 12 Elective English Notes
ISC Class 12 Elective English notes on The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock by T.S. Eliot: summary, Prufrock's voice, imagery, devices and themes.
27 min read →An Enemy of the People | ISC Class 12 Elective English Notes
ISC Class 12 Elective English notes on An Enemy of the People: Henrik Ibsen's An Enemy of the People, its setting, act-by-act summary and characters.
26 min read →The Black Santa | ISC Class 12 Modern English Literature Notes
ISC Class 12 Modern English Literature notes on The Black Santa: Allison Joseph and The Black Santa and the remembered visit to a department-store Santa.
26 min read →Refugee Blues | ISC Class 12 Modern English Literature Notes
ISC Class 12 Modern English Literature notes on Refugee Blues by W.H. Auden: summary, the blues form, imagery, unequal treatment and the themes.
23 min read →The Dreamer | ISC Class 12 Modern English Literature Notes
ISC Class 12 Modern English Literature notes on The Dreamer: Saki's “The Dreamer”, its author and form and the shopping expedition.
26 min read →Death by Scrabble | ISC Class 12 Modern English Literature Notes
ISC Class 12 Modern English Literature notes on Death by Scrabble: Charlie Fish and his short story and the section-by-section summary.
24 min read →The Doll’s House | ISC Class 12 Modern English Literature Notes
ISC Class 12 Modern English Literature notes on The Doll's House: Katherine Mansfield's The Doll's House and the arrival of the Burnells' gift.
26 min read →Pygmalion Act V | ISC Class 12 Modern English Literature Notes
ISC Class 12 Modern English Literature notes on Pygmalion Act V: George Bernard Shaw's Pygmalion, Act V: the setting and sequence of events.
25 min read →Pygmalion Act IV | ISC Class 12 Modern English Literature Notes
ISC Class 12 Modern English Literature notes on Pygmalion Act IV: George Bernard Shaw's Pygmalion Act IV, its midnight setting and the sequence of events.
26 min read →Pygmalion Act III | ISC Class 12 Modern English Literature Notes
ISC Class 12 Modern English Literature notes on Pygmalion Act III: George Bernard Shaw's Pygmalion, Act III, its author and dramatic form and the setting.
25 min read →Death be not Proud | ISC Class 12 English Literature Notes
ISC Class 12 English Literature notes on Death be not Proud: John Donne and the poem, its developing argument and the speaker's challenge to Death.
26 min read →Small Towns and the River | ISC Class 12 English Literature Notes
ISC Class 12 English Literature notes on Small Towns and the River: Mamang Dai and the poem, a stanza-by-stanza summary and the speaker and setting.
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