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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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