The Education of a British-Protected Child by Chinua Achebe: summary part III
The other secular event, which they simply called anniversary, was the annual commemoration of the coming of the Gospel to Igbo land , on July 27 1857. It is reported that Bishop Adjai Crowther and his missionary team, who arrived in Onitsha on that day. The day was heavily beaten by rain, and as a result every anniversary celebration has been ruined by bad…
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The Education of a British-Protected Child by Chinua Achebe: summary part II
Further, Achebe begins to narrate his mother’s story. His father was an evangelist (religious preacher), after their marriage she was sent to the newly founded St. Monica’s Girls’ school in his district, the first of its kind in Igbo land. As a special favour, she went to live with the principal, Miss. Edith Ashley Warner and other small band of English tea…
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The Education of a British-Protected Child by Chinua Achebe: summary part I
"The Education of a British Protected Child" is a lecture delivered by Chinua Achebe in the Cambridge University on 22 nd January 1993. The central concern of the lecture was human values. He discusses how he grew up to be a writer. Achebe begins the essay by telling about the title. "The title I have chosen for these reflections …
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Dreams by Langston Hughes
Hold fast to dreams For if dreams die Life is a broken-winged bird That cannot fly. Hold fast to dreams For when dreams go Life is a barren field Frozen with snow.
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shall I compare thee to a summer's day ? (Sonnet 18):summary and analysis
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 dimmed; And every fair from fair sometime declines, By chance, or nature’s changing course, untrimmed; But thy…
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New Historicism
This school of criticism aims at reuniting a work with the historical age in which it was produced. It tries to interpret a work by identifying it with the political and cultural movements of the age to which it belongs. The central concern of the New Historicist is that every work is a product of the historic moment in which it was created. The approaches …
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Ecofeminism
Ecofeminism examines literary and cultural texts for the manner in which they represent feminized nature and naturalised femininity and thereby suggest that both nature and women have certain essential characteristics, which justifies the domination of both by men. As a branch of feminism it comprehends environmentalism and the relationship between women a…
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Church going by philip larkin: summary and analysis
Once I am sure there's nothing going on I step inside, letting the door thud shut. Another church: matting, seats, and stone, And little books; sprawlings of flowers, cut For Sunday, brownish now; some brass and stuff Up at the holy end; the small neat organ; And a tense, musty, unignorable silence, Brewed God knows how long. Hatless, I take of…
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Ecocriticism: Literature goes green
“To me the meanest flower that blows can give Thoughts that do often lie too deep for tears” – William Wordsworth (Intimations of immortality) The world of literary theory in the latter part of twentieth century has been marked by the appearance of numerous innovative approaches to reading and studying works, both old …
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One Flesh (1966) by Elizabeth Jennings : A critical analysis
In the poem “One Flesh” Jennings explores the withering nature of relationship between an ageing couple. It includes in her poetic Anthology ‘The Mind Has Mountains’. Jennings prospects the nature of marriage relationship in old age and we come to know towards the end of the poem that she is talking about the personal relationship of her parents. The title…
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Nobel Prize acceptance speech by Albert Camus: A Summary
Albert Camus’ speech at the Nobel Banquet at the city hall in Stockholm, December 10, 1957. At the outset of the speech he expresses his immense gratitude towards the academy as they generously honoured him. Obviously, this reward of excellence overcomes all his personal merits and achievements that he gained so far. He says: “Every man, and for stronger r…
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