Summary of literary texts and key concepts of literature

Sylvia Plath’s Mirror : Summary and Critical Appreciation    The poem is not at all enigmatic about its speaker as the very first line reveals the identity of the speaker-‘I am silver and exact’. In this poem the mirror describes its existence and its owner who grows older as the mirror watches. The first stanza describes the mirror, which seems to be like one of those people who don’t tell white lies-it’s truthful and exact but not cruel. The mirror describes itself as silver and exact. It is not judgemental about anybody but merely swallows what it perceives and reflects it back without any alteration. It considers itself a four cornered eye  of God, which sees everything for what it is .Most of the time the mirror looks across the empty room and meditates on the pink speckled wall  It has looked at the wall for so long that it describes the wall as ‘part of my heart’. The image of the wall is interrupted only by people who enter to look at themselves and the darkness that come

Ulysses by Lord Tennyson: General note, summary and critical analysis. ON THE POET : Lord Tennyson(1809-92) was the most recognised and representative poet of Victorian era during much of Queen Victoria’s reign .He succeeded Wordsworth as Poet  Laureate in 1850.He started writing poetry at an early age emulating the  style of Lord Byron. Tennyson was the only poet to voice the profoundest hopes and doubts, the noblest ideals and aspirations of the age .His talent excelled in the genre of elegy. In Memoriam, an elegy written to mourn his dearest friend Arthur Henry Hallam’s death was one of the finest specimens of his craftsmanship. His ability to observe nature keenly is plausible on his representation of nature’s both as benevolent and malevolent in his poetry. His lyrics were full of pictorial representation as if he explored the musical resources of language. HIS WORKS : Mariana, The Lady of Shalott, The Lotos Eaters, The Epic, Crossing the Bars, Ulysses, Tears Idle Tears,

Summary and Critical Appreciation    of     In Love   by Kamala Das About The Poet: Kamala Surayya(born Kamala Das,1934-2009),also known as Madhavikutty, was an Indian English poet as well as a leading Malayalam author from Kerala, India. Her oeuvre written in English under the name of Kamala Das, is noted for the poems and explicit autobiography. She was marked as an iconoclast feminist writer   in her generation because of her   candid   and honest but stark treatment of   female sexuality devoid of   any sense of guilt .She   has been typecast as a confessional poet. She writes about sexual frustration and desire, of the suffocation of the arranged love-less marriage, of the futility of lust, of the shame and sorrow of not finding love after repeated and desperate attempts, of the loneliness and neurosis that stalks women especially. Her literary calibre is so much attributed to her love poems that she is also known as queen of erotica. Source of the poem: The poem is take