The poem “Hunger” describes a certain experience of the protagonist (poet speaker) with a fisherman’s daughter. The fisherman’s financial stringency had compelled him to use his teenaged daughter as a prostitute in order to earn some money and to keep himself and his daughter going. The protagonist contacted thi…

T. S. Eliot’s work covers a vast arena of modern life. Vikramaditya Rai comments that “Eliot with his high charged microscopic insight portrays the graphic picture of a despaired generation, the smell of war ridden soil, a state of psychological insurgency and the monotony and futility of modern civilization and t…

Dylan Thomas’s  ‘Poem in October’   is derived from the volume,  Death and Entrance  where he presents a vision of his childhood in contradiction to the monotonous, frustrated urban life after world wars. The poem describes comparing and contrasting picture of village’s life and town life which show us the backwa…

“I find earth not grey but rosy/Heaven not grim but fair of hue.” Robert Browning, a cherished poet of the Victorian era, has many of his poems filled with unbridled optimism. He is “ an uncompromising foe of scientific materialism ” as  Hudson  states Victorian age is a watershed age in English litera…

According to Britannica Encyclopaedia “ Magic realism , chiefly Latin-American narrative strategy that is characterized by the matter-of-fact inclusion of fantastic or mythical elements into seemingly realistic fiction.”   In his One Hundred Years of Solitude Gabriel Garcia Marquez through the arsenal of m…

Rajagopal Parthasarathy is a bilingual poet who wrote in two languages – Tamil and English . His magnum opus “Rough Passage” took him fifteen years (1961-1975) to complete. The essence of the poem is definitely the influence of the two different cultures on the life of the poet speaker, Mr. Parthasarathy. The p…