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1) What does Taru Dutt compare the Python to and why? The “beautiful last poem” in the Ancient Ballads and Legends of Hindustan by Toru Dutt, published in 1882, five years after her death, in which the “loving and observant spirit” of this gifted Indo-Anglian poet “finds, perhaps, its highestContinue Reading
Toru Dutt’s “The Lotus” is a Petrarchan sonnet that deals with the issue of crowning a flower as the queen. When Love looks for it, the choice cannot be made easily. Poets over the years have highlighted different aspects of the rose and lily, two contenders for the high honour,Continue Reading
“Our Casuarina Tree,” a poem written in English by the Indian writer Toru Dutt, celebrates the majesty of the Casuarina Tree as the poet/speaker remembers her happy childhood days spent under it and revives her memories with her beloved siblings. The fact that the tree is associated, in the speaker’sContinue Reading
The Lotus[1] Love came to Flora[2] asking for a flower That would of flowers be undisputed queen, The lily and the rose[3], long, long had been Rivals for that high honour. Bards[4] of power Had sung their claims. “The rose can never tower Continue Reading
Our Casuarina Tree[1] LIKE a huge Python, winding round and round The rugged trunk, indented deep with scars, thrust; cut Up to its very summit near the stars, A creeper climbs, in whose embraces bound encircled No other tree could live. But gallantly Continue Reading
Toru Dutt (1856–1877) was a Bengali poet, novelist, and translator who wrote in English and French. She is considered one of the earliest Indian writers in English literature and played a crucial role in introducing Indian themes to Western readers. Despite her short life, she left a lasting impact withContinue Reading
In Jane Austen’s novel Pride and Prejudice, set in the Regency Period, dance performs several important functions. Dance patterns emulate courtship rituals, marking dance as a microcosm for courtship and marriage – two main themes of the novel. The Regency period propagated the belief that no ingredient was more essentialContinue Reading
Jane Austen was the quintessential producer of the form called comedy of manners, its subject being the set of social conventions of a particular class in a particular time and place. The novel of manners describes in detail the customs, behaviors, habits, and expectations of a certain social group atContinue Reading
Pride and Prejudice, Jane Austen’s most famous novel, is filled with many different minor characters. Some seem superfluous, but others bring life to certain scenes and help to advance the plot. Certain plot-lines in the story actually revolve around minor characters and the plot could not truly be complete withoutContinue Reading
One of the main themes in Pride and Prejudice is that of marriage and its close relation with money and social status. The novel’s oft-quoted opening sentence: “It’s a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife” showsContinue Reading
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