Father to Son Summary Class 11 English This poem highlights a universal problem—the generation gap and the lack of communication between father and son. The poem begins with a father’s lament that he does not understand his child though they have been living together in the same house for so many years. He confesses that [...]
Childwood Summary Class 11 English The poet seems puzzled about the loss of childhood. It is natural in the process of growing up. Still, the poet tries to find an answer to his two queries: When did my childhood go?’ and Where did my childhood go?” The first possibility of the time of departure of [...]
The Voice of the Rain Summary In English The poet asked the soft falling shower who it was. Strangely enough, the shower gave him an answer. The voice of the rain told him that it was the poem of earth. It is everlasting and perpetual. It is something that cannot be touched. It is born [...]
The Laburnum Top Poem Summary Line By Line Explanation by Ted Hughes in English The Laburnum Top Poem Summary in English Laburnum is known as amaltas in Hindi. On a bright September afternoon, the laburnum, a short tree with hanging branches and yellow flowers, stood soundless and motionless. A few leaves that had yellowed and [...]
A Photograph Summary In English The photograph pasted on the cardboard shows two girl cousins Betty and Dolly who went paddling in the sea with the poetess mother. Each of them was holding one of the hands of the poet’s mother, who was a big girl of some twelve year or so at that time. [...]
Silk Road Summary in English by Nick Middleton Silk Road Summary in English The narrator was leaving Ravu and heading towards Mount Kailash to complete the kora. It was in the early hours of the morning that they were set to leave. Lhamo gave the narrator a long-sleeved sheepskin coat, which all the men wore, [...]
The Adventure Summary in English by Jayant Narlikar The Adventure by Jayant Narlikar About the Author The Adventure Summary in English Professor Gangadharpant Gaitonde was travelling in the Jijamata Express on the Pune-Bombay route. This train was much faster than the Deccan Queen and he noticed that there were no industrial townships outside Pune. The [...]
The Browning Version Summary In English This is an excerpt from Terence Rattigan’s play’i te Browning Version’. The scene is set in a good school. Taplow, a boy of sixteen has come in to do extra work for his master Mr. CrockerHarris. He has not yet arrived. Another master, Frank, younger in years than Mr. [...]
The Ailing Planet: the Green Movement’s Role Summary In English The Green Movement started nearly twenty-five years ago. The world’s first nationwide Green party was founded in New Zealand in 1972. Since then, the movement has not looked back. In fact, no other movement in world history has excited human race so much as the [...]
Landscape of The Soul Summary in English by Nathalie Trouveroy Landscape of The Soul Summary in English Wu Daozi, was a painter in the eighth century. His last painting was a landscape that he made for Tang Emperor Xuanzong, to beautify a palace wall. Wu Daozi hid his work behind a screen, so only the [...]