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સ્મિત

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સ્મિત    ઈશ્વર સાથે લડુ,તારા એક સ્મિત માટે,  દુનિયાને ઘમરોડુ,તારા એક સ્મિત માટે, દરિયાને ઉલેચુ,તારા એક સ્મિત માટે, ઉડતા પંખીને પકડુ,તારા એક સ્મિત માટે, નદીના પ્રવાહને બદલુ,તારા એક સ્મિત માટે, બસ,તુ આવી જા કાના તુ કહે તે કરુ, તારા એક સ્મિત માટે,                                  બીનાબા ગોહિલ

The second coming

The second coming                                                   William Butler Yeats    was an Irish   poet , and one of the foremost figures of   20th-century literature . A pillar of both the Irish and British literary establishments, he helped to found the   Abbey Theatre , and in his later years served as an Irish   Senator   for two terms, and was a driving force behind the   Irish Literary Revival   along with   Lady Gregory ,   Edward Martyn   and others.                                      The poem begins with the image of a falcon flying out of earshot from its human master. In medieval times, people would use falcons or hawks to track down animals at ground level. In this image, however, the falcon has gotten itself lost by flying too far away, which we can read as a reference to the collapse of traditional social arrangements in Europe at the time Yeats was writing. at the end of the poem, the speaker asks a rhetorical question which really amounts to a pro

My last Duchess by Robert Browning

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                Robert Browning   (7 May 1812 – 12 December 1889) was an   English poet   and   playwright   whose mastery of the   dramatic monologue   made him one of the foremost   Victorian poets . His poems are known for their   irony ,   characterization , dark humour,   social commentary , historical   settings , and challenging   vocabulary   and   syntax .      "My Last Duchess" is narrated by the duke of Ferrara to an envoy (representative) of another nobleman, whose daughter the duke is soon to marry. These details are revealed throughout the poem, but understanding them from the opening helps to illustrate the irony that Browning employs. "My Last Duchess," published in 1842, is arguably Browning's most famous dramatic monologue, with good reason. It engages the reader on a number of levels – historical, psychological, ironic, theatrical, and more. The most engaging element of the poem is probably the speaker himself, the duke Themes

The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock”

         The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock”                                                       T S Eliot is one of the 20 th century poet and well known for his poetry, especially for his epic poem “The Waste Land”. His poem The love song of J Alfred Prufrock is considered as masterpiece of modernist movement. His other pooems like   The Waste Land , " The Hollow Men , Ash Wednesday are also mile stn in the field of modern literature.  He was awarded Nobel prise for his contribution in poetry.                   The present poem The love song of J Alfred Prufrock is published 1915. Prufrock is unknown narrator of the poem. In this poem Eliot talks about the modern man-overeducated. Hollow, neurotic, and emotionally stilted . Prufrock says something about how he wishes he were a crab. Oh, Prufrock! Always the joker. Wait, you were serious? That’s kind of sad, my friend. Don’t you have important things to do?                 Themes of the Poem: ·         Lo