Anjali Ruhela

Peace (poem) by Adrienne Rich Lashes of white light binding another hailcloud - the whole onset all over bursting against our faces, sputtering like dead holly fired in a grate: And the birds go mad potted by grapeshot while the sun shines in one quarter of heaven and the rainbow breaks out its enormous flag- oily, unnegotiable- over the sack-draped backs of the cattle in their kingdom.

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Goats and Monkeys by Sir Derek Alton Walcott    … even now, an old black ram  is tupping your white ewe                                                                     -OTHELLO The owl’s torches gutter. Chaos clouds the globe. Shriek, augury! His earthen bulk Buries her bosom in its slow eclipse. His smoky hand has charred That marble throat. Bent to her lips, He is Africa, a vast sidling shadow That halves your world with doubt. "Put out the light", and God’s light is put out. That flame extinct, she contemplates her dream Of him as huge as night, as bodiless, As starred with medals, like the moon A fable of blind stone. Dazzled by that bull’s bulk against the sun Of Cyprus, couldn’t she have known Like Pasiphaë, poor girl, she’d breed horned monsters? That like Eurydice, her flesh a flare Trave...

A Mark of Resistance by Adrienne Rich   Stone by stone I pile this cairn of my intention with the noon’s weight on my back, exposed and vulnerable across the slanting fields which I love but cannot save from floods that are to come; can only fasten down with this work of my hands, these painfully assembled stones, in the shape of nothing that has ever existed before. A pile of stones: an assertion that this piece of country matters for large and simple reasons. A mark of resistance, a sign. Adrienne Rich’s poem " A Mark of Resistance " emphasizes the power of defiance and resilience in the face of oppression and societal expectations. The central idea revolves around creating a symbolic "mark" that stands as a form of resistance to the forces that seek to erase individuality, creativity, and freedom.  Rich portrays resistance as an act of self-preservation and empowerment , symbolized through the physical and emotional act of creating a circle of stones. This act ...

First having read the book of myths, and loaded the camera, and checked the edge of the knife-blade, I put on the body-armor of black rubber the absurd flippers the grave and awkward mask. I am having to do this not like Cousteau with his assiduous team aboard the sun-flooded schooner but here alone. There is a ladder. The ladder is always there hanging innocently close to the side of the schooner. We know what it is for, we who have used it. Otherwise it is a piece of maritime floss some sundry equipment. I go down. Rung after rung and still the oxygen immerses me the blue light the clear atoms of our human air. I go down. My flippers cripple me, I crawl like an insect down the ladder and there is no one to tell me when the ocean will begin. First the air is blue and then it is bluer and then green and then black I am blacking out and yet my mask is powerful it pumps my blood with power the sea is another story the sea is not a question of power I have to learn alone to turn my body w...

  Shakespeare's Sonnet 1: From Fairest Creatures We Desire Increase  From fairest creatures we desire increase, That thereby beauty’s rose might never die, But as the riper should by time decrease, His tender heir might bear his memory: But thou, contracted to thine own bright eyes, Feed’st thy light’st flame with self-substantial fuel, Making a famine where abundance lies, Thyself thy foe, to thy sweet self too cruel. Thou that art now the world’s fresh ornament And only herald to the gaudy spring, Within thine own bud buriest thy content And, tender churl, makest waste in niggarding. Pity the world, or else this glutton be, To eat the world’s due, by the grave and thee. Explanation of  Sonnet 1 Line 1:   From Fairest ........................increase, The sonnet sets a eugenic proposition from the first line. The speaker proposes that it is the responsibility of the fairest beings to reproduce themselves.   The phrase 'Fairest creatures'  refers to th...

Macbeth: an Introduction  Dramatist - William Shakespeare   Genre - Tragedy First Performed - 1606 First Printed - 1623 Full Title - The Tragedy of Macbeth Written in Reign of - James I Literary period - Jacobean Age (24 March, 1603- 27 March, 1625) Published in - Mr. William Shakespeare's Comedies, Histories & Tragedies , also known as First Folio Also known as - Shortest and Bloodiest Tragedy by Shakespeare Theme - Ambition for Power Total Male Characters - 21 Total Female Characters - 3 ( Lady Macbeth, Lady Macduff, a gentlewoman attending on Lady Macbeth) Total Witches - 3 Total Thanes - 8 (Thane of Ross, Thane of Lennox, Thane of Menteith, Thane of Cawdor, Thane of Fife, Thane of Angus, Thane of Glamis, Thane of Caithness) Sources of Macbeth Holinshed's Chronicles of England, Scotland, and Ireland (1577) Daemonologie by King James I (1597) Rerum Scoticarum Historia   by George Buchanan (1582) Historia Gentis Scotorum by Hector Boece (1527) Discovery of Witch...