Q1. Explain with reference to the context any four of the following (in 100-150 words) :
- (a)) I wonder if when Years have piled-Some Thousands-on the Harm-That hurt them early-such a lapse Could give them any Balm- (125 words)
- (b)) When some day in distant parts she dwells Where what the people be like? I know not, Will they awaken her on gentle, mellow sounds? Or, will they, I misgive, snatch her sleep away? (125 words)
- (c)) I willed my Keepsakes - Signed away What portion of me be Assignable - and then it was There interposed a Fly- (125 words)
- (d)) They've quickened now, with life. Even as you wash rice, fish, vegetables Even as you peel, cut, bake, stir and cook The thieving letters on the wall will take wings (125 words)
- (e)) But you stand still where the string was broken, You never guess how many forms you gave me, I, like Lalla, rose in the late hours of the night, and lulled you in my lap and woke you up. (125 words)
Key Points:
- Emily Dickinson questions time's ability to heal deep, early-life emotional 'Harm'.
- Lalithambika Antherjanam's 'The Journey' portrays a mother's anxiety over her daughter's new marital home.
- Dickinson's 'I Heard a Fly Buzz' depicts a fly's mundane interruption at the moment of death.
- Eunice de Souza's 'Women in Dutch Painting' symbolizes women's suppressed intellectual lives as 'thieving letters'.
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