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 III SEMESTER   B.A/ B.COM/ B.Sc/ B.B.M  GENERAL ENGLISH-2020-21- TIME : 3 HOURS                                                                                  MARKS : 80 SECTION - A  ( 4×5=20 ) I    ANNOTATIONS       ANSWER ANY FOUR  OUT OF SIX ANNOTATIONS  ( 4×5=20 ) SECTION - B  ( 3X20= 60 ) ANSWER ALL QUESTIONS II A 1. ESSAY QUESTION FROM THE FIRST LESSON                                          10 MARKS        2. READING COMPREHENSION  ( SEEN PASSAGE )                                      ...

  Transformation ? Om Namo Bagavathe Sri Auravindaya. Oh God !  I surrender myself to you Give me strength to swim across the powerful currents of these turbulent times.  A litmus test?  Dark phase in life makes  closer to God? Unite with divine? Is the Dark phase  a blessing? Enlightened me? Awaiting Transformation ? All my physical, mental trauma,pain,suffering and numbness left to You  Oh ! Divine Mother awaken this ignorant soul. Show the spritual path leading to eternal bliss. Ah! I hear a voice. Oh ! mortal,worry not.

Sri Aurobindo's poem  A Tree    A tree beside the sandy river-beach   Holds up its topmost boughs  Like fingers towards the skies ,they cannot reach,  Earth-bound, heaven-amorous.  This is the soul of man. Body and brain  Hungry for earth our heavenly flight detain.   ( Later edition of this work: The Complete Works of Sri Aurobindo.- Set in 37 volumes.- Volume 2.- Collected Poems.- Pondicherry: Sri Aurobindo Ashram, 2009.- 751 p)  A tree  by sri Aurobindo is a six line spritual poem containing a quartain and a couplet. abab rhyme scheme in quartain. He speaks about attaining higher level of sprituality in humans.Tree is used as a metaphor. A Tree beside river is with its branches upwards like fingers towards heaven.Though the boughs try to reach skies it cannot touch the sky. The poet talks about tree's positivity to reach Supreme God. Tree is deep rooted to the earth and immovable,still tries to reach divine. whereas the man is...

Satavahana University Degree English sem 3-year 2018,2019-20,2020-21 (old syllabus). SRR Govt.Arts& Science College Karimnagar The Touch    స్పర్శ                                     Abburi Chayadevi englishlanguage-lit.blogspot.com The Touch (Sparsha) short story is originally written in Telugu by  Abburi  Chayadevi , a well known Telugu fiction writer. It is translated into English by Jayasree Mohanraj. She worked as a Librarian at JNU, New Delhi. She was born in Rajamundry, A.P. She was awarded Sahitya Akademi award in 2005 for her collection of short stories  Tana Magam   Her stories have been translated into English and Spanish besides many Indian languages. Her stories mainly deal with the women issues, family bonding and gender discrimination.P The Touch – Analysis This is the story about an octogenarian father and his married daughter. It ma...

Satavahana University Karimnagar- Degree English semester-2( old syllabus text) SRR Govt.Arts& Science College Karimnagar englishlanguage-lit.blogspot.com HOW SHOULD ONE READ A BOOK-  (ON READING BOOKS) VIRGINIA WOOLF Virginia Woolf (1882-1941) was a famous novelist and critic of the twentieth century. Her famous novels are Mrs. Dalloway , To the Lighthouse   and Orlando . She is also well known for her essays A Room of One’s Own , and The Second Common Reader . She employed “ Stream of Consciousness “ a fictional technique   in her novels. Stream of Conscious Technique is a mode of narration that involves the full spectrum and continuous flow of a character’s mental process.  Woolf suffered from poor mental health and committed suicide in 1941. Dongari Mallaiah, also known as Ampasayya Naveen, was the first to use this narrative mode in telugu literature in his novel Ampasayya Woolf recommendations on how to read a book The present essay “On Reading Boo...

Lamb to the Slaughter by Roald Dahl - Summary                 Satavahana/TU/PU / KU/OU  Telangana university- English Literature & Twentieth century-II. Sem 2. Course 10                 MA Semester 2.PAPER  III- FICTION                          UNIT V. Short stories. englishlanguage-lit.blogspot.com SRR Govt.Arts& Science College Karimnagar Roald Dahl is not only famous for children fiction but also for adult suspense thrilling short stories. Lamb to the slaughter is a twisty short story of a devoted housewife of a detective, who kills her husband instantly, hitting with a big frozen leg of lamb.  Lamb is a symbol of innocence, submissiveness, meekness and it represents Jesus Christ in Christianity. Lamb, unknown of impending danger, innocently follows his master when he takes it to the slaughter....

AZADI                                  Chaman Nahal Chaman Nahal’s “Azadi’ is a moving and heart breaking story of the seven west Punjabi   families, who were deeply affected by the partition. The novel is divided into three parts they are 1)lull 2)The storm 3)The aftermath. In the second part there is heart--rending graphic description of riots and annihilation of Hindu families in Sialkot Lala Kanshiram, a central character, an epitome of humanity, had respect for the British , as they  had brought peace to the war torn land and made a nation. But his faith in the Angrez Raj diminished when he heard the announcement of the British to quit the country after partitioning it. We understand his displeasure with the British when Lala made angry remarks about the irresponsibility of the British that the British neve...

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Analysis of the poem Still I Rise BY MAYA ANGELOU The main theme of the poem 'Still I Rise ' is racism. She is up against the major problem that is racial difference,.Negritude writers aim was the celebration of 'blackness' . They attempted to rescue blackness from its definition in negative terms. Maya addressed the issue of 'colour discrimination' "I "in the poem is undoubtedly the poet 'Maya'. Addressee in the poem 'you" is white skinned person. In the first stanza itself the poet attacks the historians who have recorded their history, culture as primitive abd as inferior human race. this reminds us of Edward Said' lines in his book ' Orientalism' that Occidents or the west recorded their observations based on commonly held assumptions about the 'orient' as exotic and immoral. The speaker asks his addressee to see whether she has broken ,bowed head and lowered eyes. the poet arrogant nature may embarrass hi...

SUMMARY OF HULLABALOO IN THE GUAVA ORCHARD:KIRAN DESAI Dr.D.Ramakrishna                 Mr.Chawla lived in Shahkot with his family. He was a head clerk at the Reserve Bank of Shahkot. In one year, there were no rains and heat wrapped Shahkot and its surrounding area. It was a terrible drought to Shahkotians. They were struggling to survive.         In these circumstances, his wife, Kulfi, was pregnant. She was in great hunger for food. She used to eat almost everything. She purchased many eatables from the market.  Later, as she had no money to purchase, she sold the valuable articles for food. Shahkotians were amazed to see Kulfi’s fast growing stomach.         As she was obsessed with food and she was unable to get sufficient amount of food, she became half-insane. She drew the pictures of fruits, vegetables and delicious non-vegetarian dishes on the walls. It dreaded her husband, M...

Unit-5- Arjun (Old syllabus)                                                       Mahasweta Devi         “Arjun” is a thought-provoking short story written by Mahaswetha Devi, a human rights activist and a fiction writer. She worked for the upliftment of the tribes in Bengal and Bihar. Her famous works are “Mother of 1084”, “Aranyer Adhikar”, “Rudali “, etc. Her first book was “Jhansir Rani.” She got the Sahitya Academy Award in 1979 for her “Aranyer Adhikar”. She got the Padma Shiri and Padma Vibhushan award from the Govt. of India and the Ramon Magasaysay  Award from the govt. of Philippines.                “Arjun” is a short story in which Shabars, the tribes of Purulia, saved the arjun tree which they considered a manifestation of the divine. Ketu Shabar was a tribal youth from ...

GENERAL ENGLISH FACULTIES OF ARTS/SCIENCE/COMMERCE/SOCIAL SCIENCES B.A/B.Sc/B.Com/B.B.A (I year )Examination Semester 2      Paper I  ( Old syllabus) Time: 3 Hours Max.Marks :80 SECTION A    (4x5=20) I. Annotate any four of the following.    a) When the person at the far end turned up to take his share, Rakesh’s eyes fell o his      trembling  hands.  b)To read a novel is a difficult and complex art c)”My father lived at Blenheim then,    Yon little stream hard by; d)”Now tell us all about the war,      And what they fought each other for.” e) Do not dictate your author; try to become him. Be his fellow worker  and  accomplice.. f) A handful of NRIs were flying back with a motto: “Do something for your country”.     SECTION – B      ...