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  La Belle Dame sans Merci: A Ballad BY  JOHN KEATS O what can ail thee, knight-at-arms,        Alone and palely loitering? The  sedge  has withered from the lake,        And no birds sing. O what can ail thee, knight-at-arms,        So  haggard  and so woe- begone ? The squirrel’s granary is full,        And the harvest’s done. I see a lily on thy brow,        With anguish moist and fever-dew, And on thy cheeks a fading rose        Fast withereth too. I met a lady in the  meads ,        Full beautiful—a faery’s child, Her hair was long, her foot was light,        And her eyes were wild. I made a garland for her head,        And bracelets too, and fragrant zone; She looked at me as she d...

Osmania University Degree  Sem 5 new syllabus 2024-25 onwards Unit 2 The Chimney Sweeper  William Blake When my mother died, I was very young, And my father sold me while yet my tongue Could scarcely cry ' Weep ! weep! weep! weep!' So your chimneys I sweep, and in soot I sleep. There's little Tom Dacre, who cried when his head, That curled like a lamb's back, was shaved; so I said, 'Hush, Tom! never mind it, for, when your head's bare, You know that the soot cannot spoil your white hair.' And so he was quiet, and that very night, As Tom was a-sleeping, he had such a sight!-- That thousands of sweepers, Dick, Joe, Ned, and Jack, Were all of them locked up in coffins of black. And by came an angel, who had a bright key, And he opened the coffins, and set them all free; Then down a green plain, leaping, laughing, they run And wash in a river, and shine in the sun. Then naked and white, all their bags left behind, They rise upon clouds, and sport in the wind;...

Osmania Degree Sem 3 Unit 1 - Prose Mallika Srinivasan  1. Write a note on the various efforts made by Mallika Srinivasan to help TAFE become a market leader.  2. What setbacks did Mallika Srinivasan face in her personal life? What is inspirational about her response to these setbacks? 3. Draw a character sketch of Mallika Srinivasan on the basis of this biography. Summary Mallika Srinivasan is the chief executive officer (C.E.O.) of Tractors and Farm Equipment (TAFE). She received 'the first Businesswoman of the Year Award for India from the BBC; a Businesswoman of the Year Award from the Economic Times; and Entrepreneur of the Year in the field of manufacturing from Ernst & Young. The media referred to her as 'Tractor Queen' because of her success in the tractor industry.            She was born in 1959 in Chennai. As the daughter of an industrialist, she has learnt business skills since her childhood from her father.  Her father had su...

  Osmania Sem 5 ( New Syllabus with effect from 2024-25)  Unit 1 Video lesson in English Poetry- The Lotus by Toru Dutt Love came to Flora asking for a flower That would of flowers be undisputed queen, The lily and the rose, long, long had been Rivals for that high honour. Bards of power Had sung their claims. " The rose can tower  like pale lily with her Juno mein- "But is the lily lovelier?" Thus between Flower-factions rang the strife in Psyche's bower. "Give me a flower delicious as the rose And stately as the lily in her pride"-- "But of what colour?"--"Rose-red," Love first chose, Then prayed,--"No, lily-white,--or, both provide;" And Flora gave the lotus, "rose-red" dyed, And "lily-white,"--the queenliest flower that blows. Glossary  Love (n) : used for Cupid, the god of love in Roman mythology Flora (n) : goddess of vegetation and flowers undisputed (adj.) : without any dispute or doubt lily (n) : a ...

Osmania degree english Sem 3 grammar OU Sem 3 backlog exam March 2025 Unit 1 PRONUNCIATION Every language has its own unique sound system having different speech sounds. In language studies, a 'phoneme' is a basic unit of sound in the sound system of a particular language. In other words, phonemes are the smallest units of speech in a language which distinguish one word or word element from another. For example, the element b in 'bat' separates that particular word from words such as 'pat, 'rat' and 'mat'. Phonemes are indicated by placing their corresponding symbol between slashes, as in /b/, /p/, // or /m/. In English phonology (i.e., the system of sounds or phonemes in the English language). there are 44 phonemes or speech sounds: 20 vowel sounds and 24 consonant sounds. This clearly shows that there is no one-to-one correspondence between the sounds of English and the letters of its alphabet (since there are only 26 letters in the English alphabe...