Poem 1 T AR T AR Y

About poet
This poem is weritten by WALTER- DE- LA -MERE born
in 1873 and died in 1943. He was an english poet
novelist ,short stories, and poems for children .He had
romantic belt mind.
Su m m ar y
This is fantastic poetry by walter de la mere .He
considered himself the lord of tartary (an imaginative
and glorious land).The land tartary doesnot exist in
reality .This is only the poet imagination that he sees
such a grand land and thinks of himself as the king of
that [Link] describes various types of facilities and
luxuries .He would enjoy as the king of tartary. He says
that tartaryis a beautiful and fertile land it has many
delights which we have not heard of he says that as the
king of tartary he would have bed made of [Link]
would have a golden throne with gold leaves on [Link]
describes his fancy dreamland as the most beatiful
place in the [Link] says that there would be peacocks
dancing in his [Link] forest will have tigers hunting the
animals .Its pool will be full of great fisshes .He says
that he would wear a grand robe adorned with golden
[Link] would hold a curved sword and would go
around his realm riding a chariot with seven zebras
pulling it.
P o e m 2 AL L T HE W O R L D S A ST AG E
About poet
This poem is written by WILLIAM SHAKEPEARE in his
drama “as you like it”.he was born in 1564 and died in
[Link] was one of the greatest english [Link]
combined the romanticism and realism.

Su m m ar y
Shakespeare is a great writer and artist of the 16th
centuary .He has studied human nature and life quite
objectively ,shakespeare called this worlds, a stage and
all the human biengs are just their [Link] human
beings perform their respective roles and quit this world.
This poem describes that life is like a journey and we are
[Link] poem describes the seven stages of
human [Link] first stage begins as a helpless infant
and ends up as a school [Link] that young
adolescent grows up as a lover and then becomes a
devoted [Link] judge in the good clothing
represents the fiffth stage which is an intelligent and
mature stage ,then comes retirement when ones eyes
become droopy and voice becomes [Link] one’s
senses,memories and strength comes to an end and the
person eventually [Link] are the seven stages of
human ife as described by the shakepeare.

P o e m 3 L E E C H G AT HE R E R
About t he poet
This poem is written by WILLIAM [Link]
was born in 1770 and died in [Link] was an english
romantic [Link] poem is about the old man who used
to collect leeches.
Su m m ar y
The poet describes the meeting with an old man who
was a leech gatherer by his [Link] describes
cool wind was blowing that night,raining heavily but
morning was very cool and pleasant,raindrops were lying
on the grass they were shining on the blades of grass
.The sky was also looking [Link] sun was shining
.The birds were singing with their sweet voices,hares
were hapilly running here and [Link] poet further says
that he was wondering upon mares enjoying the
[Link] poet was hearing the sweet voice os
skylark in the sky but suddenly he thought that such
happy moments would not last for [Link] may become
lonely and poor that’swhy he becomes very pessimistic
about [Link] poet thinks about the tragic fate of
chaterton and [Link] both were genius and passed
their life happily but their old days were very painful then
he saw an old man there,he was looking very week as he
was suffering from some chronic disease .He was
bending upon wooden stick .the old man told the poet
that he had gone to pool to gather leeches,which was
his profession .The poet couldnot hear his voice clearly
because he was standind far [Link] poet saw an
old man ,he forgot the pain of other poet ,the poet asked
him about his lining and old man told him that he
traveled far and wide to catch [Link] also told him
that leeches ,now leeches had become less because
slowly [Link] old man was very happy and behaving
[Link] seeing an old man,the poet felt ashamed to
see such a stable mind of a weak man and prayed to
god to help that old man and decided to remember him
whenever he would pass through his moor.
E s s ay 1 W HI ST L I NG O F BI R D S
Ab o u t t h e au t h o r
[Link] is a famous english poet ,novelist and
[Link] is known for his love for nature .He was also
a great moralist.

Su m m ar y
In whistling of birds ,he expresses his natural feeling as
well as his fascination for [Link] essay is a vivid
description of change from winter to [Link] is a highly
symbolic essay .The writer has used many symbols of
nature,expressing his deep love for elements of nature
through which he has very successfully expressed the
cycle of life and [Link] writer describes ,first the cold
and dull winters,as it kills the beauty of
[Link] turns brown and yellow in harsh
winters ,birds start dying ,flowers become [Link]
rules [Link] the transformation from winter to
spring has hardlky started to occur,birds start
responding to this change distinctively,torns remains of
the birds could be seen scattered everywhere yet
wistling birds have forgotten the dull path and inclined
only to [Link] death is unable to stop the onrush of
llife as winter is unable to stop the onrush of
[Link] summer and spring symbolize life
whereas winter and autumn symbolize death and
[Link] gives birth to death and death gives
birth to life. With complete incompatibility ,these both
factors life and death go side by side.

E s s ay 2 MY T AI L O R
Ab o u t t h e au t h o r
STEPHEN LEACOCK is a famous English comic writer.
His humor is light, harmless, free from bitterness, and
mixed with pathos. The essay My Tailor is an excellent
example of a humorous piece of writing.

Su m m ar y
In this essay, the writer describes the behavior and
personality of his tailor. The writer has been associated
with the tailor for the last thirty years. Whenever the
writer went to the tailor’s shop, he saw his tailor
standing at the back of the [Link] measurement tape
was woven round his neck. He also welcomed the writer
and other customers with a smile on his face. He had
only two varieties of cloth, tweed, and [Link] tailor
always selected the blue serge for the writer and the
writer always accepted his suggestion. He did not buy
any cloth without the help of the tailor. Perhaps this is
the first amusement of the [Link] tailor used the
word Yes without any meaning is also funny. His
behavior of showing cloth to his customers was also
funny. He lifted his one knee in the air and the other
knee-handed and dropped the cloth over [Link] the
writer visited the shop of tailor for a suit, the tailor only
measured his chest. He advised the assistant to add
half an inch in the previous measurement of the writer.
The writer was fully aware that he was doing it only to
flatter [Link] day the writer was surprised and
shocked when he came to know of his tailor’s sudden
death. The people were talking about the tailor that
problems and worries of business had finished [Link]
were also talking about the stock of cloth and his family
members. The writer did not believe in the death of the
tailor. He thought that he should live [Link] was on
the death of the tailor that the writer came to know that
his wife had been left in economic problems. The tailor
had a daughter but the writer did not know about it. He
also acted as a sideman in the [Link] writer did not
know these activities of the tailor because he did not
talk about the family life. The writer always thought his
tailor an immortal character.
P lay R ID E R S T O T HE SE A
Ab o u t t h e au t h o r
[Link] was an irish dramatist .he was born in 1871
and died In [Link] is the most highly esteemed
platwright of the irish literary renaissance of the easrly
th
20 [Link] produced a modest number of works
,his witings have made an impact on audiences
,writers,and irish cullture.

Su m m ar y
Riders to the Sea is a one-act play set in Ireland’s Aran
Islands. As the play opens, Maurya, an old peasant
woman and the principal character, is asleep. Her
daughter Cathleen spins and bakes a cake for Bartley,
her brother, who plans to attend the horse fair in
Connemara. Four of Maurya’s sons, her husband, and
her father-in-law have all been lost at sea, and her son
Michael is missing. Her youngest daughter, Nora, enters
and shows Cathleen a bundle of clothing that she got
from a young priest who brought it from Donegal, where
the body of a man washed up on shore. The sisters think
the clothes might belong to Michael and decide to hide
them in the loft in order to avoid distressing
[Link] Maurya wakes up, they talk about Bartley
going to the mainland. Maurya says that he won’t go; the
weather is too bad, and the priest will stop him. Her
daughter says that the priest won’t stop him, and others
said that he would go. If he doesn’t, there’s a chance
that another boat may not leave for quite [Link],
who has been checking the boat schedule, enters
looking for rope to make a horse halter, and Maurya and
Bartley argue. She is worried that, if her son leaves, he
will die. The bad weather, the uncertainty of whether
Michael is alive or not, and the history of her life compel
her to beg Bartley to stay. Besides, she says, they might
need the rope Bartley is using in order to lower Michael’s
coffin into the grave. Bartley doesn’t listen, though.
Cathleen says that it’s natural for young men to go to
the sea and not listen to old women who repeat the
same thing over and over. Maurya eventually leaves with
Bartley to see him off. When she returns, she cries and
says that they won’t see him [Link] women argue as
several old women begin to enter and pray. Cathleen
and Nora think that Maurya shouldn’t have sent Bartley
off with strong words. However, Maurya was right. When
Nora brings out the drowned man’s clothes brought by
the priest, Maurya identifies them as Michael's clothes
and knows that her son is dead. Just as she is
confronting this fact, men approach the house holding a
large object with water dripping from it, leaving a track
by the big stones. Cathleen immediately recognizes that
the object is Bartley’s [Link]’s gray pony threw
him into the ocean where the surf was rough, and he
drowned. Maurya says that the sea can’t affect her
anymore; it has already taken everything. She says that
now she can stop saying so many prayers for her loved
ones, like she prayed for Bartley. Michael has had a
clean burial in the north, and Bartley will be buried with
the white boards that they got for Michael’s burial. No
one lives forever, Maurya declares after sprinkling holy
water over Michael’s clothes, and so they must be
satisfied with their graves.