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Chapter 1 Pass English Medium English Literature Poetry Sonnet 30 — When to the Sessions of Sweet Silent Thought English literature handwritten notes on Shakespeare’s Sonnet 30 — a quatrain-by-quatrain summary, its themes of memory, loss and redeeming friendship, the sustained legal and accounting conceit behind words like sessions, summon, cancelled and account, the Shakespearean form and late volta, the most quoted lines explained, with flashcards and practice questions. Open map Chapter 2 Pass English Medium English Literature Poetry On His Having Arrived at the Age of Twenty-Three English literature handwritten notes on Milton’s birthday sonnet "How soon hath Time" — a line-by-line summary of the octave’s anxiety and the sestet’s submission, its themes of time, ambition and the will of Heaven, the Petrarchan form and what makes a Miltonic sonnet, the personification of Time as a thief and God as Task-Master, the most quoted lines explained, with flashcards and practice questions. Open map Chapter 3 Pass English Medium English Literature Poetry The Sunne Rising English literature handwritten notes on John Donne’s "The Sunne Rising" — a stanza-by-stanza summary of the lover’s argument with the sun, its themes of love above time and place, the metaphysical conceit that makes the bed the centre of the universe, apostrophe, hyperbole and the rags of time, the aubade form, the most quoted lines explained, with flashcards and practice questions. Open map Chapter 4 Pass English Medium English Literature Poetry A Song for St. Cecilia’s Day English literature handwritten notes on Dryden’s ode "A Song for St. Cecilia’s Day" (1687) — how music created the universe, what passion each instrument raises from the trumpet to the organ, Jubal and the corded shell, the diapason closing full in Man, the Grand Chorus in which music untunes the sky, the irregular ode form and its word-music, with flashcards and practice questions. Open map Chapter 5 Pass English Medium English Literature Poetry The Solitary Reaper English literature handwritten notes on Wordsworth’s "The Solitary Reaper" — a stanza-by-stanza summary of the Highland girl singing alone, the comparisons with the nightingale in Arabian sands and the cuckoo in the Hebrides, its themes of song, solitude, mystery and memory, the stanza form and devices from apostrophe to auditory imagery, the most quoted lines explained, with flashcards and practice questions. Open map Chapter 6 Pass English Medium English Literature Poetry A Thing of Beauty English literature handwritten notes on Keats’ "A Thing of Beauty", the opening of Endymion — the claim that beauty never passes into nothingness, the flowery band that binds us to the earth, the pall lifted from dark spirits, the full list of beautiful things from sun and daffodils to the tales of the mighty dead, the endless fountain of immortal drink, the open couplet form and its enjambment, with flashcards and practice questions. Open map Chapter 7 Pass English Medium English Literature Poetry The Last Ride Together English literature handwritten notes on Browning’s "The Last Ride Together" — the rejected lover’s request, the ride itself, his argument that the statesman, soldier, poet, sculptor and musician have all failed too, the question "What hand and brain went ever paired?", his vision of heaven as a ride without end, the eleven-line stanza and dramatic monologue form, Browning’s optimism against Tennyson’s doubt, with flashcards and practice questions. Open map Chapter 8 Pass English Medium English Literature Poetry Ulysses English literature handwritten notes on Tennyson’s "Ulysses" — the dramatic monologue in four movements, the aged hero’s contempt for life at home, the arch of experience and the untravelled world, the handover to Telemachus, the call to the mariners to sail beyond the sunset, the blank verse form, the Hallam grief behind the poem, every famous line explained including "To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield", with flashcards and practice questions. Open map Chapter 9 Pass English Medium English Literature Poetry The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock English literature handwritten notes on T. S. Eliot’s "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock" — a full walk through the monologue from the etherised evening to the drowning at the end, its themes of paralysis, time, ageing and isolation, the Dante epigraph, the fog as a cat, the Michelangelo refrain, Eliot’s objective correlative, every famous line explained, with flashcards and practice questions. Open map Chapter 10 Pass English Medium English Literature Poetry Keeping Quiet English literature handwritten notes on Pablo Neruda’s "Keeping Quiet" — the plea to count to twelve and be still, what the pause would reveal about fishermen and whales, the salt gatherer’s hurt hands and the green wars, the warning that this is not total inactivity, the lesson the Earth teaches about seeming dead yet being alive, free verse and symbolism, with flashcards and practice questions. Open map Chapter 11 Pass English Medium English Literature Poetry Night of the Scorpion English literature handwritten notes on Nissim Ezekiel’s "Night of the Scorpion" — the full story of the night, the neighbours like swarms of flies, the chanting and the giant scorpion shadows, the villagers’ beliefs about sin and rebirth, the sceptic father with his paraffin and match, the twenty hours, and the mother’s selfless last words, with themes, devices, key images, flashcards and practice questions. Open map Chapter 12 Pass English Medium English Literature Poetry My Mother at Sixty-Six English literature handwritten notes on Kamala Das’s "My Mother at Sixty-Six" — the drive to Cochin airport, the mother dozing with a face ashen like a corpse, the young trees sprinting and children spilling outside, the face pale as a late winter’s moon, the old familiar childhood ache and the smile that hides it, with themes, similes, the single-sentence free verse form, key images, flashcards and practice questions. Open map Chapter 13 Pass English Medium English Literature Poetry The Bus English literature handwritten notes on Arun Kolatkar’s "The Bus", the opening poem of Jejuri — the night ride under a flapping tarpaulin, the cold pinch of wind, the sunrise caught in an old man’s spectacles, and the divided face that is all the countryside the traveller gets to see, with themes of faith and doubt, the free verse second-person form, key images, flashcards and practice questions. Open map Chapter 14 Pass English Medium English Literature Poetry The Pilgrim of the Night English literature handwritten notes on Sri Aurobindo’s sonnet "The Pilgrim of the Night" — the seeker who turns from the light and descends to the abyss carrying light within him, the symbols of Night, Light and the abyss, Integral Yoga and the idea of transformation rather than escape, the sonnet form and mantric diction, with themes, key images, flashcards and practice questions. Open map Chapter 15 Pass English Medium English Literature Poetry Our Casuarina Tree English literature handwritten notes on Toru Dutt’s "Our Casuarina Tree" — a stanza-by-stanza summary from the python-like creeper to the closing prayer against Oblivion’s curse, the Bengal dawn with its baboon, kokilas and water-lilies like snow enmassed, the turn at "Beneath it we have played", its themes of memory, loss, exile and immortality through verse, the eleven-line stanza, with flashcards and practice questions. Open map
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