English Literature

The Unknown Citizen: W.H. Auden The Unknown Citizen is a beautiful poem by W.H. Auden. This poem was composed by him around the year 1939. It is an epitaph on the grave of an ordinary man. It is a satire on the loss of individuality. It has beautifully depicted a society governed by bureaucracy. The poem is as follows: The Unknown Citizen: W.H. Auden (To JS/07 M 378 This Marble Monument Is Erected by the State) He was found by the Bureau of Statistics to be One against whom there was no official complaint, And all the reports on his conduct agree That, in the modern sense of an old-fashioned word, he was a saint, For in everything he did he served the Greater Community. Except for the War till the day he retired He worked in a factory and never got fired, But satisfied his employers, Fudge Motors Inc. Yet he wasn't a scab or odd in his views, For his Union reports that he paid his dues, (Our report on his Union shows it was sound) And our Social Psychology workers found That ...

Philip Larkin : A Great Poet Philip Larkin is one of the greatest writers of modern period. He wrote novels, jazz criticism and essays as well but his reputation as a as a writer rests mainly on his poetry. He was born in Coventry in 1922. He went to Oxford in the early 1940s. After Oxford, Philip Larkin became a librarian. Along with his career as a librarian he composed poetry. The graph of his popularity as a poet ascended consistently. A number of literary honours were conferred on him. He was offered the poet laureateship on the death of John Benjamin. In the middle years of his life his health started failing and he died in 1985. Philip Larkin is popular for his The North Ship (1945), The Less Deceived (1955), New Lines (1956), The Whitsun Weddings (1964) and High Windows (1974). His early verse showed the influence of Yeats and Dylan Thomas to an extraordinary degree. With his second volume named The Less Deceived, Larkin's distinctive talent appeared. As a poet Lar...

I. About Leo Tolstoy: Leo Tolstoy is a very famous Russian author. His full name is Count Lev Nikolayevich Tolstoy. He is a very great story teller and novelist. He is popular as the master of realistic fiction. This great author was born into an aristocratic family in 1828 in Yasnaya Polyana, Russia. Tolstoy was so great that his ideal of simplicity of life and purity of purpose profoundly influenced Mahatma Gandhi. Leo Tolstoy is popular for his three novels- War and Peace, Anna Karenina and Resurrection. Several critics have appreciated his writings. Leo Tolstoy left this world in 1910 in Astapovo, Russia. Leo Tolstoy was master story teller. He wrote many fantastic short stories. God Sees the Truth but Waits is one of them. It is a story about a man named Ivan Dmitrich Aksionov. It is he who is sent to prison for a murder that he did not commit. The story is as follows: II. God Sees the Truth but Waits - Leo Tolstoy (TEXT) In the town of Vladimir lived a young merchant named Iva...