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Iliad  Book 1 Summary The poet invokes a muse to aid him in narrating the story of the rage of Achilles, the greatest Greek hero to fight in the Trojan War. The narrative begins nine years after the start of the war, as the Achaeans sack a Trojan-allied town and capture two beautiful maidens, Chryseis and Briseis. Agamemnon, commander-in-chief of the Achaean army, takes Chryseis as his prize. Achilles, one of the Achaeans’ most valuable warriors, claims Briseis. Chryseis’s father, a man named Chryses who serves as a priest of the god Apollo, begs Agamemnon to return his daughter and offers to pay an enormous ransom. When Agamemnon refuses, Chryses prays to Apollo for help. Apollo sends a plague upon the Greek camp, causing the death of many soldiers. After ten days of suffering, Achilles calls an assembly of the Achaean army and asks for a soothsayer to reveal the cause of the plague. Calchas, a powerful seer, stands up and offers his services. Though he fears retribution ...

CHINA’S WAY TO PROGRESS             In this essay Galeazzo Santini provides us the secret behind China’s remarkable progress since independence in 1949. China encloses one-fourth of the humanity and this huge population, according to the western world, will lead to the elimination of China. On devotion having a common aim before them. This numerical strength becomes a “POWER” and not a threat to its existence.              In the early days after independence, China was not given much important but now the West has recognized the strong position assumed by China. Every year a large number of delegations visit China and Chinese leaders are esteemed due to their genius and of dedication towards the people. Under their leadership the Chinese people have turned the country into an earthly paradise. Their exemplary ways of living have drawn the attention of many ...

About the Poet William Henry Davies  (3 July 1871 – 26 September 1940) was a Welsh poet and writer.  Davies  spent a significant part of his life as a tramp or hobo, in the United Kingdom and United States, but became one of the most popular poets of his time. “The Autobiography of a Super-Tramp ” and "Leisure" are his notable works. Leisure This poem is a criticism on a busy life of modern man. The poet has used examples from our daily life to make his point of view clearly and significantly easy to understand by us. The poem expresses poet’s feelings on a needless dedication of man for worldly affairs. The poet says that this life has no use, if we don't get time to see the beauty spread all around us.   WHAT is this life if, full of care, We have no time to stand and stare?— No time to stand beneath the boughs, And stare as long as sheep and cows: No time to see, when woods we pass, Where squirrels hide their nuts in grass: No time to see, i...

Theory of Impersonality T.S. Eliot’s impersonal conception of art and the fullest expression of his classicist attitude towards art and poetry are essentially given by him in his essay Tradition and the Individual Talent. Eliot explains his theory of impersonality by examining first, the relation of the poet to the past and secondly, the relation of the poem to its author. According to his view the past is never dead, it lives in the present. “No poet or no artist has his complete meaning alone. His significance, his appreciation is the appreciation of his relation to the dead poets and artists.” Above all, the artist or the poet has to work in the long established tradition of the literature to which he belongs. We cannot value the poet alone; we must set him for comparison and contrast among the dead poets of his language. In the next part of the theory he examines the relation of the poet to the poem. According to him, the poem has no relation to the poet. The diffe...

My Financial Career Question 1: What light do the following expressions throw on Leacock's state of mind when he entered the bank? Looked timidly round’ Shambled in? Answer:  These expressions reflect the confused state of writer’s mind. He was fully confused and could not express his matter properly. Question 2: Why did the manager come to think that Leacock had an awful secret to reveal? Answer:  The manager came to think that Leacock had an awful secret to reveal because he insisted to meet manager alone. Question 3: What was the attitude of the manager towards Leacock on learning that he only wished to deposit 56 dollars in the bank? Answer:  When the manager learns the actual amount of the money, he became angry. His attitude was rude and unkind. He asked him to go to the accountant. Question 4: What other blunders did Leacock commit after leaving the manager’s office? Answer:  After leaving the manager’s office, Leacock made a number of blunders. Fi...

The Hollow Men      We are the hollow men     We are the stuffed men     Leaning together     Headpiece filled with straw. Alas!     Our dried voices, when     We whisper together     Are quiet and meaningless     As wind in dry grass     Or rats' feet over broken glass     In our dry cellar         Shape without form, shade without colour,     Paralysed force, gesture without motion;         Those who have crossed     With direct eyes, to death's other Kingdom     Remember us-if at all-not as lost     Violent souls, but only     As the hollow men     The stuffed men. Summary of The Hollow Men The speaker declares that he is part of a group of empty people. These people are stuffed, perhaps like scarecrows, and lean against each other with their heads full o...