Red Geranium and Godly Mignonette Donald Patterson Lecturer Kanda University of International Studies Chiba, Japan This paper is a close reading of D.H. Lawrence’s poem “Red Geranium and Godly Mignonette”. It examines how Lawrence uses both meaning and form to explore the theme of creativity. It discusses Lawrence’s use of the Christian creation story in…
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Postcolonialism in Salman Rushdie’s Midnight’s Children
Tripa Felicia Teacher of Romanian Colegiul Tehnic Energetic “Dragomir Hurmuzescu” Deva, Romania “Postcolonialism-inspired by the fall of European colonial governments in the Third World following World War II, postcolonialism is the political and cultural analysis of societies freed from colonial rule. The endeavour has obvious relevance to the traditional work of history, but because of…
Bobby’s Big Bang
Tom Byers The attentive mother tells her little boy, “There are two things you need to know about photons, Bobby, how they can hurt you and how you can hurt them. “Never stare directly at the sun, because you will go blind. “And never stare at the cosmic microwave background through an Einstein ring, because…
Circe
Diane Dehler/ USA Circe: renowned for knowledge of herbs and spiritual purification. I dreamed last night of Circe, pursuing the Moon. Twilight spilled red water color passion indigo gold, Smudges of moonlight ink across her face. Circe, I said – wait my poem needs you. She tossed white, wild sage onto my sleeping body. In…
Representation of Cultural Difference in Kiran Desai’s The Inheritance of Loss
Ms. Tejaswini Kiran Mane Research Student, Department of English, ShivajiUniversity,Kolhapur, Maharashtra,India. & Dr. (Mrs)P.V.Ghorpade Associate Professor, Department of English, K.R.P.Kanya Mahavidyalay,Islampur. Maharashtra,India. Culture can be defined as the learned beliefs, attitudes, values, norms and customs of a society or group of people, shared by them and transmitted from generation to generation within that society. It…
Nataraja—The dance of Shiva
Tahera Moiz Mannan Shiva dances Within the circle of fire Expressing harmony In his perfect figure The snake on his arm Is seen uncoiling The flame in his hand An endless cycle of birth and death His cosmic dance The harbinger of bliss Destroys the old Creates the new Releasing men from illusion He performs…
THE NAKED PRESENT
Davide Trame Autumn in the countryside, half past five, already dark. I’ve come to my childhood place by chance, looking for a bunch of keys I need from my old uncle. Here by the house of my first summers, deckchairs under the garden grapes by the water pump, caressing the grass, parents, grandparents, in the…
The Theme of Corruption and Moral Decadence in Arvind Adiga’s The White Tiger
Sushil Sarkar Research Scholar Department of English. Visva-Bharati University Santiniketan , West Bengal. Recently Anna Hazare and his followers at Jantar Mantar in Delhi had been undergoing his hunger strike for passing the anti-corruption Jan Lokpal Bill for making India a corruption free state. We may call Anna Hazare the second Gandhi for following the…
Cento For Daddy
David Groulx Who gave me the atom bomb twisted water into mercury perverted God and Godzilla I love you baby who loved my mother until Tecumseh was slaughtered by Locke on the plains of Abraham and buried here on the prairie beside Patrice Lumumba Oh baby you left me waiting for the revolution on the…
A Poignant Portrait of Human Displacement
G. Surya Assistant Professor, Department of English, S. F. R. College for Women, Sivakasi. Virudhunagar District, Tamilnadu. Introduction The twenty first century need not welcome future immigrants with open arms for it will be reconditioned by not just the population explosion, but also by the pyrotechnics of cyber technology. The set of power equations and…