Sahyadri English Literature

POEM Australia Alec Derwent Hope AC OBE (21 July 1907 – 13 July 2000) A nation of trees, drab green and desolate grey In the field uniform of modern wars Darkens her hills, those endless, outstretched paws Of Sphinx demolished or stone lion worn away. They call her a young country, but they lie: She is the last of lands, the emptiest, A woman beyond her change of life, a breast Still tender but within the womb is dry. Without songs, architecture, history: The emotions and superstitions of younger lands, Her rivers of water drown among inland sands, The river of her immense stupidity Floods her monotonous tribes from Cairns to Perth. In them at last the ultimate men arrive Whose boast is not: 'we live' but 'we survive', A type who will inhabit the dying earth. And her five cities, like five teeming sores, Each drains her: a vast parasite robber-state Where second-hand Europeans pullulate Timidly on the edge

POEM Let Me Not To The Marriage of True Minds (Sonnet 116)  William Shakespeare, 1564 - 1616 Let me not to the marriage of true minds    Admit impediments. Love is not love    Or bends with the remover to remove:    Which alters when it alteration finds,    O, no! it is an ever-fixed mark,  It is the star to every wandering bark,    That looks on tempests and is never shaken;    Whose worth’s unknown, although his height be taken.    Love alters not with his brief hours and weeks,    Love ’s not Time’s fool, though rosy lips and cheeks    Within his bending sickle’s compass come; I never writ, nor no man ever lov’d. But bears it out even to the edge of doom.    If this be error, and upon me prov’d, ANALYSIS SHAKESPEARE’S VISION OF LOVE     The poem 'Let Me not to the Marriage of True Minds' is a regular English sonnet which is written by the famous poet William Shakespeare. It is a regular English