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"Death of a Salesman" by Arthur Miller is a powerful and haunting play that explores the disintegration of the American Dream and the tragic consequences of pursuing a false sense of success and happiness. Set in the 1940s, the story revolves around the life of Willy Loman, a traveling salesman who becomes increasingly disillusioned with his life and struggles to distinguish between reality and illusion. Willy Loman is a complex character who embodies the ideals of the American Dream - the belief that hard work and determination will lead to success and prosperity. However, as the play unfolds, it becomes evident that Willy's pursuit of the American Dream has become a futile and destructive obsession. He is haunted by his failures and consumed by delusions of grandeur, desperately clinging to a distorted version of success that isolates him from his family and pushes him to the brink of despair. Through the use of flashbacks and dream sequences, Miller presents a fracture

#TRAGEDIES  Antony and Cleopatra (1607-1608) The story of Mark Antony, Roman military leader and triumvir, who is madly in love with Cleopatra, Queen of Egypt. Earliest known text: First Folio (1623). Coriolanus (1607-1608) The last of Shakespeare's great political tragedies, chronicling the life of the mighty warrior Caius Marcius Coriolanus. Earliest known text: First Folio (1623). Hamlet (1600-1601) Since its first recorded production, Hamlet has engrossed playgoers, thrilled readers, and challenged actors more so than any other play in the Western canon. No other single work of fiction has produced more commonly used expressions. Earliest known text: Quarto (1603). Julius Caesar (1599-1600) Although there were earlier Elizabethan plays on the subject of Julius Caesar and his turbulent rule, Shakespeare's penetrating study of political life in ancient Rome is the only version to recount the demise of Brutus and the other conspirators. Earliest known text: First Folio (1623).

  A War poet is a poet who participates in a war and writes about their experiences or non-combatants who writes poems about war. These war poets are also called trench poets. The term war poetry predominantlyrepresents and symbolize the poetry that were written under the direct impact of World War I. It is also called anti-romantic. Earlier also we had war poets, however, after the World War I these kinds of poet and poetry came under the genre called ‘War Poetry‘.Most of the war poets of that time considered themselves as soldiers as well as poets. The poets used to write poetry in their leisure time and express their feelings, emotions, desires, happiness, grief and sorrow through writings.Below are the list of some major war poets;   Rupert Brooke (3 August 1887-23 April 1915)  He was an English poet, and was known for his idealistic war sonnets written during the First World War, especially ‘The Soldier’.    Siegfried Sassoon(8 September 1886 – 1 September 1967)  Siegfrie

1. A Fool: Timon of Athens 2. Autolycus: The Winter’s Tale 3. Citizen: Julius Caesar 4. Cloten: Cymbeline 5. Clown: Othello 6. Clown: The Winter’s Tale 7. Costard: Love’s Labour’s Lost 8. Dromio of Ephesus: The Comedy of Errors 9. Dromio of Syracuse: The Comedy of Errors 10. Falstaff: King Henry IV, Part 1&2 11. Feste: Twelfth Night (he is regarded as the wise fool employed by Olivia) 12. Grumio: The Taming of the Shrew 13. Launce: The Two Gentlemen of Verona 14. Louncelot Gobbo: The Merchant of Venice 15. Shylock: The Merchant of Venice 16. Lavache: All’s well that ends well 17. Nick Bottom: Midsummer Night’s Dream 18. Pompey: Measure for Measure (employee of brothel) 19. Puck: Midsummer Night’s Dream 20. Speed: Two Gentlemen of Verona 21. The Fool: King Lear 22. The Gravediggers: Hamlet 23. The Porter: Macbeth 24. Thersites: Troilus and Cressida 25. Touchstone: As You Like It 26. Trinculo: The Tempest

“Locksley Hall”  Written in 1835; Published in 1842 in Poems  The poem represents "young life, its good side, its deficiencies, and its yearnings"  A dramatic monologue written as a set of 97 rhyming couplets. Each line follows a modified version of trochaic octameter in which the last unstressed syllable has been eliminated  The speaker of this dramatic monologue declaims against  marriages made for material gain and worldly prestige.  The speaker, a soldier, revisits Locksley Hall, his childhood home, where he and his cousin Amy had fallen in love. Amy,  however, was a shallow young woman who acceded to her parents’ desires that she marry a wealthier suitor. The speaker  begins the poem by protesting the modern mechanized world but ends by reluctantly accepting the inevitability of change.  In the end, he bids farewell to Locksley Hall, hoping that that a thunderbolt will strike it down.  Important quoteso “Many a night from yonder ivied casement, ere I went to rest,

Jayanta Mahapatra (1928 - Present) is one of the most widely known Indian  English poets of the modern period. As a poet he is very sensitive and his poems deal with every kind of emotions and most of his poems centers round  man-woman relationship. One can sense the presence of Orissa in his poem. Mahapatra is the first  Indian English Poet to receive the Sahitya Academy Award in the year 1981. Writing Style: As a poet he is very sensitive and his poems dealt with every kind of  emotions- pain, love, sadness, death, faith and so on. The sense of alienation  which Mahapatra always felt as a child from his mother can also be reflected  in his works. Poetry is an expression of one’s emotions and feelings and Mahapatra used it  as a tool to express himself. His concern to bring a change in the society can  be seen in his poems such as ‘Hunger’ which shows how poverty detaches  one of any humanly feelings; ‘Dawn at Puri’ which shows the hypocrisy of the  priests and so on. One can therefor