3. HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (February 27, 1807 – March 24, 1882)
was an American poet and educator whose works include "Paul Revere's Ride",
The Song of Hiawatha, and Evangeline. He was also the first American to
translate Dante Alighieri's The Divine Comedy, and was one of the five Fireside
Poets. His first major poetry collections were Voices of the Night (1839) and
Ballads and Other Poems (1841). He died in 1882.
5. Once up on a time there was a blacksmith, who was famous for his hard
work. He always engaged in his work. His hands are as strong as iron. His hair
faces are all black. He earned his livelihood by his own hard work. His bellows
blow day in and day out without any break. The sights and sounds from the
smithy are thrilling experience to school children coming home. When in
church, his daughter’s voice in the chair makes him happy. To him it is like the
voice of her dead mother in paradise. His life was full of sorrows.
His day begins with a task and finishes it by evening and the night is for
him to rest.
This story talks about the daily routine of a blacksmith it is the story of
hard work. Blacksmith is the embodiment of success. The price of success is
hard work. Dedication to the job at hand, and the determination that whether we
win or lose we have applied the best of ourselves to the task at hand
6. SEAMUS HEANEY
Seamus Heaney Irish poet and writer are widely recognized as one of
the major poets of the 20th century. He was the author of over 20 volumes of
poetry and criticism. He won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1995. His first
book ‘Eleven poems were published in 1965. He currently lives in Dublin’.
8. Once there lived a father and son. Father was an expert ploughman, son
always watched him ardently to follow his path in ploughing
While following his father, son sometimes carry on him on his back. He
was a nuisance to the father as he stumbles and falls. But now the aged father
follows his son tripping and doesn’t go away. An interesting thing is that, “now
the follower is father”.
9. NISSIM EZEKIEL
Nissim Ezekiel (1924 –2004) was an Indian Jewish poet, actor, playwright,
editor and art-critic. He is considered as one of the leading poets in Indian
writing in English. He was the Sahitya Akademi Award in 1983.
11. It was a rainy night. It had rained continuously for ten hours. This had
driven the scorpion to crawl beneath a sack of rice when the mother entered in
to the room for collecting rice; the scorpion stung her and went in to the rain
again. He Hearing the cry of mother neighbours came there, they began to buzz
the name of God to paralyze the scorpion. They searched for the scorpion
outside with candles and lanterns. But their search was invain.
12. They whispered to themselves, “Every movement of the scorpion will
move the poison in mother’s blood, so it may sit still”.
“May your sins of your previous birth will burn away”.
Instead of giving comfort to the mother, they engaged in unnecessary
talk.
Hearing the news more neighbours approached there, but they also
engaged in unnecessary talk. Mother was twisting and turning on the mat
groaning.
Then there approached her husband he was a sceptic and rationalist, so he
did not waste time for praying like the peasants. So he poured a little paraffin oil
upon the bitten toe and put a match stick on it. It started burning. Helpless son
stood there staring at the mother.
After that holy man came, and started performing his rites and chanted
mantras in order to tame the poison.
After a long time the poison became ineffectual.
