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© Pippa's Song, Robert Browning (1812 89), , Along with Alfred Tennyson and Matthew Arnold, Robe, Browning was an important poet of the Victorian pened, Browning's first poem was published in 1833 and this va, followed by collections such as Bells and Pomegranates and, , Men and Women. Browning achieved fame later in life. His, , longer poems explore the complexities of human emotions and, . : ., motives and tend to use unusual words but his lyrical Poems, , are obviously musical and their simplicity appeals to the lay, , reader., The poem given here is an excerpt from a dramatic Piece, , by Browning called ‘Pippa Passes’. Pippa is a young girl and as, she makes her journey, she meets many people and sees many, things. She has a positive outlook and attributes kindness and, virtue to all the people she passes. She sings as she goes along, and her songs inspire people to acts of goodness and kindness, , and reminds them of a larger moral order., , The year’s at the spring,, And day’s at the morn;, Morning's at seven;, , The hill-side’s dew-pearld;, The lark’s on the wing;, , The snail’s on the thorn;, God's in his heaven—, , Alls right with the world!, , Annotations ), , year’ at the Spring: itis spring time, morn: morning

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dew pearld: the dewdrops on th, 1 the grass on the hills look like, , lark a type of songbird, , on the wing flying, , sthehdt | 18, <anaide, , Answer these questions in asentence or t h, ee wo each., What is the tone of the poem?, What season is it?, What time of the day is it? WI, i : : Sus What other descripti indi is?, _ What does “The hill-side’s dew-pearta? iniaun indicate this, , What does ‘All’s right with the world’ mean? Why does Pippa draw this, , conclusion?, position Questions ), , Answer the following in about 250 words., , 1. The poem creates a certain mood and atmosphere. Identify this and, describe the elements that create this,, , 2. The song that Pippa sings reveals her outlook on life. Describe the, nature of Pippa as revealed through the song., , wre, , cs, , wn

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The Villain, W. 4. Davies (1871-1940), , W. H. Davies was a Welsh poet and writer who spent much of, ; UK and the US asa tramp. He was, , his time travelling around the, to study or work. He was aleo one, , restless and never settled in, of the most popular poets of his time. His Autobiography ofa, , amp was published in 1908 and describes his life as a, ramp, , Super-t ;, tramp in America. After an accident in which he lost one of his, t, , legs, he experienced a change in attitude., His poems mainly dealt with the hardships of life and a, , ways in which the human condition was mirrored in the events, of nature. ‘The Villain’ is a deceptively simple poem, but hidden, beneath its simplicity is a clear observation of the violent acts of, nature. The startling image of brutality expressed in the last two, lines of the poem mirrors the violence experienced in society., , While joy gave clouds the light of stars,, That beamed whereér they looked;, And calves and lambs had tottering knees,, , Excited, while they sucked., , While every bird enjoyed his song, 5, Without one thought of harm or wrong—, , I turned my head and saw the wind,, , Not far from where I stood,, , Dragging the corn by her golden hair,, , Into a dark and lonely wood. 10, (Annotations ), beamed: smiled widely, , calves... knees: newborn calves and lambs that were still, , 4

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unsteady ’ ;, s ie moved about excitedly. The image, signifies . ; :, , gnifies the birth of new life and regeneration, of the earth., , tottering: unsteady, Dragging... wood: i, , a stark image of violence. In nature as, , i eociety 4 ‘, , N society, in the midst of calm, there, are s ral dai ots i, , are several daily acts of violence that go, unnoticed, , , , Comprehension Questions, , Answer these questions in a sentence or two each, , AWRY, , What season is the poem set in?, , Why do the calves and lambs have tottering knees?, , What is the tone of the poem in the initial part of the poem?, What do the last two lines mean?, , What is the significance of the words ‘Not far from where I stood’?, , . Who is the villain in the poem?, , , , Composition Questions ), , Answer the following in about 250 words., , 1, , The title of the poem creates a negative mood at the outset; yet the, poem opens on a very positive note. Why do you think the poet use, this device?, , ‘The last four lines of the poem mai, does the poet create in these lines, , rk a sudden shift in tone. What effect, 2 What do these lines symbolise?

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Apparontly with No Surprise, Linily Dlokinson (LAdO a), , Emily Dickinson was a major American pool of startling Originality, Daughter of a successful lawyer, > was born in Ambarst,, Massachusetts, She never married and she lived at home all her, life, By her mid-twenties she began to withdraw into i ne, world and became a recluse by the age of forty, re! Ny 0, leave home or meet strangers, She started writing pe i 16r, twenties and wrote more than 1700 short poems, but on y soven, , , , vere din her lifetime,, = ie cool with basic human concerns il a6 yt, pain, fame, death and immortality, and reflect an in ae 7, painful inner struggle. Simple diction, colloquial rhy ify!, unconventional imagery are the special features of her ae ry., In Apparently with No Surprise’ with very few words Dic inven, brings out the casual cruelty of nature and natural prOcnenss:, The frost, the sun and indeed all of nature is only doing what, , ' h, its ‘nature’ requires them to do but in the process cause muc, destruction,, , Apparently with no surprise, , ‘To any happy Hower,, The Frost beheads it at it, In, , 8 play, accidental Power, , The blond “S8455in passes on, , 5, The Sun Proceeds unmoved, To measure off, , another Day, For an Approving God, , apparently; seemingly, , behead:, , to cut off somebody’, head, , 6