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Father to Son Summary Class 11 EnglisH

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  Father to Son Summary Class 11 English Father to Son Summary In English This poem highlights a universal problem—the generation gap and the lack of communication between father and son. The poem begins with a father’s lament that he does not understand his child though they have been living together in the same house for so many years. He confesses that he knows nothing of him. In order to understand him, he tries to build up a relationship from what he knows about him when he was small. However, the thread connecting the two is missing. He seems to have missed the link somewhere. Either he has destroyed this seed or misplaced it somewhere in an area which does not belong to him. The result is loss of affinity and closeness. They speak like strangers and there is no sign of understanding between them. The lack of communication between father and son highlights the growing chasm between the two generations. The father admits that the child’s physical shape is according to his own desi
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Childwood Summary Class 11 English

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  Childwood Summary Class 11 English Childwood Summary In English The poet seems puzzled about the loss of childhood. It is natural in the process of growing up. Still, the poet tries to find an answer to his two queries: When did my childhood go?’ and Where did my childhood go?” The first possibility of the time of departure of his childhood relates to the age when he had completed the age of eleven. It was then that he developed a power of understanding. Then he became aware that Hell and Heaven could not be found in Geography. Since they could not be located anywhere in world, he concluded that they did not exist. He thus reached a logical conclusion based on his reasoning power. The second possibility relates to the time when he realized the hypocrisy of the adults. They were not all that they seemed to be. They talked of love and gave advice of love, but did not act so affectionately. The third possibility relates to the time when he found that he was the master of his mind. He co
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The Voice of the Rain Summary Class 11 English

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  The Voice of the Rain Summary Class 11 English The Voice of the Rain Summary In English The poet asked the soft falling shower who it was. Strangely enough, the shower gave him an answer. The voice of the rain told him that it was the poem of earth. It is everlasting and perpetual. It is something that cannot be touched. It is born out of the land and the deep sea. It rises upward to heaven. There it gets a different form and is altogether changed. Yet it remains the same. Then it comes down to wash the dry/thirsty tiny particles and dust layers of the world. The rain helps the seeds which lie hidden and unborn under the layer of earth to take a new life. This process of rain is perpetual and goes on by day and night. Rain gives back life to its own source of beginning, makes it pure and beautiful. The rain sings a song. This song issues from its birth place. It keeps wandering here and there whether it is paid heed to or not. After accomplishment, the song returns properly with love
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A Photograph Summary Class 11 English

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  A Photograph Summary Class 11 English A Photograph Summary In English The photograph pasted on the cardboard shows two girl cousins Betty and Dolly who went paddling in the sea with the poetess mother. Each of them was holding one of the hands of the poet’s mother, who was a big girl of some twelve year or so at that time. Her uncle had a camera. All three stood still facing the camera. They pushed their hair aside to smile. Thus the photograph presents three smiling faces. The face of the poet’s mother is a sweet one. It was of a time before she was born. Their feet, which were being washed by sea water for a very short time, have been photographed along with the sea, which appears to have changed less. The poet thus indirectly hints that her mother’s face has changed over the years. After a lapse of time, say some twenty or thirty years later, the poet’s mother would laugh at the snapshot. She would refer to the photograph and recollect how her cousins Betty and Dolly had dressed t
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The Browning Version Summary Class 11 English

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  The Browning Version Summary Class 11 English The Browning Version Summary In English This is an excerpt from Terence Rattigan’s play’i te Browning Version’. The scene is set in a good school. Taplow, a boy of sixteen has come in to do extra work for his master Mr. CrockerHarris. He has not yet arrived. Another master, Frank, younger in years than Mr. CrockerHarris finds Taplow waiting. Incidentally, it is the last day of the term. Toplow is a student in the lower fifth form. He does not know whether he will get his division all right or not. He tells Frank that Mr. Crocker-Harris does not tell them the results like the other masters. Frank informs Taplow that there is a rule that form results should only be announced by the headmaster on the last day of the term. Taplow says that no one except Mr. Crocker-Harris pays attention to it. Frank then asks Taplow what he would like to study if his result is favourable. Taplow indicates his preference for science. Frank remarks that they ge
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The Ailing Planet: the Green Movement’s Role Summary Class 11 English

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  The Ailing Planet: the Green Movement’s Role Summary Class 11 English The Ailing Planet: the Green Movement’s Role Summary In English The Green Movement started nearly twenty-five years ago. The world’s first nationwide Green party was founded in New Zealand in 1972. Since then, the movement has not looked back. In fact, no other movement in world history has excited human race so much as the Green Movement. For the first time, there is a growing awareness that the earth itself is a living organism. It has its own metabolic needs and essential processes. The signs pertaining to the Earth’s life show a patient in declining health. People have now fully realised their moral duty to be good custodians of the planet and responsible trustees of the legacy to future generations. The World Commission on Environment and Development popularized the concept of sustainable development in 1987. It defined the idea as the development that meets the needs of the present with out endangering the ab
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