phoenix of literature

  “If It Were Spring”                           -      Leonard Cohen REVERSING DEFORESTATION IS COMPLICATED;  PLANTING A TREE IS SIMPLE                                                 -MARTIN O'MALLEY The poem “If It Were Spring” was written by Leonard Norman Cohen. He was a Canadian poet, novelist, song writer and singer. He was mainly written on the themes of isolation, depression, sexuality, religion, politics, loss, death and romantic relationships. His important works are I’m Your Man, You Want It Darker, Live in London, Old Ideas, Famous Blue Raincoat, Death of a Ladies’ Man and Birds on the Fire . He received the Quebec Literary Competition Prize for his first novel The Favourite Game in1964. He got Canadian Author’s Association Literary Award for his poetry Book of M...

  “The Raven”                                - Edgar Allan Poe KNOWLEDGE SPEAKS, BUT WISDOM LISTENS                                  - JIMI HENDRIX Edgar Allan Poe was an American writer, editor, poet and literary critic.  He got involved in writing at his young age and he was written on the themes of mystery, secret and investigation. In his writings his lady love named Lenore plays an important role. His writings expressed isolation and loneliness in life because he felt lonely all his lifetime and lead his life in isolation. He wrote the poem “Raven” as his autobiographical work . This poem expressed gloomy and thrilling effect and written on the genre of Gothic narrative poem. It shows the themes of death and the afterlife, memory and loss, the supernatural and the subconscious, rationality and irrat...

  “The Misunderstanding” -          Albert Camus "BUT IN THE END ONE NEEDS MORE COURAGE TO LIVE THEN TO KILL HIMSELF"  The play " The Misunderstanding" was written by Albert Camus. He was a French philosopher, existentialist, author, politician and journalist. This play was written on the theme of absurd. In the opening of the scene one in act one, the conversation between Martha and her old mother begin the play. The protagonist Martha and her old mother run a boarding house in the city Bohemia which is situated in the country of Europe. When Martha is not at her house, one day a guest from Czechoslovakia wants to stay in their boarding house. Martha enquires her mother about the arrival of her new guest. When she knows that he is a rich person, Martha plans for his stay but she is interpreted by her mother. She asks Martha to stop all her plans and she wants to take rest.   Martha notices the difference in her mother’s speech ...