literature and life

Those who stand on the front do often have,             Soaking lashes and the moaning sighs.             With tearful eyes and mournful cries. They see beyond the horizon,             Looking for some twinkling hope,             Gazing around for some friendly guise. They become down to earth,             After getting some worst experiences,             After having their souls injured,             Their thoughts disrupted,                Their aspirations passed away. Then they rise up with an iron-will,  ...

                  Major themes of Robert Frost’s poetry Robert Frost (1874-1963) was the most popular poet of twentieth century. He was born in San Francisco, California on Mar 26, 1874. He is a well-known modern poet. He is generally regarded as a poet, teacher, and a man of wisdom. Many Americans recognize his name, the titles of and lines from his best-known poems and even his face and the sound of his voice. He was awarded Pulitzer Prize four times. Despite his popular image as a farmer-poet, those ten years, which he spent after his grandfather’s death, were the only period of Frost's life in which he worked seriously at farming, and in the last five of them he also found it financially necessary to teach school.  He had a profound knowledge of literature, history, science and philosophy. Hence he can be termed as classicist of very high order. Frost neither describes the situations and conditions of life of modern so...

Themes of Faiz Ahmad Faiz’s poetry Faiz Ahmed Faiz was born in 1911 at Sialkot and was educated at Lahore, where he studied English literature and philosophy.  He began his career as a lecturer in English at Amritsar.  After the second World War, he turned to journalism and distinguished himself as the editor of The Pakistan Times .  He was charged with complicity in the Rawalpindi conspiracy case and was condemned to four years' imprisonment in 1951.  The jail term gave him a first-hand experience of the harsh realities of life, and provided him with the much-needed leisure and solitude to think out his thoughts and transmute them into poetry.  Two of his books, Dast-e-Saba and Zindan-Nama are the products of this period of imprisonment. Faiz was to become a symbol of revolt and dissidence. His poetry as much as his life came to represent the longings of the people which had come their way so briefly and then cynically been taken away. Faiz became a sour...