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    Langston Hughes was an influential writer of the Harlem Renaissance. In his poem "As I Grew Older," Hughes uses symbols like a rising wall to represent the increasing discrimination he faces as a black person in America, which casts a shadow over his dreams. Dr. B.R. Ambedkar warns in his speech "The Grammar of Anarchy" about losing India's independence again through disloyalty. He advocates for upholding constitutional democracy through non-violent means, avoiding hero worship, and establishing social equality and fraternity. Ruskin Bond's story is about an old kite maker named Mehmood who sits under a banyan tree watching his grandson Ali play.

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    Langston Hughes was an influential writer of the Harlem Renaissance. In his poem "As I Grew Older," Hughes uses symbols like a rising wall to represent the increasing discrimination he faces as a black person in America, which casts a shadow over his dreams. Dr. B.R. Ambedkar warns in his speech "The Grammar of Anarchy" about losing India's independence again through disloyalty. He advocates for upholding constitutional democracy through non-violent means, avoiding hero worship, and establishing social equality and fraternity. Ruskin Bond's story is about an old kite maker named Mehmood who sits under a banyan tree watching his grandson Ali play.

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    Department of English
    Semester – IV
    English Summaries
    Langston Hughes
    ( A complete summary)
    About the author:
    . Langston Hughes was one of the most important writers and thinkers of
    the Harlem Renaissance, which was the African American artistic
    movement in the 1920s that celebrated black life and culture. Hughes's
    creative genius was influenced by his life in New York City's Harlem, a
    primarily African American neighborhood

    “As I grew Older” is a poem written by Langston Hughes. He explores


    discrimination he faces as an African-American person in America. Throughout the poem,
    Hughes refers to different symbols to show the barriers between blacks and whites in society.
    Hughes’s dream first appeared to be “bright like the sun” because when you’re a child, you
    aren’t aware of what’s actually happening around you. Hughes writes “And then a wall rose,
    rose slowly, slowly, between me and my dream.” The wall Hughes’s refers to is the wall of
    discrimination. Then he writes that the wall “rose until it touched the sky--. The wall. Shadow.
    I am black. I lie down in the shadow.” This line illustrates Hughes’s place in society at that
    time. This wall casts a “shadow” over Hughes and this shadow represents the restrictions and
    laws that were made in discrimination against black people.
    Hughes’s ends this stanza by saying “No longer the light of my dream before me, Above me.”
    It suggests that the dream has been temporarily disabled because of the wall created by white
    people. He wants to break the wall with “black hands” refers to his own people. Hughes
    believes that with perseverance African-Americans can break through the wall created by
    white people and find a thousand lights of the sun.

    తెలుగులో వివరణ వినుటకు ఇక్క డ ి


    క్ల క్ చేయండి: https://youtu.be/UX7I6qDuHAY
    Dr. B. R. Ambedkar
    About the author:
    Bhimrao Ramji Ambedkar (14 April 1891 – 6 December 1956) was an
    Indian jurist, economist, social reformer, and political figure. He served as the
    chairman of the committee that drafted the Constitution of India from the
    debates in the Constituent Assembly, was the minister of law and justice in
    Jawaharlal Nehru's first cabinet, and after renunciating Hinduism, he served
    as an inspiration for the Dalit Buddhist movement.

    “The Grammar of Anarchy” is an extract from Dr. B.R. Ambedkar’s closing speech in the constituent
    Assembly on November 25, 1949. Dr. Ambedkar urges the need for making India a full-fledged nation
    and protect its independence. He expresses his anxiousness about the retaining of Indian
    Independence in future. India once lost it independence by the disloyalty and treachery of some of
    her own people. He says that if it loses its independence again it would lose it forever.

    He is anxious about the Indian Constitution that is going to be adopted on 26th Jan, 1950. He also
    expresses his doubts about preservation of democratic system that India once lost. He says that there
    is a danger of democracy giving place to dictator ship in future if we don’t protect it properly. He
    suggests three ways to protect our democracy not only in form but in fact.

    The first thing that we should do is to hold fast to constitutional methods and abandon the method
    of civil disobedience, non-cooperation and satyagraha. These methods are nothing but Grammar of
    Anarchy.

    The second thing is to shun hero-worship completely. We should not lay our liberty at the feet of
    even a great man. Bhakti or hero-worship is sure road to degradation and eventual dictatorship.

    The third thing is to make political democracy a social democracy. Social democracy means a way of
    life which recognizes liberty, equality and fraternity as the principles of life. He advises us to remove
    the life of contradictions or else our political

    democracy would be in peril. He says that the castes in India are anti-national because they bring
    about separation in social life. The democracy in India can be preserved only by the establishment of
    liberty, equality and fraternity.
    RUSKING BOND

    About the author:


    Ruskin bond is renowned India author, especially popular for
    his books for children and young adults. He was born in
    Kasauli(HP). He wrote his first novel the room on the Roof. He
    received two awards from the Sahitya Akademi-- the Annual
    Akademi Award in 1992.

    Ali, the grandson of Mahmood, plays with a kite as his grandfather, Mehmood, rests
    under an old banyan tree, the only tree on the street. Ali’s kite gets stocked in the Banyan
    tree’s branches, and he asks his grandfather to get it back. Mehmood is too old to get that
    back the kite or teach Ali to fly it properly, but he prepares him another kite. Ali promises
    not to loose this one, and it flew in the sky.

    The old man sits under the banyan tree and thinks of his former profession as a master
    of kite maker. In the old days, he remembers, grown men happily flew kites. There was more
    open space then, and less push in the town. Men would contest against each other and bet on
    the conclusion. Even the nawab, the local village chieftain, would come to watch at the river
    bank. When he was a kitemaker, Mehmood had been known and esteemed for his skill. Once,
    he had built a remarkable kite for the nawab, one that looked like a dragon in the air. That
    kite was too difficult for even Mehmood to fly, so he made the nawab a lovelier, easier one.

    Mehmood thinks on just how much has changed since then. The nawab is lifeless,
    and his offsprings’ became common people, just like Mehmood. He no longer has a
    supporter, and none of his neighbours know him. The pace of life has changed, and those
    living in his village are busy and hassled. One of Mehmood’s sons works in a local garage,
    and the other is stuck in Pakistan. When India and Pakistan were made into two separate
    countries, he was on the wrong side of the border and cannot come home.

    Mehmood is happy that his other son lives with him, as it gives him an chance to see
    Ali, his only grandson, grow up. He likes watching Ali play. Ali, he thinks, is like the mimosa
    tree at the edge of the courtyard. They are young, and will grow up tall and strong. Mehmood
    is like the banyan tree he sits underneath. Both are old, curved, their bones and branches
    twisted.

    Mehmood feels himself growing exhausted and wonders if he’ll dream of the kite he
    wants to make, one that looks like a giant white bird—like Vishnu’s Garuda. He should have
    something to leave Ali, he thinks. He hears Ali calling to him, but the boy’s voice sounds
    faded and far away. Ali comes back to the banyan tree and sees his grandfather, whose eyes
    are closed. There is a little white butterfly resting on his beard. Ali tries to awaken Mehmood,
    but can’t. Afraid, he runs away, calling for help from his mother. The butterfly flies from
    Mehmood’s beard to the mimosa tree, and Ali’s kite quickly takes flight and goes into the
    sky.

    తెలుగులో వివరణ వినుటకు ఇక్క డ క్లి్క చేయండి: https://youtu.be/z4ZCfEairPo


    Tennyson
    About the author:
    Alfred Tennyson(6 August 1809 – 6 October 1892) was
    an English poet. He was the Poet Laureate during much of
    Queen Victoria's reign. In 1829, Tennyson was awarded the
    Chancellor's Gold Medal at Cambridge for one of his first
    pieces, "Timbuktu".
    Alfred Lord Tennyson wrote a magnificent poem titled "The
    Flower." The poem illustrates how the human mind is changeable and how
    people are never ready to appreciate anything new. They have partialities, and
    they occasionally change their minds. What the people previously admired,
    they now hate for no apparent reason.

    The poet had planted a fresh seed in the hopes that it would grow into a
    gorgeously blossoming plant, and it did. The others around him, however,
    criticised and hated the poet. They may have had a secret interest in the plant,
    or at the very least the seed, though. In order to develop plants that like the
    Poet, they steal the narrator's other similar seeds. Despite the poet having
    done the same thing, everyone now appreciates it. However, people rapidly
    get weary of it and refer to the plant as a weed.

    He feels that such critics have forgotten that he was the one who taught so
    many people how to compose poetry, which is why he is criticising those who
    disregard his work and compare it to unpleasant and worthless weeds rather
    than exquisite blossoms.

    1. తెలుగులో వివరణ వినుటకు ఇక్క డ క్లి్క చేయండి: https://youtu.be/7Y0LDlZZs28

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