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Task is given by Dilip Sir : Click here   The cultural memory of the 1918 flu pandemic remains faint, despite its devastating impact, because of the unique ways societies perceive and record pandemics. Unlike wars, which are collective events involving shared struggles, pandemics are deeply personal. Each individual experiences a private battle with illness, even if millions face the same disease simultaneously. This combination of individual suffering and widespread impact makes pandemics feel both personal and impersonal, complicating their inclusion in collective memory. Historical events are often remembered through visible, tangible outcomes, such as monuments, narratives, or shared cultural symbols. In contrast, pandemics are challenging to memorialize in the same way. The losses caused by a pandemic, while enormous, are less visible and harder to quantify. While statistics, such as death tolls or economic losses, can provide a sense of scale, they do not capture the emotiona...

  1. Compare the treatment of war in On Being Asked for a War Poem with other war poems by Wilfred Owen or Siegfried Sassoon. Blog is Given by Dilip Sir  W.B. Yeats's on Being Asked for a War Poem and the war poetry of Wilfred Owen and Siegfried Sassoon provide contrasting perspectives on the role of poetry in addressing war. Yeats's poem rejects the notion that poetry should serve as propaganda or a direct commentary on war. In a tone of quiet defiance, Yeats declares that poets should not glorify or romanticize war but focus instead on the introspective and personal. The poem reflects Yeats's belief in the autonomy of art, as he famously writes, "I think it better that in times like these / A poet’s mouth be silent." For Yeats, war does not lend itself to the poetic imagination in the same way personal or universal themes do. In contrast, Wilfred Owen and Siegfried Sassoon confront war head-on, offering vivid, graphic depictions of its brutality and futility. Ow...

  Blog is given by Megha ma'am.   Ernest Miller Hemingway  : July 21, 1899 – July 2, 1961) was an American novelist,   short-story writer   and journalist. Known for an economical, understated style that influenced later 20th-century writers, he has been romanticized for his adventurous lifestyle and outspoken, blunt public image. Some of his seven novels, six short-story collections and two non-fiction works have become classics of   American literature , and he was awarded the   1954 Nobel Prize in Literature . Introduction : For Whom the Bell Tolls  is a novel by  Ernest Hemingway  published in 1940. It tells the story of Robert Jordan, a young  American volunteer  attached to a  Republican   guerrilla  unit during the  Spanish Civil War . As a dynamiter, he is assigned to blow up a bridge during an attack on the city of  Segovia . For Whom the Bell Tolls by Ernest Hemingway, the conclusion serv...

  Blog is given by Prakruti ma'am. - War Poetry  - Features of War Poetry  Provided details of life in the trenches Often questioned the need for war, combining it with anti-war argument. The individual located within a company of fellow-sufferers Did not romanticize or sentimentalize war A universal humanism A Injury - mental and physical - is a central theme. 1 )  Wilfred Owen's "Dulce et Decorum Est" from the English literary canon and Siegfried Sassoon's "The Hero." Both poems focus on the theme of war, but they differ significantly in style, tone, and perspective. However, they also share similarities in their critique of war’s realities. Introduction The poetry of World War I often reflects the disillusionment of soldiers who experienced its horrors firsthand. Wilfred Owen's "Dulce et Decorum Est" and Siegfried Sassoon's "The Hero" both challenge traditional, romanticized views of war. While Owen critiques the patriotic ...

  Blog is given by Barad sir. T.S. Eliot was an American-English poet, playwright, literary critic, and editor. He is best known as a leader of the Modernist movement in poetry and as the author of such works as The Waste Land (1922) and Four Quartets (1943). 1) T.S. Eliot's concept of "tradition," as articulated in his essay Tradition and the Individual Talent, emphasizes the importance of understanding and engaging with literary history. Eliot argues that a writer's originality is not achieved in isolation but through a dialogue with the works of the past. He challenges the common perception of tradition as merely following inherited practices, redefining it as a dynamic process that requires both preservation and innovation. Eliot’s idea of the "historical sense" is central to this concept. He describes it as "a perception, not only of the pastness of the past but of its presence." This means that a writer must acknowledge how past works belonge...