Passion Literature

  About the author: A.G Gardiner Alfred George Gardiner (1 865-1 946) was a British journalist and author. His essays, written under the pen-name, Alpha of the Plough are highly regarded His uniqueness lay in his ability to teach the basic truths of life in an easy and amusing manner. The Pillars of Society, Pebbles on the Shore, Many Furrows and Leaves in the Wind are some of his well-known writings. Synopsis: An edited version of Gardiner ‘s essay of the same name, the author observes how a bus conductor makes a lady go up to the uncovered top of a double-decker bus on a freezing evening just because she is carrying a dog. While watching the incident and its reaction among other passengers, the author wonders whether rules should be tempered with goodwill in order to make them more humane. Summary: In All About a Dog , we have the theme of determination, class, resentment, control, power, defiance and change. Taken from his Leaves in the Wind collection the story is ...

        Pre-occupation with morality and insistence on sobriety is the essence of Matthew Arnold’s temperament. Having a unique distinguished place in Victorian literature, his intellectual pessimism also has had its influence on modern literature. A critical study of Dover Beach makes the readers realize that it is an impressive and memorable poetic expression of the characteristic mood of the poet regarding life and the values and feelings pertaining to it. “Dover Beach” is most often classified as a dramatic  monologue   , a poetic form that Alfred, Lord Tennyson, and Robert Browning, found extremely attractive . Beginning with the image of seascape, Arnold’s main theme is not idealization of nature’s beauty; it is the evocation of “the eternal note of sadness” in human life. The allusion to Sophocles and his study of “the turbid ebb and flow/ Of human misery” , rings in the key-note of the poem. Like the “moon-blanch’d sand” of the sea-co...