Should the trees live in the forest or stay in the houses of the human beings? Should their parts just become the decorative pieces for humans? It is this conflict of man with nature that has been revealed in the poem, The Trees. The poem has been prescribed for class X by Central Board of Secondary Education in India. Please feel free to share your feedback of listening on [email protected] My blogs are available on arupedia.wordpress.com

In this poem the poet tries to reveal the difference between animals and human beings. Animals are simple and self-contained. They accept you as you are. Unlike humans they are always happy and satisfied. Humans, on the other hand, are very complicated. The poet feels at home with animals, but not with human beings. The poem has been prescribed for class X by Central Board of Secondary Education in India. Please feel free to share your feedback of listening on [email protected]. My blogs are available on arupedia.wordpress.com.

There is always a gap between what a child feels and and what the parents expect of her. It is true that a child should become disciplined. But should the parents seek to instruct and control the child for discipline? Or should they guide and support with understanding? It is this dichotomy between the parents' expectations and the child's feelings that has been depicted in the poem, Amanda. The poem has been prescribed for class X by Central Board of Secondary Education in India. Please share your feedback on [email protected] My blogs are available on arupedia.wordpress.com

A boy is upset because he has lost his ball. The ball is very precious for him. It can't be bought by money. But then he also learns an important lesson of his life through this loss: How to cope with a loss? The poem has been prescribed for class X by Central Board of Secondary Education in India. Please feel free to share your feedback of listening on [email protected]. My blogs are available on arupedia.wordpress.com

It is a humorous poem in which the poet suggests some dangerous ways to identify the wild animals. The poem has been prescribed for class X by Central Board of Secondary Education in India. Please feel free to share your feedback of listening on [email protected]. My blogs are available at arupedia.wordpress.com

The poem depicts the condition of a tiger in the concrete cell of a zoo. The poem can be divided into three parts. In the first stanza the poet shows the helplessness of the tiger in the cage of a zoo. In the second and the third stanzas the poet tries to reveal the tiger in his natural habitat of a jungle. In the last two stanzas again the poet takes the reader to the cage of the zoo. The tiger is alone, behind bars there.

The poem reveals the grief and sorrow that a father suffers due to a strained relationship with his son. The father is unable to understand the changes that he observes in his son. There is a lack of understanding between the two. The father is trying to discover the child that his son once was. But his son is an adult now. He lives in a world of his own. Despite all this the father longs for his company. He is ready to forgive him. And is keen to forge 'a new love' with him. You may share your feedback on [email protected]. Also visit my blog on arupedia.worpress.com.

The poet is trying to explore when exactly he became an adult. Did he become an adult when he reached eleven or when his understanding about the world grew? Probably it is not the physical growth so much as the mental one which is the indicator of his adulthood. The journey from childhood to adulthood is that from innocence to maturity. In the last stanza the poet suffers from a sense of loss. With childhood he feels he has lost his innocence. Please share your feedback on [email protected]

A photograph is the source of nostalgia in the poem both for the speaker and her mother. They both go down their memory lane by looking at the photograph. Later the speaker, who is also the daughter, loses even her mother. The ending of the poem is touching. You may share your feedback about the episode on [email protected]

The poem begins with a question, 'And who art thou?' In response to this the rain answers who she is, what is her role and how she nurtures Life on the Earth. Only a poet can make you listen to the voice of the rain. A poet like Walt Whitman. Do share the feedback about this episode on [email protected]