— Afshara Choudhury Poem — A response to the classical Sanskrit lyric Life is unpredictable So is the destiny of mine As my life unfold I rethink the past. Once I read the Sanskrit lyric For a moment he’s a child It hit me to the Core I understood the shift From beginning […]
Ancient and Classical (1200BCE–455CE)
Letter to a Friend…
— Afshara Choudhury Dear Best Friend, As you know I just transferred to Baruch and I am taking a course named English literature 2800. In the beginning when I registered for this class, I didn’t think I would like the reading material and the process of reading these gigantic plays or stories but after 4th […]
Medea, the name of a woman whose sacrifices does not have any limit…
— Anonymous Medea, the name of a women whose sacrifices does not have any limit. For me these poem is really sad and hurtful because here I could see a women who took all the danger for the only person she loves in her whole life but in the end of the day left her […]
In my opinion, good literature is timeless and placeless…
— Anonymous In my opinion, good literature is timeless and placeless. It does not matter when it was written and created. On account of being timeless and placeless, I am trying to imply that the themes of the work and therefore the messages communicated by the story are what matter more, irrelevant of what time […]
For one to be considered great…
—Anonymous For one to be considered great, it has to be considerably above the normal or average. Any literature can be good, but it’s different for a literature to be considered a “Great Work.” In order for a story to be considered a “Great Work”, it must have lessons that pertain to one’s life no […]
