LIFE AND LITERATURE

APOLOGY FOR POETRY                                                                                -SIR PHILIP SYDNEY ABOUT AUTHOR :            Sir Philip Sidney was a child of privilege, born to Sir Henry Sidney, Elizabeth I’s governor of Ireland, and Lady Mary Dudley. His godfather was King Philip II of Spain; his uncle Robert Dudley was one of Elizabeth’s closest advisers. Philip was educated to join his family’s tradition of service, first at the Shrewsbury School and then at Oxford. Following a three-year tour of Europe (1572-1575), where he perfected his languages and became familiar with European politics, Sidney returned to Elizabeth’s court and embarked on a career as diplomat and parliamentarian. A man of broad interests, he befriended leading artists and scholars of the day (including poet Edmund Spenser and alchemist John Dee), and was the dedicatee of more than 40 books on subjects as diverse as painting, law, poetry, and botany. An Apology for Poetry Summar

POWERFUL PRESENTATION INTRODUCTION:                    Presentation skills basically refer to the ability to communicate in an effective way whether in small or large groups. The process involves explaining and showing the content to an audience. Powerful presentation call for powerful presenters. Appearance is the most and the first important thing during presentation. Most people make an assessment within 30 seconds that often lasts a   lifetime and can be almost impossible to change of incorrect. The mirror exercise will get you more present to who you are in the world. INTENTION:                  The presenter must have the following intentions in his mind:                           a) That each member of the audience is respected and valued.                           b) That he should add to the knowledge of the audience.                           c) That he should develop the individual organization.                           d) He must not do any harm.         

                                                               LISTENING AND SPEAKING                    LISTENING COMPLAINTS IN FORMAL AND INFORMAL MANNER           In the Listening and Speaking section of this unit, the focus is on listening to “complaints” (in a formal context) and listening to “problems and offering solutions” (informal). “Complaints” call for “action” to be taken after the facts have been ascertained. With regard to listening to “problems”, the listener has to practice active listening and “offer solutions” or “suggest ways” by which the problem can be solved. The onus to solve the problem is not on the listener. Decision-making rests with the one who shares the problem and seeks solutions. Listening and responding to complaints (formal situation) Complaints could be made in a forum or individually Making Complaints in a Forum The healthy practice of listening and responding to complaints is deeply ingrained in the administrative system of our country. The vil

                                                                SONNET 18                                                                          -WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE       The poem opens with the speaker putting forward a simple question: can he compare his lover to a summer’s day? Historically, the theme of summertime has always been used to evoke a certain amount of beauty, particularly in poetry. Summer has always been seen as the respite from the long, bitter winter, a growing period where the earth flourishes itself with flowers and with animals once more. Thus, to compare his lover to a summer’s day, the speaker considers their beloved to be tantamount to a rebirth, and even better than summer itself.         As summer is occasionally short, too hot, and rough, summer is, in fact, not the height of beauty for this particular speaker. Instead, he attributes that quality to his beloved, whose beauty will never fade, even when ‘ death brag thou waander’stin his shade ‘, as he

                                           WORD ACCENT: CERTAIN GUIDELINES     The segments of spoken language are the vowels and consonants. The speech segments are called segmental phonemes or primary phonemes. They combine to produce syllables, words, phrases and sentences. As we utter them, we make use of wide range of tones of voice. This speech features, which are higher than sound segments are called suprasegmentals.       The speech features that are higher than the sound segments are length, stress, pitch, intonation, rhythm and juncture. Here I am describing about stress. Stress is a suprasegmental feature. Stress refers to the prominence given to a syllable. In English all the syllable in a word are not uttered with equal force. One or more than one syllable is articulated with greater force than the rest. The degree of force with which a syllable is uttered is known as stress. A syllable gains prominence as a result of the stress it receives. However, factors such as the l