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  Full Fathom Five Thy Father Lies  By William Shakespeare A Note Prepared By: Dipendra Shrestha About the Writer   a famous English dramatist   also wrote more than 150 sonnets as well as narrative poems About the poem (theme)            This poem is a song taken from ‘The Tempest’ , a beautiful drama by Shakespeare . This song is about the meaningful death of Ferdinand ’s father y . He is the prince of Naples who mistakenly thinks that his father drowned into the sea. The spirit Ariel who is the speaker in the poem sings this song to Ferdinand.            This poem presents that death is meaningful and inevitable . When a man dies, the parts of the body do not decay ; instead , they become something rich and strange.            The speaker says that no parts of his body disappear when he dies. His e...

  The Lamentation of the Old Pensioner    By W.B. Yeats A Note Prepared by: Dipendra Shrestha (Lecturer of English) About the Writer            Irish poet and dramatist            was awarded the Nobel Prize for literature in 1923 About the poem (theme)   Simply, this poem is about an old pensioner who is lamenting on the loss of his youth, power and love.   It is a nostalgic poem that compares the past and the present situation of the speaker.   The speaker says that he was very happy, young, powerful, handsome and hopeful in the past. He had many beautiful girlfriends. He would sit in front of fire with other young men and talk about love and politics.   But now, he is very sad, old, powerless, ugly, lonely and hopeless. He has no girlfriends now.   Therefore, he is angr...

                                                                                                  Grandmother| Poem| Ray Young Bear |                                              Prepared By,  Dipendra Shrestha (Lecturer of English)                                                                                                                   ...