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Collected From: Internet/ Websites POETRY SECTION Letter to Live Poets, I  by Bruce Beaver (1928 –) Summary A series of linked poems, published as they came out of the poet’s pen, were poetic products of an imagination which feared a collapse of its sanity. Bruce Beaver, the Australian poet, addresses his counterpart in the United States, Frank O’ Hara, who met with his tragic end in a quirky accident: he was run over by a beach buggy. Critics compare these poems of Beaver with Robert Lowell’s Life studies. Living in Down Under, the poet complains about the slowness of the news in arriving at the Australian shores. The truth reaches us slowly here, Is delayed in the main continually Or censored in the tabloids. The poet presents us with vignettes of contemporary events which had a tremendous impact on people of his generation. Though he refrains from specifying the war, it is obvious he is referring to the Vietnam War, in which America,

***Courtesy: Internet/Websites Three Sisters by Anton Chekhov- Notes Background Three Sisters  is a play in four acts written by Anton Chekhov in 1900. It was first published in the journal “Russian idea” (№ 2 for the year 1901); it was published by a separate edition with changes and amendments in the same year in Marx's publishing house. Written by order of the Moscow Art Theatre and first presented to the public on January 31, 1901, Chekhov's play does not leave the scene for more than a hundred years - both in Russia and abroad. It immediately won the love of the audience. The most famous actors of the time played roles in it, their game was just gorgeous. But not only had the actors intrigued viewers. In the play Chekhov raises the important human problems, the main of which was the problem of human orientation in life. This topic is clearly apparent throughout the work, repeats in reflections, debates, actions of heroes. The source of the conflict in the

Collected from: Internet/Websites Sula by Toni Morrison - Notes Context Morrison is the author of seven critically acclaimed novels and a professor at Princeton University. She won the Pulitzer Prize for her novel  Beloved,  and received even greater recognition when, in 1993, she received the Nobel Prize for Literature. Morrison was the first African-American woman to win the award. Born Chloe Anthony Wofford in Ohio on February 18, 1931, Morrison received her undergraduate degree at Howard University and later completed her master's degree at Cornell. In 1958, she married Harold Morrison, a Jamaican architect; they divorced six years later. While she worked full-time as an editor at Random House and raised her two sons, Morrison began writing her first novel,  The Bluest Eye.Sula  is her second novel, and deals with themes of race, womanhood, the effects of history, and the contingencies of love, examining how all four intertwine to affect the beliefs and actions of