Compiled BY S NAGARAJAN

Date: 18 April 2016

 

Post No. 2735

 

Time uploaded in London :–  5-56  AM

 

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FROM MY 50 YEARS NOTEBOOKS

FUN WITH ENGLISH

 

ALL ABOUT POETS!

 

S.NAGARAJAN 

(FROM NOTEBOOK)

 

WORLD OF POETS

—————————

 

A POET WHO SPENDS MUCH

                     – STEPHEN SPENDER

 

A POET WHO IS HARD IN WORDS

                     – THOMAS HARDY

 

A POET WHO LIES LEAST

                      – WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS

 

A POET WHO HAS BRIDGES ON HIS OWN

                      –  ROBERT BRIDGES

 

A POET WHO PLAYS WITH WORDS

                        –   WILLIAM WORDSWORTH

 

A POET WHO LIVES IN A SHELL

                        –   PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY

 

A POET WHO JUMPS SEEING A LAKE

                           –    WILLIAM BLAKE

 

A POET WHO SHAKES HIMSELF

                             –     WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE

 

 

AGE OF POETS

———————–

LUDVICO ARIOSO                     59  (ITALIAM POET)

ROBERT BURNS                         37  (SCOTTISH POET)

BYRON                                          36

JOE BRAINARD                          52 (AMERICAN POET)

SAMUEL BUTLER                      67

VICTOR HUGO                           83

WILLIAM WORDSWORTH     80

OLIVER GOLDSMITH              46

SHAKESPEARE                                  52

EDWIN ARNOLD                                32

ALFRED LORD TENNYSON            83

GOTHE                                                 83

JOHN MILTON                                   66

PERCY  BYSSHE SHELLEY            30

T S ELIOT                                             77

WALT WHITMAN                             73

KAHLIL GIBRAN                              48

OMAR KAYYAM                                83

MOHEMED IQPAL                            61

BANKIN CHANDRA CHATTARJE 56

RAVINDRANATH TAGORE            80

SAROJINI NAIDU                              70

DILIPKUMARROY                            83

SUBRAMANYA BHARATHIYAR    39

KAVIYOGI SUDDHANANDA

BHARATHIYAR                                  93

PAPANASAM SIVAN                          83

KAVIMANI DESIKA VINAYAGAM  78

NAMAKKAL RAMALINGAM

PILLAI                                                     84

KANNADASAN                                      54

BHARATHIDASAN                              93

 

 

 

FROM MY 50 YEARS NOTEBOOKS

FUN WITH ENGLISH

 

A SHAKESPEAREAN IDYLL

 

S.NAGARAJAN 

(FROM NOTEBOOK)

 

WHO WERE THE BRIDE AND BRIDEGROOM?

 

• ROMEO AND JULIET

 

WHEN DID HE PROPOSE?

 

• TWELFTH NIGHT

 

 

WHAT DID HE SAY?

 

• AS YOU LIKE IT

 

 

FROM WHERE WAS THE RING OBTAINED?

 

    –  THE MERCHANT OF VENICE

 

 

WHO WERE THE CHIEF GUESTS?

 

• ANTONY AND CLEOPATRA
• TROILUS AND CRESSIDA

 

 

WHO WERE THE BRIDEGROOM’S FRIENDS?

 

• THE TWO GENTLEMEN OF VERONA

 

 

WHO PREPARED THE WEDDING BREAKFAST?

 

• THE MERRY WIVES OF WINDSOR

 

 

WHAT WAS THE HONEYMOON LIKE?

 

• A MIDSUMMER NIGHT’S DREAM

 

HOW WOULD YOU DESCRIBE THEIR QUARREL?

 

• THE TEMPEST

 

 

THEY HAD  MANY OTHERS, WHAT WAS THEIR MARRIED LIFE LIKE?

 

• COMEDY OF ERRORS

 

 

WHAT WAS THE BRIDEGROOM’S CHIEF ACCUSATION?

 

• THE TAMING OF THE SHREW

 

 

WHAT DID SHE GIVE HIM?

 

   – MEASURE FOR MEASURE

 

 

WHAT DID THEIR FRIENDS SAY?

 

  – ALL IS WELL THAT ENDS WELL

 

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