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Robert Browning: Some Glimpses from his Life & Works Robert Browning, best known for his dramatic monologues, was an eminent poet of the nineteenth century. He did not achieve fame all of a sudden. In fact, he had to struggle to make his name shine in the galaxy of the poets of eminence in English Literature. Let’s have a microscopic view of his life of works. He was born on May 7, 1812 in Camberwell, London. His father was a senior clerk in a bank and mother an excellent pianist ( / ˈpiː. ə n.ɪst /   ) and there would be no exaggeration if we say that he inherited love for music from his mother. He developed his love for reading books because there was his father’s a big library in the house. He wrote his first poem Pauline A Fragment of a Confession in 1833, when he was too young, so the poem proved to be an open expression of his feelings. In a way, he lays his soul bare to a patient heroine. J. S. Mill (John Stuart Mill) commented on this poem: “…that the po...

Some Multiple Choice Questions on the poems of Class XII My Mother at Sixty-six by Kamala Das Q1. To which place the poetess Kamala Das is going along with her mother in a car? 1.     Chennai 2.    Bengluru 3.    C ochin 4.    Trivendrum Q2. From which poem the following lines have been taken? “…see you soon, Amma, all I did was smile and smile and smile.” 1.     Keeping Quiet 2.   Aunt Jennifer’s Tigers 3.   The Roadside Stand 4.   My Mother at Sixty-six Q3. What was the childhood fear that poetess Kamala Das talks about in her poem ‘My Mother at Sixty-six’? 1.    She had fear of punishment from her father. 2.    She had fear of being punished by her teacher. 3.    She had the fear of having nightmares at night. 4.    She had the fear of being separated from her mother. Q4. How did the poetess Kamala Das discard her fear and worry a...