English class 11 A photograph

 Chapter 01 (Poem)

       A Photograph                                                         The poet describes the photograph that captures interesting moments of her mother’s childhood

when she went for a sea holiday with her two cousins. Poet draws a contrast between the sea in

which the girls are standing and their transient feet to suggest shortness of human life and slow

changing sea. Poet also recollects how her mother would have laughed at the photograph and

felt disappointed at the loss of her childhood joys. Poet’s mother has been dead for twelve years.

In this situation she feels very sad and lonely. This loss has left her speechless. But she has

learned to reconcile with this loss with great difficulty. 

Class 11 english ch 8 Silk Road

 Chapter – 8 

Silk Road 

The author chronicles the challenges and hardships he faced in the Silk Road regions as they are 

now. The reader finds it refreshing to traverse such vast tracts of physical geography, expanses 

of the natural world that remain largely untamed. 

As a trade route, the Silk Road has been less a single highway and more a network of overland 

routes linking Europe with Asia, making trade possible between those with a passion for silk, 

horses and exotic fauna and flora. Just about every transaction imaginable has occurred along its 

many trails over the centuries. 

Middleton's particular passion consists of exposing himself to nature's vicissitudes like facing 

oxygen starvation in Tibet as he climbs towards the "navel of the universe," and other hardships 

during the journey. 

The author is an adventurer, but at heart more a meticulous academic than a daredevil. 

Researching the different forms of altitude sickness, he is alarmed to discover it can lead to 

swelling of the brain or to the lungs slowly filling with fluid. 

Having no religious inclinations himself, he begins to speculate on Tibetan Buddhism as a 

prerequisite for survival at such an altitude, yet makes the classic Western error of putting 

bodily discipline before mental striving. 

This account of the Silk Road, with its contrasts and exotic detail, certainly describes the 

challenges and hardships Middleton faced. However, if he had sacrificed some of the sense of his 

own heroism, and introduced instead more of a sense of wonder or of the absurd, the book 

would have proved a more entertaining read.

Class 11 english ch 6 the browning version

          Chapter - 06 

       The Browning Version 

The present extract is from the play “The Browning Version” written by Terence Rattigan which 

is focused on a good but unpopular school teacher Mr. Crocker ­ Harris. It vividly brings about 

the agony of a dedicated teacher who has a strict attitude towards his students. 

 It starts with the conversation between a school boy Taplow and another teacher Frank. 

Teachers like Frank encourage student like Taplow to make comments on their fellow teachers. 

Frank asks Taplow not to wait for Cracker­Harris and leave. But Taplow waits for him. 

In between Millie, the wife of Crocker Harris arrives there and sends him to chemist’s shop with 

a prescription. The play exhibits that the boy Taplow is much afraid of his teacher and has to 

stay till his arrival. In this extract the author brings out the character of Crocker Harris through 

Taplow in a direct contrast to Frank.

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