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Class 11

English Elective: Woven Words

84 lessons in 27 chapters, explained in plain words.

The Lament

  1. Snow, a cab and an officer
  2. Three young men and a busy street
  3. The stable and the little horse
  4. Reading 'The Lament' closely

A Pair of Mustachios

  1. Moustaches and class
  2. The moneylender's moustache
  3. The deed and the pauper
  4. Reading the satire

The Rocking-horse Winner

  1. The house that whispered
  2. Riding for luck
  3. Partners and a secret gift
  4. More than ever
  5. Malabar

The Adventure of the Three Garridebs

  1. A strange name
  2. A rigmarole of lies
  3. The third Garrideb
  4. Killer Evans
  5. The trapdoor

Pappachi's Moth

  1. Pickles and a brass vase
  2. The moth
  3. Telling a life in six pages

The Third and Final Continent

  1. Three continents
  2. Say 'splendid'!
  3. Mala, and an evening routine
  4. One hundred and three
  5. A perfect lady
  6. Beyond imagination

Glory at Twilight

  1. What now?
  2. The wheel of fortune
  3. A hero's welcome
  4. Twilight splendour
  5. The snare of benediction

The Luncheon

  1. I never eat anything for luncheon
  2. Asparagus, ice-cream and a peach
  3. Twenty-one stone

The Peacock

  1. What poetry is; a flash of turquoise
  2. The tail that blinks

Let Me Not to the Marriage of True Minds

  1. Love is not love which alters
  2. Not Time's fool

Coming

  1. It will be spring soon
  2. Like a child who starts to be happy

Telephone Conversation

  1. I am African
  2. West African sepia
  3. Suggestion and understatement

The World is too Much With Us

  1. Getting and spending
  2. Great God! I'd rather be a Pagan

Mother Tongue

  1. Give me a quill
  2. My mother tongue is Dogri

Hawk Roosting

  1. I sit in the top of the wood
  2. I hold Creation in my foot

For Elkana

  1. A warm April evening
  2. Mummy, I want my dinner, now

Refugee Blues

  1. No place for us
  2. Two tickets to Happiness

Felling of the Banyan Tree

  1. Trees are sacred
  2. This slaughter
  3. Grows and seethes in one's dreams

Ode to a Nightingale

  1. My heart aches
  2. Thou wast not born for death
  3. Forlorn! the very word is like a bell

Ajamil and the Tigers

  1. Fifty tigers and one sheep dog
  2. Ajamil wasn't a fool

My Watch

  1. What an essay is; a perfect watch
  2. Fever, mummies and a swelled barrel
  3. Too much steam

My Three Passions

  1. Three passions like great winds
  2. Knowledge, pity, and agape

Patterns of Creativity

  1. We murder to dissect
  2. Darwin's confession; Faraday's joke
  3. Unacknowledged legislators

Tribal Verse

  1. Literature without writing
  2. Oceans fly as birds
  3. Not folklore but literature
  4. Three songs

What is a Good Book?

  1. Books of the hour and books of all time
  2. The company of the Dead
  3. Dig like a miner

The Story

  1. Yes—oh dear yes—the novel tells a story
  2. Scheherazade
  3. Life in time and life by values

Bridges

  1. Born to live
  2. Hands that hung loose
  3. The off-beat path
  4. Bridges