WILD FLOWERS ALONG THE WAY
“You smiled and talked to me of nothing; and I felt that, for this, I had been waiting long.” Rabindranath Tagore I write these blog posts, almost daily. I am very fond of reading good Prose and Poetry. The new words, idioms and phrases, figures of speech, proverbs and quotations simply fascinate me. In fact, I have written, edited and published over thirty books on behalf of the Dawn Club. Some of these books have been about improving one’s English. But, then, it looks very strange to me, when I reflect on my own situation in school and college while learning Prose and Poetry… I wasn’t good in both. The first time I started loving good English literature was in my twelfth standard. There was a Jesuit priest to teach us English classics, such as Shakespeare’s famous Plays and Poetry. It was the first time, that I woke up to the beauty of Old English… King Lear, Julius Caesar, Merchant of Venice, Romeo and Juliet and so on. We, also, had good English teachers to teach u...