• A charming, philosophical fairy tale by Oscar Wilde about a baby boy found

by a poor woodcutter in a bright and beautiful star. The woodcutter adopts

the boy, who grows up extremely beautiful but also arrogant and cruel. He
blinds and maims the animals of the forest, and shows no pity to those who
where weakly or ill-favored. One day he cruelly turns away a beggar-
woman, who is his mother, and his beauty is turned into ugliness. He begins
a quest to find his mother to beg her forgiveness. And finally apologize for
his cruel behavior.
• The poor beggar-women did know that the star child who threw stones on
her, and mocked her, was his own son to whom she lost in forest.
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The star child entered
WORDS in a city as a slave of magician. The magician asked
him to bring him three different colored gold pieces from wood otherwise he
will7beat him anddeepsurely
drift kept him as his slave
LINE NOand gave
WORDShim three hundred
stripes. Each time hetheir
they put made attempt to give the three gold pieces to his
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master but each time a beggar stood in his way and said “Give me a piece of
money” or I must die of hunger. so he gave all of theWhee! three stones
whee! whee! to the
11 save sorrow
bagger and each time he was beaten by his master, but when the people of
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the12city made star child
This, thing andtheir lord because of his this good attitude he did not
fell, from
know
13
that the king of the city was the same bagger.‘Tu-whit!
He, hastened
The bagger
Tu-whoo!was his
Tu-whit!
father and the queen was the same poor-women 6 and she was his original
mother.
14 she shivered
15 bid, beg, bread
16 When, winds 18) You are good looking
1) She was hanging motionless in air, before but not so now and
LINE17NO For, fair, fleet
WORDS, foot
for the Ice-King had kissed her. they drive him out of the
3) ‘The Earth is going to be married, garden.
and4 this is herTerribly
bridal dress,’ whispered
the Turtle-doves to each other.
8) Snow Great
is cruel to those who sleep
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in her arms.
10) Earth seemed to them like a flower of silver, and
Moon like a flower of
 An ode is a poem of celebration or praise. In an “Ode on Melancholy,” Keats
is praising melancholy instead of viewing it as a burden. Keats urges his
reader to not think about suicide when melancholy is about. He warns them
not to take poisons such as Wolf’s-bane, nightshade, and yew berries. He
believes that such things will improve melancholy, and melancholy is not an
emotion that should be improved In this poem, Keats uses contrast as the
key to pleasure. Melancholy is not the moment for death, but an opportunity
for a new experience. It is the fine balance between pain and pleasure that is
ideal. The final stanza emphasizes this idea: Beauty is always ephemeral; joy
is always about to leave, but these are man’s most intense moments. With
the realization that beauty is indeed short-lived comes intense melancholy,
which Keats defines as the “wakeful anguish of the soul.”
Keats does not suggest that one should avoid melancholy, or should one try
to cheer themselves up. He urges them instead to balance their pain with
tremendous pleasure and enjoy the contrast
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 IN LINE 5) your, yew FROM LINE 11) TO 20)
 IN LINE 9) shade, shade
 IN LINE11) fit, fall
 IN LINE 13) salt, sand
 IN LINE 18) her, hand IN LINE 16), 17) AND 18) Or
 IN LINE 19) deep, deep
 IN LINE 26) seen, save

 IN LINE 12) Sudden from heaven like a weeping cloud,

 IN LINE 20) she dwells with Beauty-Beauty that must die
 IN LINE 29) His soul shall taste the sadness of her might,
 IN LINE 16), 17) AND 18) Or