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The poem 'When You Are Old' is written by W.B Yeats, one of the foremost 20th-century poet who was also awarded the prestigious Nobel Prize for literature. In this poem, the poet claims his persistent and unaging love towards his muse, Maud Gonne even in her older age when she would lose her all elegance and beauty. Each stanza of the poem applies the rhyme scheme of ABBA. Rhyming Scheme - ABBA CDDC EFFE Stanza 1 In the stanza, the poet says that when old age and maturity surrounds his muse and she would have grey hair and probably doze at all times, he advises her to take that book and read it slowly and dream about her elegant eyes and their shadows which she had cherished in her youth.  Stanza 2 Although she may be loved by myriad suitors whom she mesmerizes by her 'glad grace' but Yeats questions their love and unfaithful pretensions of many of them. He considers himself the perfect candidate for her who is a devotee of her and her soul is a pilgrimage for hi

Thomas Babington Macaulay, a noted English political and literary figure wrote this essay in 1835 and his recommendations were included in the English Education Act of 1835 along with Lord Bentinck's. The essay is about Macaulay's suggestion to fund education in India in English medium in rather than wasting 'limited' resources of British on Indian vernacular languages such as Sanskrit or Persian. The essay begins with his idea of educating people of illiterate India in foreign medium i.e. English. He is so proud of the language that at first, he doesn't find the need to point the benefits of English language. He then illustrates the worth of the language and the rich content available in the fields of History, Polity, Jurisprudence(law), Metaphysics, Governance and emphasizes that Greek is no superior to English from which it derived many things. He intends to build the confidence of aspiring learner by describing how all the sublime intellectual material, inclu