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HSC Summary Writing লেখার নিয়ম:

HSC Summary Writing লেখার জন্য কিছু নির্দিষ্ট নিয়ম ও কৌশল অনুসরণ করা উচিত। নিচে সেগুলি বিস্তারিতভাবে আলোচনা করা হল:

01. প্রথমে Passage বা Paragraph পড়ুন:

ধৈর্য্য সহকারে পুরো Passage টি পড়ুন।
Focus the main idea, message, and the key points of the passage.

কী কী বিষয় বা তথ্য Passage উল্লেখ করা হয়েছে, সেগুলি বুঝতে চেষ্টা করুন।

02.Identify the Main Points or Ideas:

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DREAM

D. H. Lawrence

All people dream, but not equally.

Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their mind,

Wake in the morning to find that it was vanity.

But the dreamers of the day are dangerous people,

For they dream their dreams with open eyes,

And make them come true.

SUMMARIZE

Summary: Dreams encourage and drive people to achieve their goal. People with such dreams are the real dreamers. The poet says all people dream but they do not dream in the same way. Some people dream when they sleep to rest after a long day’s labour. They sleep with a mind yet jammed with many wishes and wants. So some dreams of theirs are just wish fulfillments. On waking up they find that those dreams were all pointless and futile. These dreams can have no impact on their life. But there are some dreamers whom the poet calls dangerous people. These people dream with their eyes open which means they make their dreams consciously and from then on they start working to make those dreams come true.

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DREAMS

Langston Hughes

Hold fast to dreams

For if dreams die

Life is a broken-winged bird

That cannot fly.

Hold fast to dreams

For when dreams go

Life is a barren field

Frozen with snow.

SUMMARIZE

Summary: Dreams are those ideals and aspirations that we set for ourselves to achieve in life. The poem opens with an instruction from the poet to the readers to have a tight grip on their dreams. Without dreams, he says, life is like a bird whose wings are broken. A broken- winged bird can’t fly and just like that a man without a dream has life without destination. In the second stanza the poet repeats his advice to hold on to dreams because if there is no dream life will turn into a barren field. Life will be a field covered with snow. A snow -covered field cannot grow any crop. A barren field does not fulfill its purpose. A life is created to give and provide life to others. A life without dreams does nothing.

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THE SCHOOLBOY

William Blake

I love to rise in a summer morn,

When the birds sing on every tree;

The distant huntsman winds his horn,

And the skylark sings with me:

O what sweet company!

But to go to school in a summer morn,

O it drives all joy away!

Under a cruel eye outworn,

The little ones spend the day

In sighing and dismay.

Ah then at times I drooping sit,

And spend many an anxious hour;

Nor in my book can I take delight,

Nor sit in learning’s bower.

Worn through with the dreary shower.

How can the bird that is born for joy

Sit in a cage and sing?

How can a child, when fears annoy,

But droop his tender wing.

And forget his youthful spring!

O father and mother if buds are nipped,

And blossoms blown away;

And if the tender plants are stripped

Of their joy in the springing day,

By sorrow and care’s dismay,

How shall the summer arise in joy.

Or the summer fruits appear?

Or how shall we gather what griefs destroy,

Or bless the mellowing year,

When the blasts of winter appear?

SUMMARIZE

Summary: The speaker is a schoolboy. The poem opens on a fresh summer morning. He loves to be out in summer, listening to distant huntsmen and the birds, who sing along with him. He then complains against the constraints of education and the classroom, where students suffer under the cruel oversight of their teacher. He cannot learn or take any pleasure from his reading because of the stress it imposes. He asks rhetorically whether a bird born for joy can sing if it is confined in a cage. In the same way, how can a child, upset by the fears of school-life, not fail to droop and lose his youthful enthusiasm? School is nothing but a prison that negates the playful activity of childhood. The boy asks in the same way, how can there be a fruitful ‘summer’ for children if they, young plants, are stripped off their childhood joy and made to know sorrows and worries?

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Those Winter Sundays

-Robert Hayden

Sundays too my father got up early

and put his clothes on in the blueblack cold,

then with cracked hands that ached

from labor in the weekday weather made

banked fires blaze. No one ever thanked him.

I’d wake and hear the cold splintering, breaking.

When the rooms were warm, he’d call,

and slowly I would rise and dress,

fearing the chronic angers of that house,

Speaking indifferently to him,

who had driven out the cold

and polished my good shoes as well.

What did I know, what did I know of

love’s austere and lonely offices?

SUMMARIZE

Summary: The poem provides a brief window into a young man’s relationship with his father. He reflects on how every Sunday his father would work hard to keep the house warm and his family comfortable. The narrator comes to realize that he had never shown his father gratitude for everything he had done for him. In the end, he seems to realize love’s complicated nature – something he did not grasp when he was younger.

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Alone by Maya Angelou

Lying, thinking

Last night

How to find my soul a home.

Where water is not thirsty

And bread loaf is not stone

I came up with one thing

And I don’t believe I’m wrong

That nobody,

But nobody

Can make it outl here alone.

Alone, all alone

Nobody, but nobody

Can make it out here alone.

There are some millionaires

With money they can’t use

Their wives ran round like banshees

Their children sing the blues

They’ve got expensive doctors

To cure their hearts of stone.

But nobody

No, nobody

Can make it out here alone.

Alone, all alone

Nobody, but nobody

Can make it out here alone.

Now if you listen closely

I’ll tell you what I know

Storm clouds are gathering

The wind is gonna5 blow

The race of man is suffering

And I can hear the moan,

‘Cause nobody, But nobody

Can make it out here alone.

Alone, all alone

Nobody, but nobody

Can make it out here alone.

SUMMARIZE

Summary: The poem is about human bonding without which we are simply meaningless. The speaker feels pretty isolated, but she thinks she might have come up with an answer to her problems: one cannot survive in this cruel, evil, rough world; one needs someone throughout their journey with them. Money cannot buy happiness, and even the richest people feel the pains of loneliness. The speaker speaks of terrible things that are happening at present, and will continue to happen if people keep staying aloof from each other.

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06. HSC Summary Writing

FROM SEPTEMBER 1,1939

W. H. Auden

I sit on one of the dives

On Fifty-second Street

Uncertain and afraid

As the clever hopes expire.

Of a low dishonest decade:

Waves of anger and fear

Circulate over the bright

And darkened lands of the earth,

Obsessing our private lives;

The unmentionable odour of death

Offends the September night.

SUMMARIZE

Summary: This poem is a historical moment in time as it marks the beginning of the Second World War. The speaker is sitting in a dive bar (pub or bar) in New York City. He feels threatened as he sees the approaching of another war. Many so-called policies (particularly socialist economic schemes) adopted by the then policy makers (the British intellectuals) throughout the last 10 years (1930s) could not improve the lot of the working class except making it worse. They could not stop the growth of capitalist economy. Now there is anger in the air overshadowing the lands of the earth. It is bringing distress in people’s personal life. The speaker can smell the “unmentionable odour” of death upsetting the month of September because he can foresee this war will take away innumerable lives.

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A. The Lake Isle of Innisfree’ by W.B. Yeats

I will arise and go now, and go to Innisfree,

And a small cabin build there, of clay and wattles made;

Nine bean rows will I have there, a hive for the honey bee

And live alone in the bee loud glade.

And I shall have some peace there, for peace comes dropping slow

Dropping from the veils of the morning to where the cricket sings;

There midnight’s all a glimmer, and noon a purple glow,

And evening full of the linnet’s wings

I will arise and go now, for always night and day

I hear lake water lapping with low sounds by the shore;

While I stand on the roadway, or on the pavements grey,

I hear it in the deep heart’s core.

SUMMARIZE

Summary: The poet intends to go beyond the sorrows and chaos of daily life. He imagines a world of absolute peace. Its name is Innisfree. It is an island with all allurements of life. Sweet birds sing and the bees hum. The murmuring of the stream will keep the poet awake. On the other hand city life is full of grey troubles. Hence, he intends to make a flight to the lake Isle of Innisfree. It will provide him with absolute happiness.

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A. Minor Bird

-Robert Frost

I have wished a bird would fly away,

And not sing by my house all day;

Have clapped my hands at him from the door

When it seemed as if I could bear no more.

The fault must partly have been in me.

The bird was not to blame for his key.

And of course, there must be something wrong

In wanting to silence any song.

SUMMARIZE

Summary: The poem is about modern people who find it difficult to enjoy the beauty of nature. The narrator wants the bird to be gone. However, he soon realizes that the song that the bird sings is not harmful at all, but that it is actually beautiful. He later admits the fact that he has to accept it and live in harmony with nature and nature’s gifts.

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The Tyger

William Blake

Tyger, Tyger, burning bright,

In the forests of the night:

What immortal hand or eye

Could frame thy fearful symmetry?

In what distant deeps or skies

Burnt the fire of thine eyes?

On what wings dare he aspire?

What the hand, dare steze the fire?

And what shoulder what art,

Could twist the sinews of thy heart?

And when thy heart began to beat,

What dread hand? and what dread feet?

What the hammer? what the chain?

In what furnace was thy brain?

What the anvil? what dread grasp.

Dare its deadly terrors clasp!

When the stars threw down their spears

And water’d heaven with their tears:

Did he smile his work to see?

Did he who made the Lamb make thee?

Tyger, Tyger, burning bright,

In the forests of the night:

What immortal hand or eye,

Dare frame they fearful symmetry?

SUMMARIZE

Summary: The poem focuses on the beauty and ferociousness of creation in general. Throughout the poem, the speaker shows a sense of awe and wonder about the creation of the tiger. While observing the astounding symmetry of the tiger, he fails to understand how the same God who created the gentle lamb could also make the vicious Tiger. However, the poem reflects that humans cannot understand the supremacy of God and his work.

10. HSC Summary Writing

A. ‘She Walks in Beauty’ by Lord Byron

She walks in beauty, like the night

Of cloudless climes and starry skies;

And all that’s best of dark and bright

Meet in her aspect and her eyes;

Thus mellowed to that tender light

Which heaven to gaudy day denies.

One shade the more, one ray the less,

Had half impaired the nameless grace

Which waves in every raven tress,

Or softly lightens o’er her face;

Where thoughts serenely sweet express,

How pure, how dear their dwelling-place.

And on that cheek, and o’er that brow,

So soft, so calm, yet eloquent,

The smiles that win, the tints that glow.

But tell of days in goodness spent,

A mind at peace with all below,

A heart whose love is innocent!

SUMMARIZE

Summary: The poem is about a beautiful lady. The poet relates the lady to natural objects. All the beautiful things find their dwelling place in this lady’s aspect. Her beauty is contrasted to the ‘gaudy’ daylight. In the second stanza, she is considered the ‘nameless grace’, sweet, pure and dear. The final stanza returns to her face, but again sees the silent expression of peace and calm in her cheek, brow, and smiles. Her pleasant facial expressions eloquently but innocently express her inner goodness and peacefulness. And finally the poet concludes that she has a heart whose love is innocent.

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‘I Died For Beauty’ by

Emily Dickinson

I died for beauty, but was scarce

Adjusted in the tomb,

When one who died for truth was lain

In an adjoining room.

He questioned softly why I failed?

‘For beauty,’ I replied.

‘And I for truth – the two are one;

We brethren are,’ he said.

And so, as kinsmen met a-night,

We talked between the rooms,

Until the moss had reached our lips,

And covered up our names.

SUMMARIZE

Summary: The poem is about the speaker who seems to be dead and lying in the tomb. The speaker says that she died for Beauty, but she was hardly adjusted to her tomb before a man who died for Truth was laid in a tomb next to her. When the two softly told each other why they died, the man declared that Truth and Beauty are the same, so that he and the speaker were “Brethren.” The speaker says that they met at night, “as Kinsmen,” and talked between their tombs until the moss reached their lips and covered up their lips and names.

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I HAVE SEEN BENGAL’S FACE

Translation of Jibanananda Das’s “Banglar Mukh Ami Dekhiyachhi” by Fakrul Alam

Because I have seen Bengal’s face I will seek no more;

The world has not anything more beautiful to show me.

Waking up in darkness, gazing at the fig-tree, I behold

Dawn’s swallows roosting under huge umbrella-like leaves. I look around me

And discover a leafy dome-Jam, Kanthal, Bat, Hijol and Aswatha trees-

All in a hush, shadowing clumps of cactus and zedoary bushes.

When long, long ago, Chand came in his honeycombed boat

To a blue Hijal, Bat and Tamal shade near the Champa, he too sighted

Bengal’s incomparable beauty. One day, alas. In the Ganguri,

On a raft, as the waning moon sank on the river’s sandbanks,

Behula too saw countless aswaths bats besides golden rice fields

And heard the thrush’s soft song. One day, arriving in Amara,

Where gods held court, when she danced like a desolate wagtail,

Bengal’s rivers, fields, flowers, wailed like strings of bells on her feet.

SUMMARIZE

Summary: The poet feels that his thirst for beauty has been so quenched by the beauties of his motherland that he doesn’t need to see the beauty of the world any more. When he wakes up in darkness, he looks at the fig tree and finds the swallow birds there taking rest under large leaves. When it is dawn he discovers a heap of leaves of Black berry, Banyan, Jack fruit, Hijol and Tomal trees in the midst of complete quietness. And the heap casts a shadow on the cactus, zedoary bushes. The abundance of beautiful nature in Bengal is perpetual. The poet feels that this incomparable beauty of Hijal, Tomal and Banyan trees as if once charmed Chand Saudagar (a character from Hindu mythology) when he came to Champak in his honeycombed boat.

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