Harmony of life XI English Unit 5

Harmony of Life

Babu Appat

Good health is a state of complete physical, social and mental well-being

and not merely the absence of diseases or infirmity. Health is a

resource for everyday life, not the object of living, and is a positive concept emphasizing social and

personal resources as well as physical capabilities.

-WHO

About the Unit

This holistic concept of wellness is the basic premise of the unit,

Harmony of Life. It contains a short story, a poem and an essay

The short story “Gooseberries” by Anton Chekhov reflects on the

belief in pursuing one’s dream and doing whatever it takes to achieve

that.

The poem “To Sleep” by William Wordsworth underlines the

necessity of sound sleep

The essay “Going Out for a Walk” by Sir Henry Maxmilian Beerbohm challenges the nation that walking

is a productive mental exercise-especially when one is

accompanied by a talkative companion

Anton Chekhov

Anton Pavlovich Chekhov (Russian: Анто́нПа́влович Че́хов, pronounced [ɐnˈton

ˈpavləvʲɪtɕ ˈtɕɛxəf]; 29 January 1860 – 15 July 1904) was a Russian playwright and

short story writer, who is considered to be among the greatest writers of short fiction

in history.

His career as a playwright produced four classics and his best short stories are held

in high esteem by writers and critics. Along with Henrik Ibsen and August Strindberg, Chekhov is often referred to as one of the three seminal figures in the birth of early

modernism in the theatre.

Chekhov practiced as a medical doctor throughout most of his literary career:

"Medicine is my lawful wife", he once said, "and literature is my mistress.

William Wordsworth

William Wordsworth (7 April 1770 – 23 April 1850) was a major

English Romantic poet who, with Samuel Taylor Coleridge, helped to launch the Romantic Age in English

literature with their joint publication Lyrical Ballads (1798)

Wordsworth's magnum opus is generally considered to be The

Prelude, a semi-autobiographical poem of his early years that he

revised and expanded a number of times

It was posthumously titled and published, before which it was

generally known as "the poem to Coleridge". Wordsworth was

Britain's poet laureate from 1843 until his death from pleurisy on 23

April 1850

Max Beerbohm

Sir Henry Maximilian "Max" Beerbohm (24 August 1872 – 20

May 1956) was an English essayist, parodist, and caricaturist

He first became known in the 1890s as a dandy and a humorist.

He was the drama critic for the Saturday Review from 1898 until

1910, when he relocated to Rapallo, Italy

In his later years he was popular for his occasional radio broadcasts. Among his best-known works is his

only novel, Zuleika Dobson, published in 1911

His caricatures, drawn usually in pen or pencil with muted

watercolour tinting, are in many public collections.

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