LITERATURE QUESTIONS
MISCELLENEOUS QUESTIONS
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Rudyard Kipling
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G. B. Shaw
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Toni Morrison
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Salmon Rushdie
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Detailed explanation-1: -"Oh, East is East and West is West, and never the twain shall meet"–Rudyard Kipling.
Detailed explanation-2: -(idiomatic) Used to emphasize that two subjects are so different that they cannot coexist or agree with each other.
Detailed explanation-3: -proverb Said of two things are too different to ever be agreeable or harmonious. The phrase comes from a Rudyard Kipling poem. If you learn young that East is East and West is West, you won’t waste time trying to convert people to your views. See also: and, east, never, shall, twain, west. Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.
Detailed explanation-4: -The culture of the West (Europe and the Americas) will always be very different from that of the East (Asia). (Twain means “two.”) This saying is part of the refrain of “The Ballad of East and West, ” a poem by Rudyard Kipling.