ENGLISH LITERATURE (CBSE/UGC NET)

Detailed explanation-1: -This is one of the best collections of essays that Mr. Huxley has ever made. The title-piece is a completely new departure in technique from anything he has written before: a meditation, darting from topic to topic, on the olive tree, and the associations which it has for the author.

Detailed explanation-2: -The olive tree is a sign of nature’s resilience and will to fight back. The persistence and diversity of nature are themes in the poem “To Kill an Olive.” Explanation: The poem depicts how olive trees are hacked down and damaged during times of conflict, but then grow back.

Detailed explanation-3: -His first published novels were social satires, Crome Yellow (1921), Antic Hay (1923), Those Barren Leaves (1925), and Point Counter Point (1928). Brave New World (1932) was his fifth novel and first dystopian work. In the 1920s, he was also a contributor to Vanity Fair and British Vogue magazines.

Detailed explanation-4: -In his piece Time and the Machine, Aldous Huxley argues that the idea of time as hours and minutes is an invention of modern societies centered around the rise of businesses and industrialization.