Prof Hafiz Jamal Nasir

Explain Virginia Wolf remarks. The earth we stand on is made of colors the colors can be blown out; and then we stand on a dead leaf? In her essay “The Eclipse” Virginia Woolf describes in a highly dramatic manner a solar eclipse, probably the solar eclipse of June 29,1927 which was visible in England. Before the rosining of the sun everything looked pale. The river, farmhouse the fields and flowers were all pale, colorless. Then suddenly the sun rose and trees turned green, and the villages blue  brown under the pale blue sky. The sun began its usual march on the sky with patches of white clouds but the mood was creeping up the horizon, and covered shining disk of the sun all the colors vanished from the scene. The flesh and blood of the world was gone, it became a strange skeleton, withered and dead. What Virginia Woolf wishes to convey to the readers is that the colors that give our world its beauty and splendor are the creation of light, And the source o...

Why were people heading north? Describe their state of mind. One june night, Euston Railway Station in north western London was crowded with people. They were not ordinary passengers but they had gathered there to board a train heading towards north.  They were not going to north on pleasure trip. It was a strange purpose which had brought them there. They were going to Yorkshire to see the dawn. But it was not an ordinary sunrise they expected to see. That night. It seemed, the entire population England was travelling northward to see the dawn, the sky had become more real and important then the earth, an all those people were going north to watch the eclipse of the sun Scattered on the slopes of a hill, waiting for the dramatic rising and eclipse of the sun they seemed to have lost their identities. They looked like statues in a pale world, they felt that they were the inhabitants of some ancient age waiting in wonder and awe to statue the sun