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How literature celebrates April

TNN | Last updated on - Apr 11, 2017, 16:24 IST
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The month of April

“April is the cruellest month”, said T.S Eliot once drawing upon the tumultuous modern time of civilisation where reason subverted romance. Time and again, in literature, the month of April has been evoked either to paint a crude depiction of haplessness, or to delineate an airy romance of blissful hearts. But whenever April has been mentioned, it presented as a metaphor to delve into either of the extremes­ – damnation and paradise. Here are some of the most admired lines in literature that speak of April.
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On its wretchedness

T.S Eliot, "The Waste Land"
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On its verility

William Shakespeare, Sonnet XCVIII
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On its anomalies

George Orwell, 1984
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On its unpredictability

L.M. Montgomery, Anne of Ingleside
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On its loveliness

Rebecca McNutt, Shadowed Skies: The Third Smog City Novel
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On its negativity

Naguib Mahfouz, Adrift on the Nile
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On its innocence

Edna St. Vincent Millay, “Spring”
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On its joviality

Mark Twain
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On its futility

Alexander Smith, "A Life Drama"
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On its enchantment

Ralph Waldo Emerson, "April"

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