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What is the Message of the Poem Frog and the Nightingale?

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    The poem The Frog and the Nightingale by Vikram Seth gives an important lesson that every person must understand his/her own abilities and talents and not be fooled by a critic who may not have the best intentions. One must develop self-confidence and belief in one’s own potential. The Nightingale,Read more

    The poem The Frog and the Nightingale by Vikram Seth gives an important lesson that every person must understand his/her own abilities and talents and not be fooled by a critic who may not have the best intentions. One must develop self-confidence and belief in one’s own potential.

    The Nightingale, in spite of being a very good singer, lacks confidence in itself and falls prey to the greedy and jealous frog who first exploits its skills by charging it for training and then ultimately becomes the reason for its death. Had the nightingale believed in itself, the situation would have been different.

    People nowadays fail to recognise their talents and also lack confidence in themselves. Hence, they fail in their lives though they have talent.

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Write Short Story of Frog and Nightingale.

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    Short Story of Frog and Nightingale by Vikram Seth goes as follows. A frog in the jungle keeps croaking the whole night. The animals are quite irritated because of its ugly and noisy croaking. They try a lot but fail to make the frog stop the noise. The frog, on the other hand, having full confidencRead more

    Short Story of Frog and Nightingale by Vikram Seth goes as follows. A frog in the jungle keeps croaking the whole night. The animals are quite irritated because of its ugly and noisy croaking. They try a lot but fail to make the frog stop the noise. The frog, on the other hand, having full confidence itself keeps the animals awake in the night.
    One day a nightingale visits the jungle and starts living there. Her voice is quite sweet and even the frog stops croaking to listen to it. One day frog meets nightingale and finding that the latter lacks self-confidence, frog talks high about himself and offers to help him sing sweeter.

    He also starts charging for tuitions to the nightingale. Doing this the frog earns a reputed status in the jungle. Nightingale soon makes herself better but loses the happiness that it once had.

    As the frog gets more jealous of the nightingale, it makes the latter to practice more. Ultimately, nightingale dies one day and the frog starts croaking again.

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Describe the Imaginary Conversation Between Frog and Nightingale.

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“The Frog and The Nightingale is Satire on Modern Society”. Explain.

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    The poem The Frog and The Nightingale written by Vikram Seth describes a short story in the jungle. A frog which has no talent in singing keeps croaking every night irritating all other animals. He has confidence and thus he doesn’t pay heed to the pleas of other animals. One day, a nightingale appeRead more

    The poem The Frog and The Nightingale written by Vikram Seth describes a short story in the jungle. A frog which has no talent in singing keeps croaking every night irritating all other animals. He has confidence and thus he doesn’t pay heed to the pleas of other animals.

    One day, a nightingale appears whose songs are quite sweet and are loved by other animals. The frog feels insecure and offers the nightingale to teach him how to sing better. Nightingale being less experienced and unconfident accepts the proposal gladly.

    Being jealous of Nightingale’s voice, the frog asks him to work harder and harder. The nightingale loses the joy which it once had. Ultimately it dies one day and the frog gets back it’s the old position.

    The poem symbolises the condition of our society. The frog that keeps making noise by croaking can be compared to people who have a secure position in the society but don’t have much talent. The nightingale represents those with talent but no confidence.

    The former leaves no stone unturned to keep their position secure. As soon as their rivals (here nightingale) appear, they try to throw them away.

    The poet thus advises us to be confident and enjoy rather than allowing others to interfere in our lives. One can live his life only when he believes in himself and does everything that he likes.

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Explain “The Frog and the Nightingale” Moral.

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    The Frog and the Nightingale by Vikram Seth is a symbolic poem in which the poet explains why self-confidence is important and that why one should do the things which he loves. In the poem, the frog maintains its status because of its confidence though it has no talent. On the other hand, the nightiRead more

    The Frog and the Nightingale by Vikram Seth is a symbolic poem in which the poet explains why self-confidence is important and that why one should do the things which he loves.

    In the poem, the frog maintains its status because of its confidence though it has no talent. On the other hand, the nightingale in spite of having talent dooms to death because it lacks self-confidence and is trapped in the words of the frog.

    Thus in this world, one should always have confidence in himself and should never allow anyone else to interfere in his life. One can enjoy his life and succeed only when he loving doing his work and never allows anybody to change him.

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What is the Central Idea of Poem The Frog and The Nightingale?

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    The central idea of the poem “The Frog and The Nightingale” by Vikram Seth is that self-confidence is very important for one to survive and succeed in this world. One can have matchless skills but if he has no self-confidence and belief in himself, he will fail someday. In addition, the people who aRead more

    The central idea of the poem “The Frog and The Nightingale” by Vikram Seth is that self-confidence is very important for one to survive and succeed in this world. One can have matchless skills but if he has no self-confidence and belief in himself, he will fail someday.

    In addition, the people who are successful never desire any other rival or competitor around them. Once a competitor tries to rise up, they leave no stone unturned to counter them and maintain their position in society. Hence, to become a successful one should try remaining far from such successful people.

    Had the nightingale not listened to the frog and believed in itself, her destiny might have been different.

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Explain “The Frog and The Nightingale” Theme Written by Vikram Seth.

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    There are mainly 2 themes in the poem “The Frog and The Nightingale” written by Vikram Seth: Importance of Self-Confidence At the beginning of the poem, we come to know that the frog has full confidence in itself and is proud of its singing though it lacks the skills. And because of this confidence,Read more

    There are mainly 2 themes in the poem “The Frog and The Nightingale” written by Vikram Seth:

    Importance of Self-Confidence

    At the beginning of the poem, we come to know that the frog has full confidence in itself and is proud of its singing though it lacks the skills. And because of this confidence, nobody dares to stop him from singing though all of the animals hate it for disturbing them.

    On the other hand, Nightingale has a quite charming and sweet voice and from the very first day, all the animals including the frog love its voice. The frog starts insecure. However, at their meeting, frog understands that nightingale lacks self-confidence and it is easy for it (frog) to exploit nightingale’s skills. First, he extracts money from it and finally leads it to its death.

    Never Believe Anyone Easily

    One of the grave blunders which nightingale commits is that it easily believes that frog is an angel for it and opens itself up before the frog. Having full confidence, it agrees to everything which the frog says. And finally meets its tragic end.

    In the world, one can easily succeed but to retain that success it tougher. When one tries becoming successful, other people who are dominating the society try to discourage, exploit and ultimately kill their competitors. Hence one should never believe in anyone too easily.

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Write a Note on “The First Time The Nightingale Sings”.

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    The lines refer to the day (in the poem The Frog and The Nightingale) when the nightingale visits for the time in the forest. All the animals were stunned by hearing its sweet voice. Even the frog was amazed and did not dare to sing before it. Read the complete summary of the poem or explore QuestioRead more

    The lines refer to the day (in the poem The Frog and The Nightingale) when the nightingale visits for the time in the forest. All the animals were stunned by hearing its sweet voice. Even the frog was amazed and did not dare to sing before it.

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Give “The Frog and The Nightingale” Character Sketch.

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    The Nightingale and the Frog are the protagonists of this poem. Both sing. But there is a difference of earth and sky in their traits. Frog’s Character Sketch In this poem, the frog is portrayed as proud, haughty, jealous, unskilled and quite clever. In the beginning, it irritates all the animals ofRead more

    The Nightingale and the Frog are the protagonists of this poem. Both sing. But there is a difference of earth and sky in their traits.

    Frog’s Character Sketch

    In this poem, the frog is portrayed as proud, haughty, jealous, unskilled and quite clever. In the beginning, it irritates all the animals of the forest by croaking in the night. It never listens to the requests of the animals. When it listens to the sweet voice of the nightingale, it is stunned and gets jealous.

    Feeling insecure, it plays a trick with the nightingale and makes it believe that it is the master of singing. It starts charging the nightingale for tuition classes and forces it to do overtime. Ultimately, it succeeds in regaining its lost position when the nightingale dies.

    Nightingale’s Character Sketch

    Nightingale, on the other hand, is quite skilful, sweet, shy and unconfident. With its extraordinary skills, it wins the hearts of the animals of the forest including the frog. However, the lack of confidence makes it a prey of the frog’s trick.

    It takes frog’s claims as truth and starts doing what the frog says. Soon, it loses the joy of singing which it once had. As it worked too hard, it lost its life.

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