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Bring out the humour in the story, The Prize Poem.
P.G. Wodehouse is a humorous writer. His stories are full of fun. The story the Prize Poem also belongs to this category. The very title of the poem is ironical. The very concept of competition gets defeated when four students write the same lines at the beginning. All the students were asked to present their poem written by each one of them. It is humorous that most of the students has no poetic fire or imagination in them. Yet they were forced to write the poem. Another hu…
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Theme of the story 'The Prize Poem' by P.G. Wodehouse
The name of
the story is ‘The Prize Poem’ written by P.G. Wodehouse. The
story is based on the theme that ‘nobody can be forced to become a poet’.
In this extract, Wodehouse describes how in a school the students of the Sixth Form
were compelled to compete for the prize-poem. A grown up student, Reynolds, who
was convalescing in an Infirmary wrote four lines on several pieces of paper
that were accidentally blown away.
Thus the
poems submitted by three students began exactly …
Summary of the Story "The Prize Poem" by P.G. Wodehouse
A long time back there was a rich man who hated mankind. He wanted his own memory to live foreven after his death. He had a bright idea. He made a will in which he kept apart a portion of his income to be spent on annual prize for the best poem submitted by a student of Sixth Form of St. Austin’s college. The poem was to be written on a subject chosen by the Headmaster. Every student of the Form was required to compete. Most of the students were not in a position to write a …
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