Read the following excerpt from Samuel Johnson's "Letter to Lord Chesterfield".Briefly summarize it within 100 words.
Is not a Patron,My Lord,one who looks with unconcern on a Man struggling for life in the Water and when he has reached ground encumbers him with help.The notice which you have been pleased to take of my Labours,had it been early,had been kind,but it has been delayed till I am indifferent and cannot enjoy it,till I am solitary and cannot impart it,till I am known and do not want it.I hope it is no very cynical asperity not to confess obligation where no benefit has been received,or to be unwilling that the Public should consider me as owing that to a Patron,which Providence has enabled me to do for myself.

Read the following excerpt from Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness.Briefly summarize the theme of the novel within 100 words.
Anything approaching the change that came over his features I have never seen before,and hope never to see again.Oh,I wasn't touched.I was fascinated.It was as though a veil had been rent.I saw on that ivory face the expression of sombre pride,of ruthless power,of craven terror-of an intense and hopeless despair.Did he live his life again in every detail of desire,temptation,and surrender during that supreme moment of complete knowledge? He cried in a whisper at some image,at some vision-he cried out twice,a cry that was no more than a breath:"The horror! The horror!"……

The following passage is taken from William Faulkner's "A Rose for Emily".Read the passage and make a brief analysis about the theme of the short story within 150 words.
It was a big,squarish frame house that had once been white,decorated with cupolas and spires and scrolled balconies in the heavily lightsome style of the seventies,set on what had once been our most select street.But garages and cotton gins had encroached and obliterated even the august names of that neighborhood; only Miss Emily's house was left,lifting its stubborn and coquettish decay above the cotton wagons and the gasoline pumps-an eyesore among eyesores.And now Miss Emily had gone to join the representatives of those august names where they lay in the cedar-bemused cemetery among the ranked and anonymous graves of Union and Confederate soldiers who fell at the battle of Jefferson.

Read the following excerpt from John Keats's "Ode to a Nightingale".Tell about the main idea of the whole poem within 150 words.
O,for a draught of vintage!
that hath beenCool'd a long age in the deep-delved earth,
Tasting of Flora and the country green,Dance,and Provencal song,and sunburnt mirth!
O,for a beaker full of the warm South,
Full of the true,the blushful Hippocrene,
With beaded bubbles winking at the brim,
And purple-stained mouth;
That I might drink,
and leave the world unseen,
And with thee fade away into the forest dim.

Write a short essay of 250-300 words in English on the comparisons between "A Psalm of Life" and "The Slave's Dream" in themes and tones.