tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29727915863528168892026-03-20T03:58:01.520-07:00A Nocturnal upon St. Lucy’s Day Adam's Curse Dejection: an Ode Kubla Khan Porphyria’s lover,Tintern Abbey, Oliver Goldsmith: The Deserted Village Sordello Sylvia Plath: Life 'n' Works The Ecstasy The Good-Morrow The Waste Land To His Coy Mistress Sister Carrie- Dreiser Wordsworths's view about the place of feelings and emotions in poetry. Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger36125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2972791586352816889.post-44707162659499431872020-05-28T09:15:00.001-07:002020-05-28T09:25:38.213-07:00

The term ‘diction’ signifies the choice phrasing and using of words attractively and beautifully in any work of literature. Poetic diction is such a kind of diction, which is deemed suitable to poetry alone. Since the time of Aristotle there has not been any consensus of opinion as to what constitutes proper poetic diction. The poets of the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries found a style in

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Nissim Ezekiel is one of the most significant poets of post independence Indian English verse. He was born of a Jewish parents. Poverty and poetry were his companions. He was a prolific writer and journalist and contributed articles to a number of reputed journals and periodicals. He was the editor of 'Quest'. His remarkable works are 'sixty poems', 'The Third', 'The Unfinished Man', 'The Exact

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William Wordsworth was not only a great poet but also a great critic. He expounded his views on poetry, its nature and function of a true poet in his &nbsp;“Preface to the Lyrical Ballad”. As regards the nature of poetry he clearly states that “Poetry is the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings”. In other words poetry comes from the internal feelings of the poet. It is a matter of

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Sorojini was one of Mother India‘s gifted children. She readily shared the pain of the country, fiercely articulated her agonies and hopes and gallantly strove to redeem the mother and redeem the time. In course of time the patriot exceeded the poet. She occupied some of the highest unofficial and official position in the public life of India. She travelled widely in India and overseas for the

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Shakespeare has been so much written about, has been praised in such superlative terms and has been analysed with such subtlety that one despairs of adding anything new. Shakespeare excels in so many qualities that is hard to pin point the one excellence which may be said to distinguish him from all other writers. We can express Lyly, Marlow, Ben Jonson each in a single formula. But Shakespeare

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&nbsp;Sister Carrie (1900) is written by Theodore Dreiser about a&nbsp; 18 years old country girl who moves from village to big city to make her dreams come true. The second half of the nineteenth century witnessed major transformations in every walk and aspect of American life. From a predominantly agrassion country America turned into a major industrial power. Large scale urbanization

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Tintern Abbey William Wordsworth FIVE years have past; five summers, with the length Of five long winters! and again I hear These waters, rolling from their mountain-springs With a soft inland murmur. -- Once again Do I behold these steep and lofty cliffs, That on a wild secluded scene impress Thoughts of more deep seclusion; and connect The landscape with the quiet of the sky. The day is come

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Loving in truth, and faine in verse my love to show,That she, dear She, might take some pleasure of my pain,Pleasure might cause her read, reading might make her know,Knowledge might pity win, and pity grace obtain,I sought fit words to paint the blackest face of woe;Studying inventions fine, her wits to entertain,Oft turning others’ leaves, to see if thence would flowSome fresh and fruitful

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In the opening line of “Canonization” – “ For God sake hold your tongue, and let me love” the poet urge not to be disturbed by an outsider’s speech in his act of love, the poet asks the intruder to keep quiet. He suggest a few alternatives for the intruder in ‘canonization’. He wants to speak then he can chide the poet’s palsy, gout, five gray hairs of ruined fortune, or the intruder can also do

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Kubla Khan is the masterpiece of S.T. Colridge. ‘Kubla Khan’ was written in 1798 and published in 1816. In the introduction of ‘Kubla Khan’ the circumstances have been discussed that prompted to write the poem:‘In the summer of the year 1797, the author, then in ill health and retired to a lonely farm-house between Porlock and Linton, on the Exmoor confines of Somerset and Devonshire. In

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The Rape of the Lock is the masterpiece of Alexander Pope. It is not merely a classic among the mock epics. It is a great satire too. The Rape of the Lock is a triumph of Pope’s poetic genius. Pope was a neo-classicist and wrote the unique mock-heroic poem the “The Rape of the Lock” when he was twenty-three. The poem was first published in 1712. In 1714 Pope elaborated it to five Cantos by

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Hyperion: A fragment is the masterpiece of John Keats. The poem is usually called as Hyperion. Hyperion is in blank verse. It is in unrhyming iambic pentameter lines. Hyperion narrates the war between two groups of gods, the Titans and the Olympians. The Olympians have defeated the Titans. The absolute ruler of the Titans, Saturn, is sadly sitting alone like a stone. There is no stir in the air.

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The Deserted Village: Oliver GoldsmithThe Deserted Village is the masterpiece of Oliver Goldsmith(1728-1774). The poem was first published on 26th May 1770. The strong infusion of personal feeling suggests that Auburn may have been the Irish village of Lissoy of Goldsmith’s child hood.In the poem ‘The Deserted Village’ Oliver Goldsmith portrays the simple rustic life and happiness. He is

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Lines Composed A Few Miles Above Tintern Abbey: William WordsworthComposition:The poem Tintern Abbey was composed in July 1798 . The poem was first published in the Lyrical Ballads.The setting: The Tintern Abbey is situated on the bank of the river Wye. The Wye is a mountain river and it flows through England. Tintern Abbey is a famous ecclesiastical ruin.Substance: The calm and quiet beauty of

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Lines Composed A Few Miles Above Tintern Abbey: William WordsworthComposition:The poem Tintern Abbey was composed in July 1798 . The poem was first published in the Lyrical Ballads.The setting: The Tintern Abbey is situated on the bank of the river Wye. The Wye is a mountain river and it flows through England. Tintern Abbey is a famous ecclesiastical ruin.Substance: The calm and quiet beauty of

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She walks in Beauty: Lord ByronText: She Walks in Beauty was written in 1814 by Lord Byron.The poem is about Mrs. Ann Beatrix Horton, the wife of Byron’s second cousin.She walks in beauty, like the nightOf cloudless climes and starry skies,And al that’s best of dark and brightMeet in her aspect and her eyes;Thus mellow’d to that tender lightWhich heaven to gaudy day denies,One shade the more, one

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The Tyger (The Tiger)The poem ‘The Tyger, is taken from Blake’s songs of Experience which appeared in 1794.Text:Tyger! Tyger! Burning brightIn the forests of the night,What immortal hand or eyeCould frame thy fearful symmetry?In what distant deeps or skiesBurnt the fire of thine eyes?On what wings dare he aspire?What the hand dare seize the fire?And what shoulder, and what art,Could twist the

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The poem ‘Bishop Orders His Tomb at St.Praxed’s Church’ was first published in Hood’s Magazine in 1845 with the name ‘The Tomb at St. Praxed’s’. Later Bowning changed the name and called it ‘Bishop Orders His Tomb at St.Praxed’s Church’. Browning does not tell us the Bishop’s name. He might have in mind the life of Cardinal Ippolito d’ Este, the Younger who was a materialistic vain and extremely

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An Acre of Grass: W.B. YeatsText:Picture and Book remain,An acre of green grassFor air and exercise,Now strength of body goes;Midnight, and old houseWhere nothing stirs but a mouse.My temptations is quiet,Here at life’s endNeither loose imagination,Nor the mill of the mindConsuming its rag and boneCan make the truth known.Grant me an old man’s frenzy,Myself must I remakeTill I am Timon and LearOr

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Nonne Preestes Tale:Scheme of the Tale:The Nun’s Priest Tale collocates a number of stories. Some of them are about dreams told by the cock Chanticleer and the Priest. The widow tells the other story. The dream stories are embedded in the fable, the fable story is embedded in the window’s story and the widow’s story in the Priest’s, the Priest’s story is embedded in the Canterbury Tales which is

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Nonne Preestes Tale-Introduction: Geoffrey Chaucer is the greatest English writer before Shakespear and the the earliest of the greatest moderns. “The Canterbury Tales” is his master piece. The “Nonne Preestes Tale” is one of the finest tales of the ‘Canterbury Tales’. It is the eleventh Tale among the twenty complete tales of Chaucer in his scheme of one hundred twenty four tales in ‘The

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Sordello in Mantua :OverviewSordello is the main character of the poem named after him. He is a troubadour- a poet. He hanks after name, fame, power and money. He is invited to a song-contest at the court in Mantua, in Italy. His friends receive him warmly but the enemies conspire. He sings there. Men and women praise him. He participates in the song contest and defeats the court poet, Eglamor.

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