by admin | May 31, 2023 | William Golding
“Lord of the Flies” is a classic novel written by William Golding and first published in 1954. The story explores the dark side of human nature and the breakdown of civilization when a group of boys stranded on a deserted island descend into chaos and...
by admin | Apr 30, 2023 | Arab Feminism, Nawal El Saadawi
Looking into the dynamics of Nawal El Saadawi we find that she was a versatile genius. Apart from being a writer she was also a physician as well as a noted social activist. Critics and scholars are of the opinion that she was a feminist writer. She has written...
by admin | Mar 31, 2023 | Cinema and Literature
Abstract Literature has influenced the semiotics in modern cinema and has brought a new meaning to the expressions of the characters in the stories. This paper would analyse the journey of semiotic adaptations in the post modern cinema. A detailed understanding of the...
by admin | Feb 28, 2023 | War Poetry
Looking into the dynamics of war poetry we can witness the socio-political and cultural background prevalent during the period of First World War. In the present research work we will also notice the circumstances during war and its effect on the society. Critics and...
by admin | Jan 31, 2023 | Diaspora, Kiran Desai
The novelist Kiran Desai has won immense popularity after writing her second novel The Inheritance of Loss. This novel was published in the year 2006. It is a matter of great pride for the novelist that it won her the Booker Prize of 2006. Biju and Sai are two central...
by admin | Dec 28, 2022 | LOVE AND LITERATURE
It has always been a tough task to define love. It is a kind of expression which varies from person to person. We have already seen and studied the Platonic form of love. We have noticed that purity and divinity is associated with the Platonic version of love. Poets...
by admin | Nov 20, 2022 | Vidyapati
As the title of the work suggests, it is an attempt to give some fresh expositions of similarities and dissimilarities in the works of Vidyapati and British Poets. We know that Vidyapati was a kind of poet who has written poems on various subjects but in this chapter...
by admin | Sep 7, 2022 | Amitav Ghosh
The term ‘Post-Colonial’ has gained attention in recent times. In the writings of Amitav Ghosh there is post colonial consciousness. In the novel An Antique Land the novelist Amitav Ghosh talks about the history of Egypt. In The Shadow Lines we can find aspects of...
by admin | Aug 14, 2022 | My Creation
CHARACTERS:- Mohan : A young man of 25. Surya Kant: Mohan’s father. Rakesh: A friend of Mohan. Prem: Elder son of Surya Kant. Gayatri: would be Wife of Prem. Jiva: Father of Gayatri & Suhasini Suhasini: Sister of Gayatri. Madhu. Mother of Gayatri and Suhasini....
by admin | Jul 5, 2022 | American Literature, Hawthorne
Hawthorne starts this novel with an essay entitled “Custom House”. It provides a proper narrative framework to the novel and it also reflects the political and social history of America. In 1850 Hawthorne had given to his publisher the manuscript of The Scarlet...
by admin | Jun 7, 2022 | Bhabani Bhattacharya
Bhabani Bhattacharya is a kind of writer who writes about the realities of life. Steel Hawk and other stories is a short story collection which was published in 1968. He was highly inspired by the writings of Shakespeare and Tagore. His short...
by admin | May 7, 2022 | Nathaniel Hawthorne
Nathaniel Hawthorne was a kind of writer who was much ahead of his time. This present novel is another masterpiece which clearly reveals this fact. In this novel Hawthorne has again tried to yolk together his fantasy with some elements of realism. This novel has...
by admin | Apr 3, 2022 | American Literature
For Nathaniel Hawthorne, the definition of history is different. It is not only battles, annexation and colonization, but it is a desire for transformation and revolution. In The Scarlet Letter, the social as well...
by admin | Mar 3, 2022 | Vidyapati
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by admin | Feb 5, 2022 | Mulk Raj Anand
Women empowerment is the most discussed topic in post modern India. Different opinions are coming from almost all over the world for restoring the need for women empowerment. This is one of the reasons that today we are going to discuss women characters in the novels...
by admin | Jan 16, 2022 | John Keats
In reading of Keats’s “Ode to a Nightingale” I gain the perception that the text speaks not of the Nightingale but of the indeterminacies of experiences and contexts. To me it appears, that this impossibility to assert any certainties and...
by admin | Dec 2, 2021 | NTA NET
Examination held on 01/12/2021 Second Shift Few Questions Based on Memory 1. Shakespeare’s play within play – A Midsummer’s Night Dream 2. Characters from Waiting For Godot- ...
by admin | Nov 19, 2021 | John Keats
It is well known that John Keats was a great Romantic poet. We can also say that he was a genius who got inspirations from nature. During 1816 to 1820 he has produced several masterpieces. We can say that his literary career was brief but his output and literary taste...
by admin | Oct 21, 2021 | Arundhati Roy, Indian Literature
cross-stitch pattern, a criss-cross of contrasts in emotions, language and movement of time, The God of Small Things is superb in its architectonics. Violent love and violent hate form the warp and woof. The omniscient narrator chooses the time of Rahel’s...
by admin | Oct 5, 2021 | Harold Pinter
When we first see a new form of painting or listen to a new kind of mu sic, we realize that we have to make an adjustment in ourselves and our attitude if we are to get out of the experience. So it is with the plays of Harold Pinter and Samuel Beckett. Harold Pinter...
by admin | Sep 17, 2021 | GIC Exam Paper
1.Tennyson’s Poem In Memoriam was composed to commemorate the death of (a) Keats (b) Shelley (c) Arthur Hallam (d) Wordsworth 2.Arnold’s Empedocles on Etna is a/an: (a) Optimistic poem (b) Melodramatic poem (c) Colourful poem (d) Idealistic poem 3. T.S....
by admin | Sep 5, 2021 | Comparative Literature
The present paper is an attempt of inter-textual study of Paradise Lost and Srimadbhagvadgita which represent Christian and Hindu cultural milieus in English Renaissance and ancient India respectively. M.V. Rama Sarma T points out that “Milton’s knowledge...
by admin | Aug 16, 2021 | Shakespeare
It can hardly be disputed that in the twentieth century, Hamlet has “acquired the status of a myth!”1This “myth” has inspired dramatists to make and remake the play according to their own individual perspective of Shakespeare’s Hamlet....
by admin | Aug 7, 2021 | Indian Literature, Salman Rushdie
Salman Rushdie’s second novel, Midnight’s Children, published in 1981, has deservedly received worldwide acclaim. It is an extraordi nary blend of autobiography, history and fantasy. It presents three generations of the Sinai family over a period of...
by admin | Aug 4, 2021 | Indian Literature, Raja Rao
Ancient Sanskrit poetics has defined the concept of Sahrdaya or the ideal reader as one who, with the mirror of his mind clarified through repeated readings of the text, becomes identified with what is objec tified in it, and whose heart becomes one with the heart of...
by admin | Jul 18, 2021 | Indian Literature
Comparative Literature as a discipline has gained an academic status all over the world. Comparing two authors of different times and different linguistic backgrounds throws light on the cultural and social realities of the periods during which they lived and wrote....
by admin | Jul 4, 2021 | Katherine Mansfield
The objective of Katherine’s Mansfield is to create a new kind of writing through the use of fiction. Thus, there is departure from the conventional approach of writing fiction because the conventional approach focused merely on reporting and authorial observation....
by admin | Jun 15, 2021 | Children's Literature
Martha is a charming poem of Walter De La Mare. It is a poem for children and its theme is ordinary. Martha was a beautiful lady. She was a veteran story teller. She used to narrate her story in a valley full of hazal trees. She began her stories with the words ‘once…...
by admin | Jun 5, 2021 | Uncategorized
Q. Write the summary of the poem The Gifts of God Ans- ‘The Gifts of God’ is a devotional poem of George Herbert. It has a religious theme. It throws light on the relationship between God and man. God created amn and he wanted to make the life of a man blissful and...
by admin | May 21, 2021 | Booker Prize 2013
Eleanor Catton is a Canadian born New Zealand screenwriter and novelist. She has written two novels The Rehearsal and The Luminaries. Her second novel, The Luminaries won the Man Booker Prize in 2013 making her the youngest author to receive the honour. The book is...
by admin | May 12, 2021 | Man Booker Prize 2015
Marlon James has written many novels but his book A Brief History of Seven Killings won a Man Booker Prize in 2015 and it was inspired by the murder of Bob Marley who died when Marlon was a kid. Marlon is a professor at Macalester College where he teaches literature...
by admin | May 6, 2021 | Man Booker Prize 2017
George Saunders is an American writer famous for writing short stories, essays, novellas and children’s books. Lincoln in the Bardo is his first novel which won the 2017 Man Booker Prize in Fiction. Saunders imagines a moment of history and brings it to life in...
by admin | Apr 26, 2021 | Man Booker 2018
Anna Burns is an author from Northern Ireland. She has written three novels out of which Milkman has been awarded the 2018 Man Booker Prize, the 2019 Orwell Prize for political fiction, and the 2020 International Dublin Literary Award. The name of her other two novels...
by admin | Apr 18, 2021 | Emily Bronte
Emily Bronte had written few novels in her lifetime and her fame lies upon Wuthering Heights. Due to her death at a very young age, her career came to an end but she has written this novel keeping in mind the time and essence of the age she was living in. There are...
by admin | Mar 26, 2021 | Indian Literature
R.K. Narayan has been one of the prominent writers in Indian Writing in English. All his works reflect Indian tradition and culture in great detail. All his stories are centred around an imaginary place in South India called Malgudi. The Guide remains one of the best...
by admin | Mar 20, 2021 | criticism
Abstract Existentialism revolves around the story behind the human existence and talks about the meaning and purpose of life. It is a philosophical way of thinking and Soren Kierkegaard was the first philosopher to have an impactful thinking on existentialism. His...
by admin | Mar 18, 2021 | Thomas Gray
Thomas Gray has been one of the most prominent poets of English Literature and his fame lies upon the poem Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard although he has written many other works. The poem is one of the beautiful and finest elegies written in English...
by admin | Mar 13, 2021 | T.S.Eliot
T.S. Eliot has been one of the most prominent poets of the Modern Age. His works mainly emphasised modernism and its side effects. He has written many poems and among them, one is The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock. The poem is full of indecisiveness as the narrator...
by admin | Feb 25, 2021 | E.M.Forster
E.M Forster has made a genuine attempt to reconcile the racial differentiation in A Passage to India. By doing so the author presents his serious concern for unity and collectiveness. Human society can be happier only by understanding between religions and nations....
by admin | Feb 9, 2021 | Derek Walcott
Exiled experience of individuals has given rise to expatriate literature in contemporary period. The main reason behind it is the massive migratory movements across ages. For all the common wealth expatriate writers the reason for migration seems to be common. Writers...
by admin | Jan 28, 2021 | John Keats, Romantic Poetry
John Keats was a Romantic Poet who is known for his own sensibilities. In fact he is one of my most favorite poets. The present poem is an explanation of his mood which is eternal and blessed. At the age of twenty five he died of Tuberculosis. He has influenced...
by admin | Jan 17, 2021 | Romantic Poetry
Shelley has been considered as a poet of the younger generation in Romantic Literature. Scholars and critics agree that he is one of the supreme poets of Romantic Movement. French Revolution and its ideals failed to create positivism in the society but its ideas and...
by admin | Jan 9, 2021 | Hopkins
Hopkins belonged to Victorian age. He is a poet as well as a priest. He never wrote poems intentionally for publication. It was published by his friend Robert bridges later. The present poem is a sonnet which has been written in Petrarchan style. It has an octet as...
by admin | Jan 8, 2021 | Indian Literature
“The Souls Prayer” is a devotional poem of Sarojini Naidu. It appeared in her collection of poems The Bird of Time published in 1912. It illustrates the reality of life and death. In her childhood the poetess prays to God that she wants to know the secrets of...
by admin | Jan 7, 2021 | Indian Literature
English is not our mother tongue yet we study English because of several reasons. It is needless to say about its importance. Raja Rao has said in the Foreword to Kanthapura that- “One has to convey in a language that is not one’s own. The spirit is one’s own. One has...
by admin | Jan 3, 2021 | poetry
Central Idea A Psalm of Life is a didactic poem of H.W.Longfellow. it was first published in 1839 in his book The Voices of the Night. Here he gives us an optimistic picture of life. Scholars and critics of different nationalities have agreed that life is a dream....
by admin | Dec 23, 2020 | Kamala Das
This poem has been written by Kamala Das. She is a renowned poet as well as a short story writer. She writes both in English as well as Malayalam. Her autobiography entitled My Story (English) was published in 1976. It is interesting to note that she was also...
by admin | Dec 8, 2020 | W.B.Yeats
“Sailing to Byzantium” is a poem written by 1923 Nobel Laureate W.B.Yeats in the year 1926. Two years hence it was first published in the 1928 collection ‘The Tower.’ One of Yeat’s most inspired works and one of the greatest poems of the twentieth century, it tells...
by admin | Dec 3, 2020 | T.S.Eliot
T. S. Eliot’s lengthy poem “The Waste Land” is fragmented into five parts entitled: 1) The burial of the Dead; 2) A Game of Chess; 3) The fire Sermon; 4) Death by Water; 5) What the Thunder Said. The fifth section “What the Thunder Said”...
by admin | Nov 30, 2020 | T.S.Eliot, Uncategorized
T. S. Eliot’s lengthy poem “The Waste Land” is fragmented into five parts entitled: 1) The burial of the Dead; 2) A Game of Chess; 3) The fire Sermon; 4) Death by Water; 5) What the Thunder Said. The fourth section “Death by Water” which...
by admin | Nov 26, 2020 | T.S.Eliot
T. S. Eliot’s lengthy poem “The Waste Land” is fragmented into five parts entitled: 1) The burial of the Dead; 2) A Game of Chess; 3) The fire Sermon; 4) Death by Water; 5) What the Thunder Said. In the third section “The Fire Sermon”...
by admin | Nov 19, 2020 | Partition Literature
A 1955 publication by twentieth century colonial Indian-Pakistani writer Saadat Hasan Manto, Toba Tek Singh is an engrossing and profound short story about the relationship between India and Pakistan, a satire on the idea of partition. Manto, known for his daring...
by admin | Nov 16, 2020 | T.S.Eliot
T. S. Eliot’s poem “The Waste Land” is fragmented into five parts entitled: 1) The burial of the Dead; 2) A Game of Chess; 3) The fire Sermon; 4) Death by Water; 5) What the Thunder Said. In the second section “A Game of Chess” which is...
by admin | Nov 10, 2020 | T.S.Eliot
T. S. Eliot’s lengthy poem “The Waste Land” is considered a modernist masterpiece of the 20th century. The poem was written after World War I. This period was full of war, increasing urbanization leading to modern life. Hence people were isolated and...
by admin | Nov 6, 2020 | Henry Fielding
The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling, simply known as Tom Jones, is a comic novel by English playwright and novelist Henry Fielding (1707-1754). It was first published on 28 February 1749. Tom Jones is a comic romance and narrated in 18 books. The concept of the...
by admin | Nov 2, 2020 | poetry
Thomas Stearns Elliot born on September 26, 1888, was an essayist, a critic, a playwright, and one of the well-known poets of the twentieth century. He won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1948. In the poem Macavity: The Mystery Cat,Thomas Stearns Elliot sketches a...
by admin | Oct 23, 2020 | Metaphysical poetry
John Donne (1572-1631) was an English poet and cleric in the Church of England. He was a metaphysical poet famous for his songs, poems, and sonnets. From his collection of love poems, one is “Sweetest love, I do not goe”. In this poem or song, he addressed his wife...
by admin | Oct 14, 2020 | criticism
Formalism is a term which has generalized meaning. It has been emerged from particular schools and movements which we study in Literary Criticism. Aristotle has defined the characteristic features of tragedy. It means that he has laid foundation of a structure. Thus,...
by admin | Oct 4, 2020 | Imagism
T.E.Hulme is credited as father of Imagism. Understanding Imagism is easy if studied subjectively. It was a movement in America and England during early twentieth Century. In London it was organized by American and English poets. It was influenced by Haiku which is a...
by admin | Sep 30, 2020 | Edward Bond
In Contemporary Society Edward Bond is looked differently among the entire writer’s of Britain. He is one of the most innovative as well as controversial playwright of his age. His school of thought is wide-ranging and diverse. He is an authoritative critique of the...
by admin | Sep 27, 2020 | Gandhi Jayanti
Mahatma Gandhi is such a legend that his aura looms gigantic in our consciousness. We cannot think him to be more than just a statue standing in a public place. It seems that in modern day his place matches best on currency bills. It is our tribute to him that we feel...
by admin | Sep 18, 2020 | BSTET EXAM, Uncategorized
Exam held on 18/9/2020 shift timing 12 pm to 2.30 (Based on Memory) 1. Oedipus complex in D. H. Lawrence can be found in? Answer- Sons and Lovers (BSTET ENGLISH) 2. A pattern of accented and unaccented syllable in poetry is called as- Answer- metre 3. Who called keats...
by admin | Sep 17, 2020 | BSTET EXAM
Q.1. Jawahar Lal Nehru returned to India in which Year (a) 1921 (b) 1922 (c) 1923 (d) 1924 Q.2. The Jungle in Sunlight and...
by admin | Sep 12, 2020 | BSTET EXAM
Q.1. Caxton’s printing press in London was set up in which year? (a) 1476 (b) 1478 (c) 1480 (d) 1485 Q.2. How Many essays...
by admin | Sep 8, 2020 | Indian Literature
The White Tiger is Aravind Adiga’s debut novel which won him the prestigious 2008 Booker Prize. After Salman Rushdie, Arundhati Roy and Kiran Desai he becomes the fourth Indian born author to win this prize. In this novel we can find a humorous perspective of class...
by admin | Sep 7, 2020 | Chinua Achebe
Chinua Achebe was a novelist, poet, critic, professor from Nigeria. He is remembered most for his first novel Things Fall Apart (1958). In modern literature it is the most circulated and widely read book. He was fascinated with traditional African cultures as well as...
by admin | Sep 5, 2020 | New Insight
If Dr.Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan would have been alive today then the story of teachers could have been different. Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan was born on 5th of September 1888. He became the second president of India. In his honor this date is celebrated as Teacher’s Day...
by admin | Sep 1, 2020 | Indian Literature
Sanskrit drama is associated with divinity and it is equally applicable to Poems written in Sanskrit as well as Maithili. Vidyapati was a very influential Poet and his works were circulated in Maithili, Abahatta and Sanskrit. Kalidasa considers the four Vedas to be...
by admin | Aug 26, 2020 | Shakespeare
The poem ‘All the World’s a stage’ is an extract from Shakespeare’s drama As You Like It. It is a speech of Jaques. He is a character who is a skilled philosopher. He makes a vivid picture of human life. It has been said by Shakespeare that life of a man is a drama...
by admin | Aug 17, 2020 | Nissim Ezekiel
Nissim Ezekiel was awarded the Sahitya Akademi Award in 1983. He is one of the most celebrated Indian Poets of the post colonial India. In his writings we can notice a deep philosophical and religious awareness which has motivated a lot of young writers of India and...
by admin | Aug 14, 2020 | Irish Literature
For seven hundred years from 1169 the English made earnest though costly attempts for the political and cultural subjugation of Ireland. Within two centuries the political conquest was almost over but the cultural aggression could never be completed. By the 19th...
by admin | Aug 13, 2020 | Ezra Pound
Ezra Pound has defined poetry in The Wisdom of Poetry. It has artistic purpose which Dante advocated- “That melody which most doth draw The soul into itself.”...
by admin | Aug 11, 2020 | W.H.Auden
It is interesting to find that a recurring theme of class struggle can be found in the poems of WW.H.Auden. Marx has once remarked that class struggle is common in every kind of society. It is worthy to quote him as he says- “the history of all hitherto existing...
by admin | Aug 10, 2020 | Drama
It has been said by different scholars and critics that in every country drama originated out of religion. This is typically true about the English Drama. There was nothing like drama in old English Literature. Dialogue there might have been but dialogue alone does...
by admin | Aug 9, 2020 | American Literature
Ernest Hemingway was a kind of person who sought this world differently. His area of interest was very vast. He always believed in realism and his sense of realism always attracted him to visit several places. This is one of the reasons that he visited many...
by admin | Jul 29, 2020 | George Eliot
This novel has been written by George Eliot. It was first published in 1860 in three volumes. It is considered as one of the best psychological fictions written by George Eliot. A period of ten to sixteen years has been covered in the present novel. The author has...
by admin | Jul 23, 2020 | Indian Literature
Ghasiram Kotwal is a landmark in Marathi folk theatre. This play was first presented on Sixteenth of December 1972 by the Progressive Dramatic Association. In this play the playwright has shown the elegant blend of ancient folk tradition and modern theatrical...
by admin | Jul 14, 2020 | Christopher Marlowe
Doctor Faustus is a play about knowledge, about the relation of a man’s knowledge of the world to his knowledge of himself. We can also say that it is about knowledge of means and its relation to knowledge of ends. Faustus’ fanatical longing for power makes his own...
by admin | Jul 5, 2020 | Partition Literature
A Bend in the Ganges is a novel written by Manohar Malgonkar in 1964. In the opening of the novel we can find the elements associated with the civil disobedience movement. There is fine blend of swadeshi movements in this novel. This novel is one of the finest...
by admin | Jun 24, 2020 | Hardy
Thomas Hardy like Wordsworth and Keats is a great lover of nature. It is noteworthy to find that he himself has lived like shepherds and he perceives nature with purity. He was born and brought up among the shepherds of Wessex. He displays a very close and intimate...
by admin | Jun 11, 2020 | George Eliot
The subtitle of the novel Middlemarch is A Study of Provincial Life. It is a very interesting novel written by George Eliot. She used a male pen name Mary Anne Evans because during that time female authors were not so popular. It is noteworthy to find that this novel...
by admin | May 31, 2020 | William Golding
Introduction It is the first novel of William Golding which was published on 17th September 1954. This novel is chiefly known as an allegorical novel. One of the most striking features of allegorical novel is that it is symbolical. The characters portrayed in this...
by admin | May 25, 2020 | Romantic Poetry
This is a poem written by William Wordsworth. It was composed in 1802 but finally it got published after five years of its composition in 1807. It is known to us that Wordsworth was closely associated with nature and he is one of the most famous poets of the Romantic...
by admin | May 23, 2020 | Reading
It is needless to point out the importance of reading books. We all know that it is one of the qualities which separate human beings from animals. Critics and scholars have said that every idea or action which is taken by human beings has already been written in a...
by admin | May 17, 2020 | Partition Literature
Train to Pakistan is a novel written by Khushwant Singh in 1956. Khushwant Singh is a kind of writer who is known for his sense of realism. Train to Pakistan is a partition novel. In this novel we can find a beautiful blend of history and fiction. The division...
by admin | May 12, 2020 | Metaphysical poetry
Samuel Johnson has written in Lives of the most eminent English Poets that in the beginning of the 17th Century there “appeared a race of writers that may be termed the metaphysical poets”. Metaphysical poets were known for the use of conceits. If we...
by admin | May 7, 2020 | Pope
The Rape of the Lock is the best known mock epic narrative poem written by Pope. Dr Johnson called it “the most airy, the most ingenious and the most delightful of all his compositions.” The extended version in five cantos was published in 1714, embodying for the...
by admin | May 6, 2020 | Romantic Poetry
La Belle Dame Sans Merci is a French title which means “The Beautiful lady without mercy.” This poem has been written by John Keats in form of a ballad. There are two versions of this poem having minor differences between them. It was written in 1819. The poet has...
by admin | Apr 30, 2020 | W.M.Thackeray
Vanity Fair is a novel written by a British novelist William Makepeace Thackeray. In this novel we can find various interesting characters. It was first published in serial form which people liked the most. There were 19 volume monthly serial which attracted people...
by admin | Apr 26, 2020 | criticism
It was an intellectual movement which was started in France in 1950’s. Claude Levi Strauss and Roland Barthes are closely associated with this movement. One of the most striking features of this movement is the concept that-...
by admin | Apr 23, 2020 | poetry
Langston Hughes has written this poem from Afro-American perspectives. It first appeared in 1926 in the collection entitled The Weary Blues .This poem is also known as “I Too sings America”. There was a time when African Americans were not considered as citizens of...
by admin | Apr 22, 2020 | Harold Pinter
Plays of Harold pinter have always been a puzzle for readers and scholars. There are so many interpretations of his plays and it is left up to the readers to find the relevancy of those interpretations. In the plays of pinter there is a recurring theme related to the...
by admin | Apr 20, 2020 | Creative Writing
Is it accurate to say that you are searching for article composing sites so you can begin acquiring cash on the web? Independent article composing offers you the chance to earn a lot. Real content writers are gaining cash through some good websites. Article...
by admin | Apr 6, 2020 | Restoration Comedy
The comedy of manner is a unique product of the Restoration era. It reflects the spirit of the age. The period between 1660 and 1700 is known as Restoration Period because monarchy was restored in England when Charles II returned back to England from exile and became...
by admin | Mar 31, 2020 | Milton
John Milton’s Lycidas first appeared in 1638, is a collection of elegies, mostly Latin. It was written on Edward King, Milton’s contemporary at Cambridge University, who had been drowned in the Irish sea. Milton did not compose Lycidas on spontaneous impulse. King had...
by admin | Mar 19, 2020 | novel
The Great Gatsby is a novel published in 1925. It has been written by a renowned American author F.Scott Fitzgerald. The fictional town of East Egg and West Egg has been used as the setting of this novel. In this novel themes like idealism, decadence, stubbornness and...
by admin | Mar 14, 2020 | Dystopia
This is a novel written by George Orwell which was published in June 1949. This novel is considered as a dystopian novel. It was the ninth and last novel written by Orwell during his life time. The theme of the novel deals with totalitarianism. The future of the...
by admin | Mar 13, 2020 | Romantic Poetry
This poem is composed by William Wordsworth. He introduced the feeling of romanticism to the world through his poems. He is regarded as the prolific romantic poet along with others. He wanted to communicate the feeling of nature to public in a lucid way. This poem is...
by admin | Mar 12, 2020 | Anton Chekhov
Summary This Play has been written by the famous Russian Playwright Anton Chekhov. The Cherry Orchard is a play which deals with the lives of people living in Russia. The main theme of the play is preoccupied with Liberation of the serfs. The activity covers the...
by admin | Mar 11, 2020 | Romantic Poetry
This poem has been written by P. B. Shelley who is regarded as one of the finest writer of Romantic Movement. He loves to write on nature and there is a perfect blend of plot and setting in almost all of his writings. He was a straight forward person who wrote mainly...
by admin | Mar 8, 2020 | Toni Morrison
Toni Morrison is an American writer who wrote Beloved in 1987. The story of this novel begins in Cincinnati in 1873. The protagonist of the novel is Sethe. She lives at Cincinnati with her eighteen year old daughter Denver. Baby Suggs her mother in law also lived with...
by admin | Mar 4, 2020 | Indian Literature, Uncategorized
This play Abhijnanasakuntalam is the story of Sakuntala and Dushyanta which is narrated by Rishi Vaishampayana in ‘Adi Parva’. It is a part of Mahabharta, the great Indian epic. Kalidasa has written this play from this source and many creative changes has been...
by admin | Feb 11, 2020 | Uncategorized
Today In almost every country people take education only to get a good job. In countries like India people wish to get government job. Students who prepare to enroll themselves in government job go through a hectic preparation. There are so many competitive exams in...
by admin | Jan 5, 2020 | American Literature
Walt Whitman in America is also known as People’s Poet. He was born in 1819 and in his writings we can find individualism. He also worked as a Carpenter, teacher, printer, editor as well as a volunteer nurse. His poems are collected in a volume entitled Leaves of...
by admin | Dec 14, 2019 | Ben Jonson
The theme of avarice has been used in Volpone. Three classical units have been kept in mind while writing this comedy play. We can also find logical sequence of events in this play. The story is unfolded according to the advancement of plot and character. Major and...
by admin | Dec 8, 2019 | Romantic Poetry
This poem is one of the finest poems of John Keats. It is one among the six great tragedies written by Keats. He is considered as the most sensual poet of the Romantic Movement. The current poem was written in May 1819. Keats was born on 31 October 1795 and his life...
by admin | Nov 22, 2019 | Romantic Poetry
This is a very beautiful poem written by John Keats. He was a poet of the Romantic Movement. In this poem he has written about stages of autumn in three stanzas. These stanzas depict nature truly. The first stanza is about maturation in which the season of autumn...
by admin | Nov 13, 2019 | Indian Literature
This Poem has been written by Sarojini Naidu. She was also known as the ‘Nightingale of India’. She was not only a poet but a versatile genius. She was a true nation builder. The most famous volumes credited to her are The Golden Threshold(1905), The Bird of...
by admin | Oct 20, 2019 | Modern Poetry
This poem has been written by W.B.Yeats. The original title of the poem was “The old Pensioner” which came in 1890 and the current poem “The Lamentation of The Old Pensioner” is a revised version of it which came in 1939. The life span of W.B.Yeats is from 1865 to...
by admin | Oct 10, 2019 | Modern Poetry
This poem has been written by Robert Frost. Life span of the poet is from 1874 to 1963. He is known as New England poet. He has won four Pulitzer prizes. At the inauguration ceremony of President John F Kennedy he delivered his poem entitled “The gift outright”. ...
by admin | Oct 6, 2019 | Romantic Poetry
This poem is written by William Blake. In 1789 which was the beginning of French Revolution William Blake brought his songs of innocence. The current poem “The Chimney Sweeper” is a part of it. The poet has used first person narrative technique in this poem. The first...
by admin | Oct 3, 2019 | sonnet
Shakespeare is one of the greatest poet and playwright of the Elizabethan Period. He was born in Stratford-upon-Avon in England in 1564. He wrote 154 sonnets. The current poem “The marriage of true minds” is sonnet number one hundred and sixteen. In this poem nature...
by admin | Oct 2, 2019 | Indian Literature
it is a lyrical poem taken from Gitanjali written by Rabindra Nath Tagore. It is a kind of poem which is patriotic in nature. It is actually a prayer to God to move the country from slavery to ideal freedom. It is interesting to find that the entire poem is actually a...
by admin | Sep 17, 2019 | American Literature
A close reading of Moby-Dick clearly reflects the influence of Shakespeare, Carlyle and Sir Thomas Browne upon Herman Melville. His style of writing is not common and he has added new experiences in the genre of American Literature. The characters are so inspiring...
by admin | Sep 5, 2019 | Metaphysical poetry, Uncategorized
“The Flea” is one of the most celebrated poems written by John Donne. The poet is famous for writing metaphysical poetry. To understand this form of poetry we will have to understand the farfetched imagery which the poet uses in his poems. In the current poem the...
by admin | Sep 3, 2019 | Modern Poetry
Turning and turning in the widening gyre The falcon cannot hear the falconer; Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold; Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world, The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere The ceremony of...
by admin | Sep 1, 2019 | Shakespearean tragedy
Hamlet is the most successful and famous play written by William Shakespeare. To understand it as a revenge tragedy we will have to understand about the literal meaning of revenge. According to Wikipedia revenge can be defined as- “Revenge is defined as the act...
by admin | Aug 29, 2019 | Shakespearean tragedy
In King Lear there are so many themes but justice is one of the most important themes which can be found in this article in detail. There are so many kinds of justice but first of all let us define it. According to Wikipedia justice is- “The concept of justice is...
by admin | Aug 27, 2019 | 14th century
Looking into the dynamics of Langland’s Piers the plowman it is one of the most famous English satires. To talk about satire we must know the kind of society prevailing at that time. That was the age of transition when entire feudal system was cracking. 14th Century...
by admin | Aug 26, 2019 | Arthurian story
As per chivalry is concerned the era of 15th Century was full of the ideas associated with valor and power that guided the spirit of knighthood. In Le Morthe D’Arthur Malory presents us a fine mosaic of so called chivalry and romance that is always a splendor of great...
by admin | Aug 12, 2019 | Romantic Poetry
The term “Romanticism” has been defined by several authors and critic in their own way. Some calls it “addition of strangeness to beauty” while Watts Dunton defines it as “the renaissance of wonder”. All such definitions are unsatisfactory and very much partial and do...
by admin | Jul 30, 2019 | figure of speech
The simile: here two dissimilar things are compared to each other. There are two kinds of simile namely the simple simile and the Homeric or Epic simile. In the simple simile the comparison is without any elaboration. Thus it is brief and direct. In the Homeric or...
by admin | Jul 29, 2019 | Uncategorized
It is not sure that Longinus has given the theory of sublimity yet conventionally it is referred to his name. It is a literary criticism dated to first century. It is work upon aesthetics and Longinus has tried to guide us to sublimity. It is written in...
by admin | Jul 13, 2019 | Dryden
MacFlecknoe is a very famous mock-heroic poem written by Dryden. It is also known as mock-epic. It is a kind of poetic form which uses the structure similar to an epic but it is not an epic. It is typically a satire or a parody which mocks stereotypes. It...
by admin | Jul 12, 2019 | Indian Literature
The setting of the novel can be identified with the home rule movement or swadeshi movement in Bengal. This novel was originally published in Bengali with a title Ghare Baire in 1915. It was further translated in English by Surendra Nath Tagore with some help from the...
by admin | Jul 5, 2019 | Spenser
Plato has influenced many writers and created several milestones in English Literature. Horizons of Poetry suddenly widened under his influence and poets as well as readers enjoyed this changing. it was a kind of journey from known to unknown. this fresh and splendid...
by admin | Jun 27, 2019 | Uncategorized
few questions based on memory- Q.1. which novel of Anita Desai deals with an insane wife killing her husband? Answer- I have already written blog on Anita Desai and the right answer is Cry, The Peacock. Q.2. what is the Greek origin of word comedy? Answer- komodios...
by admin | Jun 18, 2019 | Jane Austen, novel
As per humor is concerned Austen’s humor is not applicable in a particular class or country but it has a universal appeal. Humor can be best seen as a tool of irony but it is also ironical that Austen lacks serious irony. She never wrote to correct society but...
by admin | May 30, 2019 | history of comedy
Comedy like tragedy also began at the festival of Dionysus. The worship of Dionysus, once extremely popular in both cities and villages, survived only in villages. The original Greek word for village is Komai. A band of revelers in villages gave birth to comedy. The...
by admin | May 26, 2019 | sonnet
Looking into the dynamics of sonnets, it has been defined as a poem consisting of fourteen lines and following a definite pattern of rhyme scheme. Sonnets marked their presence according to the feelings and music of hearts earlier in Italy and it was Petrarch who...
by admin | May 21, 2019 | Charlotte Bronte
There are so many stages in the novel Jane Eyre which deals with day to day life of the heroine. She is in the centre of the story and we learn about her from very beginning. The story uncovers her childhood, her school life, her role as a governess, her role as a...
by admin | Oct 6, 2022 | Khushwant Singh
Looking into the dynamics of The Company of Women we find that this novel is the first Indian novel which deals with sexuality and its consequences. This novel has been written by Khushwant Singh. It got published in 1999. The protagonist of the novel is driven by his...
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