It had happened when I was ten or eleven years old. I had decided to learn to swim . There was a pool at the Y.M.C.A. in Yakima, that offered exactly the opportunity. The Yakima River was treacherous. Mother continually warned against it, and kept fresh in my mind the details of each drowning in […]
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William Shakespeare, the renowned Elizabethan dramatist, and all-time great playwright of the world wrote four great tragedies among his many outstanding (dramatic and poetic) works. They are (I) Hamlet (II) Othello (III) King Lear, as well as (IV) Macbeth. Drama Macbeth Writer William Shakespeare Theme (1) Ambition (2) Violence (3) Internal conflict Published November 8,
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Tennyson is one of the greatest poets of the Victorian Era. As a poetic artist, he ranks with Shakespeare and Keats. Tennyson often reminds us of Keats. He has the same gifts of pictorial presentation and an astonishing command of the musical resources of the language. His poems offer us many opportunities of discovering the
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Chief Characteristics of the Victorian Novel : Defects Charles Dickens is a representative novelist of the Victorian age. He highlights, in his novels, the various virtues and voices of the Victorian novel. As a novelist, he assimilated all the qualities of the novelists of his age. We come to know of certain common features which
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To Kill a Mockingbird is a novel set in the 1930s in a small town in Alabama. It tells the story of Scout Finch, a young girl whose father, Atticus, is a lawyer. The story begins with Scout and her older brother, Jem, exploring their neighborhood and playing games. They are soon joined by their
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