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 … Read more
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, … Read more
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 … Read more
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 … Read more
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 … Read more
There are, of course, many similarities between the Comedy of Manners and the Comedy of Humours. Both are based on reality. Both commonly attack anti-social elements and both are sarcastic, but the difference between the two is so much clear that there is no scope for doubt. The Comedy of Manners makes fun of those … Read more
1. Introduction A lyric is a subjective manifestation of the poet’s impressions. It possesses the following qualities (1) unity of impression (2) brevity (3) personal emotion. It passes through the poet’s heart and soul and reflects his mood. Intellect and passion are also found in it. Edmund Gosse says: “If his songs were not so … Read more
Introduction A Summer Night is one of the more important poems of Matthew Arnold. As in several other poems; in it also live is seen in the light of its end. It is written in a stoic fashion. It appeared in the 1853 volume of Arnold’s poems and has been much praised by critics like … Read more
According to Arthur Crompton-Rickett, there are three Brownings; Browning the passionate singer of love and youth and the world of sense; Browning the curious explorer of devious ways of human experience: and Browning the fearless fighter of a firm believer of the immortality of the human soul. In his own days, he was praised for … Read more
‘Ulysses’ is Tennyson’s finest dramatic monologue. It was written soon after his intimate friend Arthur Hallam’s death in 1833 and was published in the poems of 1842. To put it in the words of the poet himself, in this poem Tennyson gave his feelings about the need of going forward and braving the struggle of … Read more
