Introduction: “Dover Beach” is one of the early poems of Matthew Arnold. It was, however, published quite late in 1867 in New Poems. According to J. D. Jump, “Dover Beach is a short poem but it embraces a great range and depth of significance. As elsewhere, Arnold discloses his melancholy pre occupations with the thought … Read more
Three Major Themes in the Play: First, there is the theme of sin and expiation and atonement for that sin through suffering. Secondly, there is the theme of the oneness of time, the continuity of the past, the present, and the future, a theme which constantly recurs in the works of Eliot. Thirdly, there is … Read more
Keats’ High Imagination: Keats’ faculty of high imagination comes to light in his great odes. In Ode on A Grecian Urn for example, he imagines that the piper, the lover, the lady and the tree engraved on the urn have the blessings of eternity. The piper will never tired and his songs will never be … Read more
Sensuousness in the Poem: Sensuousness is the paramount quality of Keats’ poetical genius. Keats is pre – eminently the poet of the senses and their delights. No one has created to and gratified the five human senses (touch, taste, smell, sight and hearing) to the same extent as Keats. He is a great lover of … Read more
Galsworthy a Dramatist not a Propagandist: It was inherent with Galsworthy to put the problem facing the society as a sort of suggestive warning to the people and the administration to improve upon the norms and prevalent old, obsolete, untenable, crude, callous and uncalled for methods. He never actively tried them with his own hands. … Read more
Introduction of the Poem: Keats wrote in September, 1819, from Winchester to Reynolds about the background of the composition of the Ode to Autumn: “How beautiful the season is now — how fine the air — a temperate sharpness about it … I never like stubble – fields so much as now —aye, better than … Read more
Introduction: “An Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard” develops in the background of the Churchyard at Stoke Poges. Sitting there, the poet accounts for the rural activities at evening. The evening bell has warned people to cover their fires, put out their lights, and go to bed. The crying group of animals is going on … Read more
Critical Analysis of the Poem: Introduction: “An Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard” was published in 1751. It brought Gray into lime light and his genius was recognized. Its success was instantaneous and overwhelming. A dignified elegy in classical diction celebrating the graves of humble and unknown villagers was, in itself, such a novelty that … Read more
W. H. Auden A Modern Poet: W. H. Auden is an outstanding modern poet, standing next only to W. B. Yeats and T. S. Eliot. He justified throughout his career the position he quickly attained as the leader of a generation that followed Yeats and Eliot. He may not be as profound as Yeats … Read more
Wordsworth, A Seer and Mystic: Wordsworth is unanimously acknowledged as a mystic. Mysticism involves the perception of a divine unity behind the ordinary physical world. The mystic sees a divine unifying life in all lives and considers all things in the visible world as manifestations of the one divine life. In the words of Spurgeon, … Read more