Donne’s Religious Poetry: John Donne is one of the greatest of English religious poets. No doubt Donne’s religious poetry belongs to the later part of his career, to the period after his ordination, and the gloom, despair and frustration which resulted from the death of his wife, poverty, and ill health. The earliest of his … Read more
Introduction: Donne’s love poems were published in Songs and Sonnets after his death in 1663. The volume contains fifty – five poems in all. His whole reputation as a love poet depends on these poems. His remarkable poems include: The Sunne Rising, A Valediction Forbidding Mourning, The Canonization, The Extasie, The Blossome, The Flea, The … Read more
Introduction of the Poem: The poem entitled “Death Be Not Proud” is one of his popular “Holy Sonnets.” It deals with the theme of death. After Anne More’s death in 1617, John Donne was haunted with the fear of death. He was highly dejected at the death of his beloved wife. He felt himself alone. … Read more
Introduction of the Sonnet: This sonnet is addressed to Mr. W. H. It throws light on the matchless qualities of true love. In this sonnet the poet points out the immortality of true love. Shakespeare declares that true love is really the greatest power in the world. He points out the difference between true love … Read more
Introduction of the Sonnet: Sonnet No. 55 entitled “Not Marble, Nor the Gilded Monuments” is one of those which have been regarded as masterpieces in this series. In this sonnet, we find Shakespeare’s awareness of his own poetic genius and his knowledge that his poetry is of such high merit that it would continue to … Read more
Introduction: In the novel ‘Lord of the Flies’ the author Golding tries to bring Ballantyne’s coral island upto date. He wants to probe or examine it deeper into the human heart. It is a novel of boyish adventure in its external framework. The author has borrowed the external from Ballantyne’s coral island. It was published … Read more
Introduction: The title ‘Lord of the Flies’ can be traced to the Jewish hierarchy (order of the angels) of demons. There is reference to Beelzebule who is known as the Lord of the Flies. He was the chief representative of false Gods. The title, therefore, is appropriate to a novel which like a fable conveys … Read more
Introduction: William Golding was the son of a distinguished school master. He had become a school master himself and wrote deeply imaginative fables of human of condition of our times. This novel reveals Golding’s philosophy that good and bad can exist side by side in the darkness of a man’s heart. So, the world should … Read more
Introduction: It is a novel that reveals Golding’s philosophy that the world should restore principles in an unprincipled world. It should restore belief to a world of disbelieves. This is the hidden appeal and message of the novel Lord of the Flies. A pick of the British boys should have behaved better. This is the … Read more
Introduction: Mr. Lynd possesses his own style that comprises of all the case range and liveliness of conversation. He possesses the confidential manner of the personal essayist. His style is simple and less elaborate and hence, devoid of the mannerisms of R. L. Stevenson. His style possesses no superfluity of any kind. He has rightly … Read more