The Lady of Shalott is a fascinating poem characterized with several elements of romanticism. Romanticism is often characterized as the ‘Renaissance of wonder’. It is also considered as synonymous with medievalism. Some critics find melancholy, some addition of strangeness to beauty, some liberalism, as the main features of romanticism. The Lady of Shalott is undoubtedly … Read more
Tennyson was a great descriptive artist. His art is essentially picturesque in the sense that he uses words as the painter uses his brush and colours for conveying his inner thoughts and feelings through his paintings. About his pictorial quality, Steadman has remarked, “Leaving the architecture of Tennyson’s poetry and coming to the sentiments which … Read more
Introduction: As we study the story of the novel “The Power And the Glory” we find that the writer has written it with a definite purpose. For example, the character of the whisky priest has been described by his outward actions as well as through dialogue with some other characters in the story. He has … Read more
Introduction: As we study the story of the novel ‘The Power and the Glory’ and some other novels of Graham Greene we find him pointing out evil as a significant part. He saw it in the world, so he tried to express it in the pages of his novels. The whisky priest in the present … Read more
Introduction: It was Aristotle who said that the function of tragedy is to arouse the emotions of pity and fear in the audience and by so doing effect a catharsis of these emotions. The pity is generally aroused at the contemplation of the tragic fate of the hero which results due to his blindness; the … Read more
Use of blank verse: Macbeth is, for the most part, written in blank verse. The basic unit of blank verse is a line in iambic pentameter without a rhyme scheme but, increasingly in his plays, Shakespeare’s use of this line and the number of its syllables and stresses became freer. A strict iambic pentameter … Read more
Introduction of the Poem ‘The Education of Nature’ is a part of the collection, he wrote under the title ‘Poems of Imagination’. This poem has another title, ‘Three Years She Grew in Sun and Shower’. It was composed in 1799 in the Hartz forest during Wordsworth stay in Germany. It was published in the second … Read more
Her Ideals: The Bird- Like Quality of Her Songs: The quality which lends charm to Sarojini Naidu’s verse, according to Arthur Symons, is the bird- like quality of song, which it contains. The poems in which this quality may be particularly and perceptibly visible are To My Fairy Fancies, To My Children and The Flute-Player … Read more
Sarojini Naidu’s Place and Position: The Koel of South, the nightingale of India, the peacock of Bengal, Sarojini Naidu as a poetess is half Keats, half-Yeats, partly in the tradition of the Indian devotional poetry, partly in the rut of the Pre-Raphaelites and the Georgian poets. Hence it is difficult to categorize her; she is … Read more
Gifts Endowed by Mother India to the World: As mentioned in Sarojini Naidu’s poem, the rich gifts that Mother India gave the world are the raiment, grain and gold. This refers to all the resources from agricultural productions to priceless metals which the foreign colonisers took to their country while they were ruling India. She … Read more