In Tennyson's long poem In Memoriam, he utilizes nature as a metaphor to describe his emotions after the death of his friend Hallam. Throughout the poem, Tennyson refers to aspects of nature like trees, water, leaves to project his feelings of sadness or happiness. In the beginning, he sees a dead yew tree as representative of death, but later discovers life within it as his own grief lessens. Water imagery, like a dam and flooding, also represents his fluctuating emotions. By observing nature's cycles of life and death, Tennyson is able to reconcile his faith in God and come to terms with his friend's death.
Anton Chekhov was born in 1860 in Taganrog, Russia to a family that had previously been serfs. As a young man, he moved to Moscow and began writing comic stories to pay for his medical school tuition. He was later diagnosed with tuberculosis and died of the disease in 1904. The provided document also includes a character list for Chekhov's play The Cherry Orchard.
Aristotle's Poetics discusses the principles of tragedy and epic poetry. It defines tragedy as the imitation of an action that is serious, complete, and of a certain magnitude, which through pity and fear brings about the catharsis or purification of such emotions. Aristotle analyzes the key elements of tragedy including plot, character, thought, diction, song and spectacle. He describes the ideal tragic hero and provides guidance on plot construction and the proper use of dramatic techniques like peripety and anagnorisis in tragedy.
The document provides an analysis of T.S. Eliot's modernist poem "The Waste Land" in 3 parts:
1. It summarizes the poem's structure consisting of 5 sections that use collages of images and allusions to myths.
2. It analyzes major themes of spiritual/cultural malaise in the modern world and the universality of the themes of life/death.
3. It discusses how characters like Tiresias and the use of mythical techniques give unity and provide cultural context for the poem's fragmented images.
Matthew Arnold was a 19th century British poet and cultural critic. He worked as a school inspector after marrying in 1851. Arnold published several volumes of poetry and was appointed Professor of Poetry at Oxford University in 1857. He is considered one of the major Victorian poets along with Tennyson and Browning. Arnold used his poetry to philosophize about finding meaning and happiness in life. He also wrote extensively about education and culture.
John Dryden (1631-1700) was an influential English poet, literary critic, translator and playwright. He established the heroic couplet as the dominant poetic form of the 18th century. As a poet, he published works celebrating historical events that established him as the preeminent poet of his generation. As a playwright, he wrote successful plays after Shakespeare, including heroic plays, tragicomedies and tragedies. He also translated major classical works into English. Dryden made massive contributions to English literature as one of the most important figures of the Restoration period.
This document provides information about Victorian literature and the poet Robert Browning. It summarizes Browning's life, influences, styles of poetry including dramatic monologues, and analyzes some of his most famous poems like "My Last Duchess" and "Porpheyria's Lover." The document also discusses key characteristics of Victorian literature such as its emphasis on order, morality, and influence of science.
This document provides an overview of T.S. Eliot's important literary works and critical writings. It discusses his poems such as The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock and The Wasteland. Eliot's critical essays examined the nature of criticism and analyzed authors like the Metaphysical poets. The document also examines Eliot's theories of tradition, impersonality, and the objective correlative. It analyzes how Eliot defended the Metaphysical poets and influenced the development of literary criticism.
Percy Bysshe Shelley received a classical education at home before attending University College in Oxford in 1810. While at Oxford, he published an atheist pamphlet that led to his expulsion. In 1811, he eloped with Harriet Westbrook and had two children, though their marriage collapsed when he eloped with Mary Godwin in 1814. Shelley wrote several poems early in his career and continued writing up until his death by drowning in 1822 at age 30, when his schooner sank during a sudden storm in the Gulf of Spezia in Italy.
Anton Chekhov was born in 1860 in Taganrog, Russia to a family that had previously been serfs. As a young man, he moved to Moscow and began writing comic stories to pay for his medical school tuition. He was later diagnosed with tuberculosis and died of the disease in 1904. The provided document also includes a character list for Chekhov's play The Cherry Orchard.
Aristotle's Poetics discusses the principles of tragedy and epic poetry. It defines tragedy as the imitation of an action that is serious, complete, and of a certain magnitude, which through pity and fear brings about the catharsis or purification of such emotions. Aristotle analyzes the key elements of tragedy including plot, character, thought, diction, song and spectacle. He describes the ideal tragic hero and provides guidance on plot construction and the proper use of dramatic techniques like peripety and anagnorisis in tragedy.
The document provides an analysis of T.S. Eliot's modernist poem "The Waste Land" in 3 parts:
1. It summarizes the poem's structure consisting of 5 sections that use collages of images and allusions to myths.
2. It analyzes major themes of spiritual/cultural malaise in the modern world and the universality of the themes of life/death.
3. It discusses how characters like Tiresias and the use of mythical techniques give unity and provide cultural context for the poem's fragmented images.
Matthew Arnold was a 19th century British poet and cultural critic. He worked as a school inspector after marrying in 1851. Arnold published several volumes of poetry and was appointed Professor of Poetry at Oxford University in 1857. He is considered one of the major Victorian poets along with Tennyson and Browning. Arnold used his poetry to philosophize about finding meaning and happiness in life. He also wrote extensively about education and culture.
John Dryden (1631-1700) was an influential English poet, literary critic, translator and playwright. He established the heroic couplet as the dominant poetic form of the 18th century. As a poet, he published works celebrating historical events that established him as the preeminent poet of his generation. As a playwright, he wrote successful plays after Shakespeare, including heroic plays, tragicomedies and tragedies. He also translated major classical works into English. Dryden made massive contributions to English literature as one of the most important figures of the Restoration period.
This document provides information about Victorian literature and the poet Robert Browning. It summarizes Browning's life, influences, styles of poetry including dramatic monologues, and analyzes some of his most famous poems like "My Last Duchess" and "Porpheyria's Lover." The document also discusses key characteristics of Victorian literature such as its emphasis on order, morality, and influence of science.
This document provides an overview of T.S. Eliot's important literary works and critical writings. It discusses his poems such as The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock and The Wasteland. Eliot's critical essays examined the nature of criticism and analyzed authors like the Metaphysical poets. The document also examines Eliot's theories of tradition, impersonality, and the objective correlative. It analyzes how Eliot defended the Metaphysical poets and influenced the development of literary criticism.
Percy Bysshe Shelley received a classical education at home before attending University College in Oxford in 1810. While at Oxford, he published an atheist pamphlet that led to his expulsion. In 1811, he eloped with Harriet Westbrook and had two children, though their marriage collapsed when he eloped with Mary Godwin in 1814. Shelley wrote several poems early in his career and continued writing up until his death by drowning in 1822 at age 30, when his schooner sank during a sudden storm in the Gulf of Spezia in Italy.
The Sun Rising by Jhon Donne Critical AnalysisMurk Razzaque
Jhon Donne's life greatly impacted his poetry. After marrying his beloved Anna More, the main subject of his poetry became love, exploring both the physical and spiritual aspects. Donne drew from his own experiences of love - at times writing about the company of his beloved, other times describing love as the most precious thing, and at other times discussing the unfaithful nature of women. His poetry reflected the experiences and events occurring in his own life.
David Herbert Lawrence was a British writer born in 1885 in Eastwood, England. Some of his notable works include the novels Sons and Lovers and Lady Chatterley's Lover. Sons and Lovers, published in 1913, is semi-autobiographical and focuses on the protagonist Paul Morel and his complex relationship with his mother. It explores themes of social class differences and Freudian psychoanalysis. The story follows Paul's love interests in Miriam and Clara and how he struggles with his mother's suffocating control over him. Lawrence drew from his own upbringing and relationships in the former mining community of Eastwood as inspiration for the novel.
The document summarizes Alexander Pope's poem "The Rape of the Lock" in 3 sentences:
The poem satirizes a real incident where a Lord cuts a lock of hair from a woman named Belinda's head without her permission. It is written as a mock epic in five cantos using rhymed iambic pentameter and deals with the vanities of humankind in a trivial situation. The summary outlines the plot, which involves Belinda getting ready for a card game, a fight over the stolen lock breaking out, and the lock ultimately becoming a star or constellation.
Ezra Pound was an American poet and writer born in Idaho in 1885 who had a significant influence on modernist poetry in the early 20th century. He helped promote the works of T.S. Eliot, James Joyce, and Ernest Hemingway. Pound spent time in London and Paris where he further developed his poetry and worked on his masterwork The Cantos, a long complex poem spanning his life. In the 1940s, Pound made anti-Semitic radio broadcasts for Mussolini and was arrested for treason after World War 2, spending over a decade in St. Elizabeths Hospital. He continued writing and revising The Cantos until his death in 1972 in Venice, Italy.
Wordsworth outlines three principles in the preface to the Lyrical Ballads: 1) the poetry concerns nature and country life, 2) it emphasizes poetry as an art form to enlighten readers on human emotion, and 3) clean, simple lines best capture the imagination rather than overly complicated styles. He chose rustic subjects and language to find a "plainer and more emphatic" way to communicate passions. Poetry combines feeling and thought as a spontaneous overflow of powerful emotions and ideas. The poet's duty is to produce pleasure and enlarge human capability. Wordsworth defends his choice of common subjects and language to better understand essential human passions.
A Study of Poetry | Critical Essay by Matthew ArnoldMansur Saleem
Matthew Arnold's essay criticizes poetry and criticism. He argues that poetry will provide enduring comfort through its ideas. Arnold proposes evaluating poetry through "real," "historic," and "personal" estimates. The "real estimate" judges poetry objectively based on creative merit, while the "historic estimate" prioritizes historical context over artistic value. The "personal estimate" relies on subjective tastes. Arnold advocates the "touchstone method" of comparing works to classics like Homer, Dante and Shakespeare to assess poetic quality. He analyses various poets like Chaucer, Dryden and Pope through this framework.
Wordsworth's poem "Tintern Abbey" refers to a place he visited five years prior in Wales. In the poem, he compares his mature present state of mind to his pure childhood state, finding solace in nature and in reconnecting with memories of the past. Wordsworth sees memory as something that shapes the mind and provides comfort, as he tries to reconnect past experiences to his present through remembering his prior visit to Tintern Abbey.
This document provides an overview of the Victorian poet Alfred Tennyson and his long poem In Memoriam A.H.H., which was written over 17 years in memory of his friend Arthur Hallam. It discusses how the poem grappled with new scientific ideas emerging in the Victorian era like the origins of the earth and humanity. While some critics saw the poem as finding satisfaction over time, others felt Tennyson's language evaded expectations and the possibility of resolution.
1. The document provides context and summaries for William Wordsworth's poem "Tintern Abbey". It was written after the poet revisited the scenic area near Tintern Abbey on the River Wye in Wales.
2. The poem expresses how memories of communing with nature as a child still provide comfort to the poet, even though he has lost the ability to have pure communion with nature. These childhood memories provide sensations and tranquility.
3. In the present, though different than his youth, the poet finds he can now appreciate nature in a more mature way by considering its relationship to humanity. He believes nature still anchors his purest thoughts.
This document provides background information on the English poet John Keats and analyzes his famous ode "Ode to a Nightingale". It outlines details of Keats' life and career, defines what an ode is, summarizes the themes of the poem like mortality and man's relationship with nature, and asserts that the nightingale symbolizes joy, nature, or Keats himself. It concludes that the moral of the poem is the acceptance of human mortality despite finding temporary escape through appreciating beauty.
Poetry, he wrote in the Preface, originates from ‘the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings’ which is filtered through ‘emotion recollected in tranquillity’.
The document provides background information on John Keats and analyzes his poem "Ode on a Grecian Urn". It discusses Keats' concept of "negative capability" and how the urn symbolizes eternal beauty and truth. The document then analyzes each stanza of the poem, describing the scenes depicted on the urn and how they represent immortalized art over mortal human experiences. It concludes that the urn's enduring message to mankind is Keats' famous line "Beauty is truth, truth beauty".
Sidney's "Apology for Poetry" argues that poetry is a divine and socially useful art form. It summarizes Sidney's main points that poetry: (1) is the first form of education and instruction for humanity; (2) acts as a channel for divine inspiration; and (3) can teach virtue while delighting readers more effectively than history or philosophy. The work refutes claims that poetry is a lie, unprofitable, or leads to sin by asserting poetry's noble aim to inspire readers rather than corrupt them.
Yeats explores his thoughts and musings on how immortality, art, and the human spirit may converge. Through the use of various poetic techniques, Yeats's Sailing to Byzantium describes the metaphorical journey of a man pursuing his own vision of eternal life as well as his conception of paradise.
Dr. Johnson praised Shakespeare in his "Preface to Shakespeare" for his fidelity to human nature and realistic portrayal of characters. Though he found faults in some of Shakespeare's plots and comic scenes, Johnson believed Shakespeare excelled at depicting the truths of human psychology and capturing the diversity of human passions and motives. While Shakespeare violated the classical unities of time and place, Johnson argued this was not really a fault, and that the unities were not essential to a good play. Overall, Johnson provided a largely balanced critique and is credited with recognizing Shakespeare's profound understanding of human nature.
The Preface to the Lyrical Ballads is an essay, composed by William Wordsworth, for the second edition of the poetry collection Lyrical Ballads, and then greatly expanded in the third edition of 1802. It has come to be seen as a de facto manifesto of the Romantic movement.
The characters and themes of a passage to indianoraahmed141419
This document provides an introduction and summary of the novel "A Passage to India" by E.M. Forster. It discusses the plot, which centers around Dr. Aziz, a young Indian physician who is falsely accused of assaulting a British woman. The introduction notes that the novel examines the difficulty of establishing friendship across cultural boundaries in colonial India. It then summarizes the main characters and themes of the novel, including the central theme of the clash between British and Indian cultures in colonial India and the difficulties of forming friendships across these divides.
This document provides biographical information about the Victorian poet Alfred Lord Tennyson. It discusses his early life, family history including mental illness that ran in the family, his friendship and mourning of Arthur Hallam, his achievements as Poet Laureate, and summaries and analyses of some of his most famous poems including "The Eagle," "Crossing the Bar," and selections from "In Memoriam."
Every year the James Randi Educational Foundation (JREF) presents The Amaz!ng Meeting (TAM) in Las Vegas, about science, skepticism and critical thinking. This In Memoriam reel ran July 13 and July 14 at TAM2012 to take note of people relating to skepticism who have died in the past 12 months. http://randi.org
The Sun Rising by Jhon Donne Critical AnalysisMurk Razzaque
Jhon Donne's life greatly impacted his poetry. After marrying his beloved Anna More, the main subject of his poetry became love, exploring both the physical and spiritual aspects. Donne drew from his own experiences of love - at times writing about the company of his beloved, other times describing love as the most precious thing, and at other times discussing the unfaithful nature of women. His poetry reflected the experiences and events occurring in his own life.
David Herbert Lawrence was a British writer born in 1885 in Eastwood, England. Some of his notable works include the novels Sons and Lovers and Lady Chatterley's Lover. Sons and Lovers, published in 1913, is semi-autobiographical and focuses on the protagonist Paul Morel and his complex relationship with his mother. It explores themes of social class differences and Freudian psychoanalysis. The story follows Paul's love interests in Miriam and Clara and how he struggles with his mother's suffocating control over him. Lawrence drew from his own upbringing and relationships in the former mining community of Eastwood as inspiration for the novel.
The document summarizes Alexander Pope's poem "The Rape of the Lock" in 3 sentences:
The poem satirizes a real incident where a Lord cuts a lock of hair from a woman named Belinda's head without her permission. It is written as a mock epic in five cantos using rhymed iambic pentameter and deals with the vanities of humankind in a trivial situation. The summary outlines the plot, which involves Belinda getting ready for a card game, a fight over the stolen lock breaking out, and the lock ultimately becoming a star or constellation.
Ezra Pound was an American poet and writer born in Idaho in 1885 who had a significant influence on modernist poetry in the early 20th century. He helped promote the works of T.S. Eliot, James Joyce, and Ernest Hemingway. Pound spent time in London and Paris where he further developed his poetry and worked on his masterwork The Cantos, a long complex poem spanning his life. In the 1940s, Pound made anti-Semitic radio broadcasts for Mussolini and was arrested for treason after World War 2, spending over a decade in St. Elizabeths Hospital. He continued writing and revising The Cantos until his death in 1972 in Venice, Italy.
Wordsworth outlines three principles in the preface to the Lyrical Ballads: 1) the poetry concerns nature and country life, 2) it emphasizes poetry as an art form to enlighten readers on human emotion, and 3) clean, simple lines best capture the imagination rather than overly complicated styles. He chose rustic subjects and language to find a "plainer and more emphatic" way to communicate passions. Poetry combines feeling and thought as a spontaneous overflow of powerful emotions and ideas. The poet's duty is to produce pleasure and enlarge human capability. Wordsworth defends his choice of common subjects and language to better understand essential human passions.
A Study of Poetry | Critical Essay by Matthew ArnoldMansur Saleem
Matthew Arnold's essay criticizes poetry and criticism. He argues that poetry will provide enduring comfort through its ideas. Arnold proposes evaluating poetry through "real," "historic," and "personal" estimates. The "real estimate" judges poetry objectively based on creative merit, while the "historic estimate" prioritizes historical context over artistic value. The "personal estimate" relies on subjective tastes. Arnold advocates the "touchstone method" of comparing works to classics like Homer, Dante and Shakespeare to assess poetic quality. He analyses various poets like Chaucer, Dryden and Pope through this framework.
Wordsworth's poem "Tintern Abbey" refers to a place he visited five years prior in Wales. In the poem, he compares his mature present state of mind to his pure childhood state, finding solace in nature and in reconnecting with memories of the past. Wordsworth sees memory as something that shapes the mind and provides comfort, as he tries to reconnect past experiences to his present through remembering his prior visit to Tintern Abbey.
This document provides an overview of the Victorian poet Alfred Tennyson and his long poem In Memoriam A.H.H., which was written over 17 years in memory of his friend Arthur Hallam. It discusses how the poem grappled with new scientific ideas emerging in the Victorian era like the origins of the earth and humanity. While some critics saw the poem as finding satisfaction over time, others felt Tennyson's language evaded expectations and the possibility of resolution.
1. The document provides context and summaries for William Wordsworth's poem "Tintern Abbey". It was written after the poet revisited the scenic area near Tintern Abbey on the River Wye in Wales.
2. The poem expresses how memories of communing with nature as a child still provide comfort to the poet, even though he has lost the ability to have pure communion with nature. These childhood memories provide sensations and tranquility.
3. In the present, though different than his youth, the poet finds he can now appreciate nature in a more mature way by considering its relationship to humanity. He believes nature still anchors his purest thoughts.
This document provides background information on the English poet John Keats and analyzes his famous ode "Ode to a Nightingale". It outlines details of Keats' life and career, defines what an ode is, summarizes the themes of the poem like mortality and man's relationship with nature, and asserts that the nightingale symbolizes joy, nature, or Keats himself. It concludes that the moral of the poem is the acceptance of human mortality despite finding temporary escape through appreciating beauty.
Poetry, he wrote in the Preface, originates from ‘the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings’ which is filtered through ‘emotion recollected in tranquillity’.
The document provides background information on John Keats and analyzes his poem "Ode on a Grecian Urn". It discusses Keats' concept of "negative capability" and how the urn symbolizes eternal beauty and truth. The document then analyzes each stanza of the poem, describing the scenes depicted on the urn and how they represent immortalized art over mortal human experiences. It concludes that the urn's enduring message to mankind is Keats' famous line "Beauty is truth, truth beauty".
Sidney's "Apology for Poetry" argues that poetry is a divine and socially useful art form. It summarizes Sidney's main points that poetry: (1) is the first form of education and instruction for humanity; (2) acts as a channel for divine inspiration; and (3) can teach virtue while delighting readers more effectively than history or philosophy. The work refutes claims that poetry is a lie, unprofitable, or leads to sin by asserting poetry's noble aim to inspire readers rather than corrupt them.
Yeats explores his thoughts and musings on how immortality, art, and the human spirit may converge. Through the use of various poetic techniques, Yeats's Sailing to Byzantium describes the metaphorical journey of a man pursuing his own vision of eternal life as well as his conception of paradise.
Dr. Johnson praised Shakespeare in his "Preface to Shakespeare" for his fidelity to human nature and realistic portrayal of characters. Though he found faults in some of Shakespeare's plots and comic scenes, Johnson believed Shakespeare excelled at depicting the truths of human psychology and capturing the diversity of human passions and motives. While Shakespeare violated the classical unities of time and place, Johnson argued this was not really a fault, and that the unities were not essential to a good play. Overall, Johnson provided a largely balanced critique and is credited with recognizing Shakespeare's profound understanding of human nature.
The Preface to the Lyrical Ballads is an essay, composed by William Wordsworth, for the second edition of the poetry collection Lyrical Ballads, and then greatly expanded in the third edition of 1802. It has come to be seen as a de facto manifesto of the Romantic movement.
The characters and themes of a passage to indianoraahmed141419
This document provides an introduction and summary of the novel "A Passage to India" by E.M. Forster. It discusses the plot, which centers around Dr. Aziz, a young Indian physician who is falsely accused of assaulting a British woman. The introduction notes that the novel examines the difficulty of establishing friendship across cultural boundaries in colonial India. It then summarizes the main characters and themes of the novel, including the central theme of the clash between British and Indian cultures in colonial India and the difficulties of forming friendships across these divides.
This document provides biographical information about the Victorian poet Alfred Lord Tennyson. It discusses his early life, family history including mental illness that ran in the family, his friendship and mourning of Arthur Hallam, his achievements as Poet Laureate, and summaries and analyses of some of his most famous poems including "The Eagle," "Crossing the Bar," and selections from "In Memoriam."
Every year the James Randi Educational Foundation (JREF) presents The Amaz!ng Meeting (TAM) in Las Vegas, about science, skepticism and critical thinking. This In Memoriam reel ran July 13 and July 14 at TAM2012 to take note of people relating to skepticism who have died in the past 12 months. http://randi.org
I, too, sing America. I am the darker brother. They send me to eat in the kitchen when company comes, but I laugh, and eat well, and grow strong. Tomorrow, I'll be at the table when company comes. Nobody'll dare say to me, "Eat in the kitchen," then.
George Orwell explains the four main motives that drive writers: (1) egoism and desire for fame, (2) aesthetic enthusiasm for language and storytelling, (3) the historical impulse to uncover facts, and (4) political purpose to change society. As a child, Orwell engaged in extensive imaginary storytelling and worked on various unsuccessful poems and stories. He was drawn to descriptive writing styles and wanted to write large naturalistic novels. His experiences in Burma and later poverty influenced his political views and pushed him towards writing pamphlets.
- The poem uses extended metaphors of sailing and crossing a bar to represent facing death.
- The speaker hopes to pass peacefully into death without distressing others, crossing the boundary between life and the afterlife as the tide is highest.
- While death may take him beyond normal conceptions of time and place, the speaker finds comfort in believing he will meet his "Pilot," God, after crossing over.
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The shepherd invites his love to come live with him, promising pleasures like walking in hills and valleys, sitting by rivers and listening to birds sing, and making beds of roses and fragrant flowers. He offers her fine wool gowns, slippers, and belts decorated with straw, ivy, coral and amber. The nymph replies that if the world was always young and truth existed, she might be moved to love the shepherd. However, winter is coming, flowers fade, and fine things are fleeting. While youth and love may breed delight, they do not last, so his offers cannot move her to love him.
George Orwell was an assistant superintendent of police in Burma in the 1920s under British rule. When he is called to kill an elephant that has run amok, he finds the animal is calm but shoots it anyway to avoid looking weak in front of the large crowd that has gathered. The essay is a critique of imperialism, showing how it corrupts both the colonizers and colonized and relies on violence. Orwell kills the elephant not because it is dangerous but because he feels he has to maintain his image as a powerful sahib to the Burmese people who hate him as a symbol of British oppression.
The document provides a summary of D.H. Lawrence's novel "The Rainbow" in 3 sentences or less:
The Rainbow chronicles three generations of the Brangwen family living in Nottinghamshire, England and explores themes of passion, tradition, children, and the struggles within marriages and family relationships over time. Main characters like Tom Brangwen, Lydia Lensky, Anna and Will Brangwen, and their granddaughter Ursula experience stormy relationships marked by sexual desires, distance, and the changing social roles of women. The book traces the family's history and connection to the land across generations living in rural England that become more urbanized over time.
Detailed lesson plan - Crossing the Bar - giocosovivaceJivanee Abril
This document outlines a lesson plan for teaching about allegory using the poem "Crossing the Bar" by Alfred Lord Tennyson. The plan includes objectives to define allegory, create an original allegory, and develop social skills. It provides context on the poem and outlines teacher and student activities such as reading the poem aloud, analyzing its literal and symbolic meanings line by line, creating allegories in groups, and answering review questions. The lesson aims to teach students to distinguish literal from symbolic interpretations in allegorical works.
George Bernard Shaw was an Irish playwright born in 1856 in Dublin. He moved to London at age 20 where he began his career in dramatic criticism. He was an admirer of Henrik Ibsen's works and wrote extensively about him. Shaw joined the Fabian Society in 1884 and used his plays to promote socialism and women's rights. His most famous plays include Man and Superman, Pygmalion, and Back to Methuselah. Pygmalion tells the story of professor Henry Higgins who makes a bet that he can pass off a Cockney flower girl as a duchess. Higgins transforms Eliza Doolittle through speech lessons but struggles to understand her feelings. Shaw won the Nobel
George Bernard Shaw was an Irish playwright born in 1856 who became a prominent socialist figure. After being exposed to irregular schooling and poverty in his youth, he moved to London in 1876 and joined the Fabian Society, a socialist organization. He wrote over 60 plays that addressed political and social issues through witty dialogue. His most famous play, Pygmalion (1912), tells the story of Eliza Doolittle, a Cockney flower girl who is taught to speak like an upper-class woman in a bet between Professor Henry Higgins and Colonel Pickering. The play examines the rigid class divisions in Victorian society and whether a person's identity can truly be changed by their speech and manners.
The play "Look Back in Anger" follows Jimmy Porter, an angry young man living in England with his wife Alison. Jimmy constantly insults and provokes both Alison and their friend Cliff through his rants. Alison reveals to Cliff that she is pregnant, though hasn't told Jimmy. Over time, Jimmy's outbursts escalate and Alison decides to leave with her friend Helena, though has second thoughts. In the final act, Alison returns after losing the baby, and finds that her suffering has allowed her and Jimmy to reconnect.
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John Osborne's 1956 play Look Back in Anger transformed English theatre. It depicted the post-World War 2 climate in Britain through the tumultuous relationship between Jimmy and his wife Alison. Jimmy, part of the new working class, rails against the British establishment through his passionate monologues. The play innovated by taking place entirely in a run-down attic flat and focusing on the domestic lives of ordinary Britons. It explored themes like the decline of patriarchal families, class conflict, and Britain adjusting to its diminished global status following the end of its empire.
The Importance of Being Earnest is a comic play by Oscar Wilde set in late Victorian England that satirizes the hypocrisy of society. It follows Jack Worthing and Algernon Moncrieff who both pretend to have wicked brothers named Ernest to escape social obligations. Their deceptions are exposed when the women they are engaged to, Gwendolen and Cecily, meet and each insists she is engaged to "Ernest." It is revealed that Jack is actually Lady Bracknell's long lost nephew, and his real name was Ernest all along, allowing the engagements to proceed.
Here is a limerick I wrote following the form:
There once was a poet named Claire
Who loved writing poems with flair
But one day she found
Her rhymes weren't so sound
So back to the form books she'd fare
Structure and Form
The Shakespearean Sonnet
The Shakespearean, or English, sonnet has 14 lines with a rhyme scheme of:
ABAB CDCD EFEF GG
It is divided into 3 quatrains (groups of 4 lines) and a rhyming couplet at the end.
Let's look at an example sonnet by William Shakespeare to see how this form works:
Shall I compare thee to a
John Osborne wrote Look Back in Anger in 1956, drawing on his own experiences. It follows Jimmy Porter, a working class man married to Alison from an upper middle class family. Jimmy vents his anger at society through bitter tirades against Alison and her friend Helena. The play was considered revolutionary for using informal language and portraying disaffected youth. It helped launch the "Angry Young Men" movement in British theater.
- The document discusses and compares two poems by William Wordsworth: "Tintern Abbey" and "Ode: Intimations of Immortality".
- Both poems explore Wordsworth's relationship with nature over time, addressing his experience of it in youth versus maturity. As a youth, he had a "visionary power" working through nature, while as an adult he found nature provided "soothing thoughts" and inspiration.
- The poems mark Wordsworth's shift from seeing nature through a "painter's eye" to understanding its "hidden meaning" and using it to contemplate the human condition and eternity. Though he lost his youthful connection, nature continued to nourish and teach him.
The document discusses Shelley's importance as a Romantic poet. Some key points made are:
- Shelley's poems focus on extreme human emotion and the wonders of nature, both hallmarks of Romanticism.
- Romantics valued emotion over reason and a return to nature. Shelley's "Ode to a Skylark" praises the bird's "unpremeditated art" and asks readers to listen, not analyze.
- Compared to earlier Romantics, Shelley portrayed nature as indifferent to human suffering and a backdrop for themes of man's insignificance.
Salient features of Romantic Poetry and Wordsworth as a poet of Nature.AleeenaFarooq
Wordsworth was a poet of nature who believed nature had a profound spiritual and moral influence. He saw nature as a living personality from which humans could learn. As a child, nature nurtured him through beauty and fear, shaping his mind. As an adult, nature took on a spiritual meaning, with natural objects representing nature's message. Wordsworth sensitively described nature with subtle expressions of joy, energy, and movement beyond surface appearances, seeing nature's "ideal truth." He emphasized nature's role in educating humans and fostering spiritual communion between humanity and nature.
Based on Edgar Allen Poe's "Philosophy of Composition" where he describes the process by which he composed "The Raven." There is also an overview of poetic devices.
1) The document discusses William Wordsworth's vision and treatment of nature in his poetry.
2) It examines how nature played an important role in different periods of literature and was a main theme in most of Wordsworth's poems.
3) The document analyzes Wordsworth's poem "Lines Written in Early Spring" as a prime example of how he portrayed nature in a very positive light, recreating the calm atmosphere of spring through descriptive language.
Chapter wise All Notes of First year Basic Civil Engineering.pptxDenish Jangid
Chapter wise All Notes of First year Basic Civil Engineering
Syllabus
Chapter-1
Introduction to objective, scope and outcome the subject
Chapter 2
Introduction: Scope and Specialization of Civil Engineering, Role of civil Engineer in Society, Impact of infrastructural development on economy of country.
Chapter 3
Surveying: Object Principles & Types of Surveying; Site Plans, Plans & Maps; Scales & Unit of different Measurements.
Linear Measurements: Instruments used. Linear Measurement by Tape, Ranging out Survey Lines and overcoming Obstructions; Measurements on sloping ground; Tape corrections, conventional symbols. Angular Measurements: Instruments used; Introduction to Compass Surveying, Bearings and Longitude & Latitude of a Line, Introduction to total station.
Levelling: Instrument used Object of levelling, Methods of levelling in brief, and Contour maps.
Chapter 4
Buildings: Selection of site for Buildings, Layout of Building Plan, Types of buildings, Plinth area, carpet area, floor space index, Introduction to building byelaws, concept of sun light & ventilation. Components of Buildings & their functions, Basic concept of R.C.C., Introduction to types of foundation
Chapter 5
Transportation: Introduction to Transportation Engineering; Traffic and Road Safety: Types and Characteristics of Various Modes of Transportation; Various Road Traffic Signs, Causes of Accidents and Road Safety Measures.
Chapter 6
Environmental Engineering: Environmental Pollution, Environmental Acts and Regulations, Functional Concepts of Ecology, Basics of Species, Biodiversity, Ecosystem, Hydrological Cycle; Chemical Cycles: Carbon, Nitrogen & Phosphorus; Energy Flow in Ecosystems.
Water Pollution: Water Quality standards, Introduction to Treatment & Disposal of Waste Water. Reuse and Saving of Water, Rain Water Harvesting. Solid Waste Management: Classification of Solid Waste, Collection, Transportation and Disposal of Solid. Recycling of Solid Waste: Energy Recovery, Sanitary Landfill, On-Site Sanitation. Air & Noise Pollution: Primary and Secondary air pollutants, Harmful effects of Air Pollution, Control of Air Pollution. . Noise Pollution Harmful Effects of noise pollution, control of noise pollution, Global warming & Climate Change, Ozone depletion, Greenhouse effect
Text Books:
1. Palancharmy, Basic Civil Engineering, McGraw Hill publishers.
2. Satheesh Gopi, Basic Civil Engineering, Pearson Publishers.
3. Ketki Rangwala Dalal, Essentials of Civil Engineering, Charotar Publishing House.
4. BCP, Surveying volume 1
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This document provides an overview of wound healing, its functions, stages, mechanisms, factors affecting it, and complications.
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This Dissertation explores the particular circumstances of Mirzapur, a region located in the
core of India. Mirzapur, with its varied terrains and abundant biodiversity, offers an optimal
environment for investigating the changes in vegetation cover dynamics. Our study utilizes
advanced technologies such as GIS (Geographic Information Systems) and Remote sensing to
analyze the transformations that have taken place over the course of a decade.
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of extensive research and worry. As the global community grapples with swift urbanization,
population expansion, and economic progress, the effects on natural ecosystems are becoming
more evident. A crucial element of this impact is the alteration of vegetation cover, which plays a
significant role in maintaining the ecological equilibrium of our planet.Land serves as the foundation for all human activities and provides the necessary materials for
these activities. As the most crucial natural resource, its utilization by humans results in different
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land.
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like India, rapid population growth and the emphasis on extensive resource exploitation can lead
to significant land degradation, adversely affecting the region's land cover.
Therefore, human intervention has significantly influenced land use patterns over many
centuries, evolving its structure over time and space. In the present era, these changes have
accelerated due to factors such as agriculture and urbanization. Information regarding land use and
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providing crucial environmental data for scientific, resource management, policy purposes, and
diverse human activities.
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changes, conversion trends, and other related patterns. The spatial dimensions of land use and
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help of Advanced technologies like Remote Sensing and Geographic Information Systems is
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1. Nature in
In memoriam by Alfred, Lord
Tennyson
Majd Alshahwan –
Noura AlnujaidiMalak AldarweeshNoura Alhabdan –
Nada Alhabardi
2. In Memoriam is a long poem written by the English poet Alfred, Lord
Tennyson, and completed in 1849. It was composed as an elegy to his
friend, Hallam, who died at the age of 22 from a fever. The poem
consists of many smaller poems, written in iambic tetrameter with an
ABBA rhyme scheme. Besides it is divided into 133 cantos (including the
prologue and epilogue), and in contrast to its constant and regulated
metrical form, it deals with different subjects such as: profound spiritual
experiences, nostalgic reminscence, philosophical speculation, Romantic
fantasizing and even occasional verse. At the death of his best friend,
Tennyson seeks to understand his senseless death with an exploration of
life's meaning. This one man's death spurs this epic elegy to theological
and scientific discussions of the purpose of pain in life. In In Memoriam
doubt and faith become the key elements in the pursuit of a clear
answer from God. The man who inspired this pivotal poem was Hallam.
3. In Tennyson's In Memoriam, he utilizes many different aspects
of nature as metaphors to describe his emotions after the death of
a close friend. In writing the poem, Tennyson was influenced by
the ideas of evolution presented in Vestiges of the Natural History
of Creation which had been published in 1844, and had caused a
storm of controversy about the theological implications of
impersonal nature functioning without direct divine intervention.
Throughout the poem, the poet refers to many aspects of nature
such as trees, water, and wind and so on and so forth. He projects
his emotions, whether sad or happy, on those natural elements.
4. In the beginning of Tennyson's poem, he describes an old yew
tree. The tree, to him, is dead and at this early point of his grief he
cannot find any life in the nature surrounding him. The old yew
"which grapsest at the stones/ That name the underlying dead,/
Thy fibers net the dreamless head,/ Thy roots are wrapped about
the bones" (2.1-4). Therefore he sees the tree as an extension of
the graves it grew on. The roots are entangled around the dead
bones and are as dead as the skull of the person, unable to dream
ever again. The world around the tree and grave will begin again
to bloom, but Tennyson feels the tree will not change and keep its
gloomy appearance throughout the year. He is "sick for thy
stubborn hardihood" (2.14) and seems to wish to be like the tree.
For if he were also dead, he would not have to feel the pain he is
experiencing.
5. His natural surroundings are quiet, which he feels are suited to this
stage in his grief. It is fall and the leaves are falling off the tree along with
the chestnuts. Still there is imagery of death and dying. It is quiet but the
world to him is dying. A particular moving part of the poem is when he
describes a dam. The dam slows down and "hushes half the babbling
Wye" (19.6) and he feels his grief is stopped up also. He still feels deep
grief, but he controls himself at most times. The tide makes the water
flow again and floods the surrounding area with noise. Like the flood of
water is the flood of his tears where his deepest anguish bursts out of
control and he cannot contain his feelings. In contrast to his earlier feeling
of wanting to be like the inanimate and unfeeling as the old yew tree,
Tennyson pities animals that cannot feel. "I envy not the beast that
takes...To whom a conscience never wakes" (27.5-9).
He makes remarkable progress in his healing. It is as if he is coming to terms with what
happened. "'Tis better to have loved and lost/ Than never to have loved at all" (14-15). In
the mists of heavy grief this is certainly a difficult thing to say. Some time has gone by
and Tennyson reconsiders the yew tree. He finds when he taps at it, pollen spurts out.
"these buried bones...With fruitful cloud and living smoke..." (39.1-3). So he discovers the
life within the tree that he did not believe existed back in the fall at the beginning of his
bereavement. Throughout his exploration of his friends death, Tennyson questions the
existence of God. "What then were God to such as I" (34.9)? Through his observation of
nature he seems to accept the existence of God. "That nothing walks with aimless feet;/
That not one life shall be destroyed...That not a worm is cloven in vain;/ That not a moth
with vain desire..." (54.5-10).
6. He views even the smallest creatures with having a purpose. Therefore
his friends life held purpose and his death was not in vain. He still
struggles with God and nature though. He wonders "Are God and Nature
then at strife..." (55.5). He sees nature as destructive, bringing to fruit just
one seed out of fifty. He wonders how God and nature co-exist. Nature
does not care specifically for life. She brings life and death, as for the
spirit--that is for God. So he gropes "To what I feel is Lord of all,/ and
faintly trust the larger hope" (55.18-19). At this point he has mixed
emotions. He sees the re-birth and hope for life in nature but he also sees
the destructiveness of nature. After the one year anniversary of Hallam's
death, Tennyson looks forward to spring. "O sweet new-year delaying
long;/ Thou doest expectant nature wrong...Can troubles live with April
days,/ Or sadness in the summer moons" (83.2-8)? So he is looking
forward to having the earth re-awaken and come alive. He feels the energy
and life of spring will help him with his sadness. Being surrounded by such
activity makes it hard for one to be depressed. Not only is the earth being
reborn but his spirit is also.
He sees his grief as causing him to doubt God, but all along he knew
that God was there. Tennyson realizes that God cannot be completely
understandable to man. He also sees nature as a force of God, something
that God uses to make men. God through nature helps men understand
themselves, their life and death.
7. There is throughout the poem a nonlinear narration, due to the cycle
technique used by Tennyson in order to illustrate certain fundamental laws
behind human time and natural time, Tennyson’s notions of time are initially
dependent upon the strict division between human time and time existing in
nature, the first is linear, the second one is cyclical. This concept is exposed in
Section 22. In section 22 it is described a sort of experience of the author and
Hallam that consists in a fall out of natural or seasonal time, they coexist with the
natural passing of the seasons and at the end this cyclical time changes into a
more linear time endowed by the immanence of death, represented by "the
Shadow"; it is more explicit in another verse this concept of seasonal time "And
every winter change to spring" in section 54 line 16. In my opinion winter
represents the death of nature, but the difference is that nature regenerates,
whereas human being only dies. I agree with the opinion that Tennyson,
throughout the poem, tries to reconcile the natural time with the human time,
but I think that he cannot.
‘And we with singing cheer'd the way,
And, crown'd with all the season lent,
From April on to April went,
And glad at heart from May to May:’
8. Tennyson crafts a woman to represent nature, but "she cries from cliff-top", she is not
a nurturer who will not betray but one who cares for nothing, Tennyson’s woman does
not feed human mind, that is to say nature does not teach anything to the poet, it is not
the source for the poet’s imagination.
‘That Nature lends such evil dreams?
So careful of the type she seems,
So careless of the single life;’
He says that Nature does not care about the human subject, as a lot of subjects have
passed by and have gone after his existence. The verses of this stanza are written as if
those were Nature's words on the issue. As if it was Nature herself who was talking to us
And Tennyson's ideas on Nature as an evil being, as a destructive force, ideas explained
in the next section of this research, are well reflected in this stanza.
In the second stanza Nature continues speaking and expresses
her power to give and take away life at her will, an action that has
to be done without having on account anything else but her
desire and no reason at all. The final verse of this second stanza
links with the beginning of the third one where the idea of man
as Nature's last work, is expressed. This idea of man as the last
work of creation brings to my memory the Christian theory of the
creation of the world, in which God created the man after having
created the world, the scenery where man was to be set. But in
this case the creator is Nature instead of God.
9. Water is a dominant image throughout the text of In Memoriam that is
employed by Tennyson to relate his emotional and intellectual state to the
reader as he struggles to come to grips with the loss of his friend, Arthur
Henry Hallam. His use of water imagery is not strictly limited to the body of In
Memoriam however, and, examining all of his works, we see that it has been a
constant yet dynamic image throughout his entire career, and that it is
repetitively employed with various intended meanings. In Memoriam ,
besides being his greatest work, also has the distinction of being the work in
which the intentions behind Tennyson's water imagery undergo a dramatic
shift from carrying an overall negative connotation to a much more positive
one - a shift that is made entirely possible through the language that he
employs in their depiction. In Memoriam highlights Tennyson's use of water
imagery and shows how, through the use of simple yet multi-layered
language, he shapes this constant, familiar image over and over again.
Tennyson seems exceptionally strong in his ability to use a variety of forms
of nature to achieve his point. He demonstrates that man and nature are
bound together on earth. Tennyson seems to be the poet who has achieved
the most reconciliation with nature imagery and his poetry.