Sunday, November 11, 2012
A novel analyzing why Idealism and Dreams fail in Reality
Fitzgerald’s novel The Great Gatsby (1925),today reagared as a "Great Amarican Novel" and a literary classic, may be viewed as a piece of social satire. On one level it comments on the ceaseless gaiety and moral decadence of the period. The wild extravagance of Gatsby’s parties, the shallowness and...
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Thursday, November 8, 2012
Dances for thee, Death, feastings for thee!
“ When lilacs last in the Dooryard Bloom’d”, a magnificent elegy, expresses the deep sense of loss that Walt Whitman felt after the assassination of President Abraham Lincoln on 15 th April 1865. When Whitman first heard of the assassination, it was the spring of the year and the lilacs were in...
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Monday, November 5, 2012
O grave, keep shut lest I be shamed ...
The Poet Laureate from Herefordshire County in western England, John Masefield lost his mother at six years of age who died while giving birth to his sister. This heartrending experience at an impressionable age left an indelible mark of sorrow on his soul which he found almost impossible to...
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Thursday, November 1, 2012
Abridged Happiness and Extended Suffering
It is the austere language of a diffident man, Hardy, marked with stoical fortitude, patient and uncomplaining, that his poem, “I Look into My Glass”, has an indelibly immediate appeal on the readers’ mind, in his teaching man to face up to Time unflinchingly. Time, with its power, brings...
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Tuesday, October 30, 2012
I taste a liquor never brewed
Emily Dickinson’s “I taste a liquor never brewed” is a symbolic statement on the source of poetic inspiration and the nature of poetic feeling and thought. The poet begins by saying that she tastes a liquor and is becoming intoxicated. The liquor is not any particular kind of brew, as is the product...
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Saturday, October 27, 2012
The Question Mark left behind Life, Death and Immortality
Emily Dickinson’s “Because I could not stop for Death” is a puzzling poem due to its symbolic and ambiguous nature. The poem centers upon her obsessive theme of Life, Death and Immortality. In the first stanza Death comes in a vehicle accompanied by Immortality. Death is kindly, thereby ironically...
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Sunday, October 21, 2012
Symbolic Significance of Hawthorne's Title The House of the Seven Gables
In The House of the Seven Gables Hawthorne, from the start, describes the House of the Seven Gables as if it were human. He says: “The aspect of the venerable mansion has always affected me like a human countenance, --- expressions of the long lapse of mortal life”. Personification in later...
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Tuesday, October 16, 2012
The House of the Seven Gables
The theme of Hawthorne’s novel The House of the Seven Gables is that the sins of the fathers are passed on to the children in succeeding generations. The seven gables are symbolic representations of the seven deadly sins. The old colonial Pyncheon House in Salem, Massachusetts with its seven gables...
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Sunday, October 14, 2012
Why Modern Tragedies Lack the Splendor of Ancient Greek Tragedy?
Critics are in general agreement that Tennessee Williams’ play The Glass Menagerie falls short of Tragedy. The characters of the play lack the stature of the older tragic heroes, and their values and aims in life also are not as worthy or exalted. All the four characters – mother Amanda Wingfield,...
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Saturday, October 13, 2012
Emerson’s Self-Reliance and its Relation to Society and Tradition
Individualism, which is a recurring theme of Emerson, finds its most elaborate exposition in his essay, “Self-Reliance”. “Self-Reliance”, his key doctrine, is contained in the first Epigraph “Do not seek yourself outside yourself”, and is also expressed more succinctly in “Trust yourself”. To...
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