AD's English Literature

"For God's sake hold your tongue and let me love." The Canonization of Love in John Donne's "The Canonization": Unparalleled Devotion John Donne's Unique Blend of Physicality and Spirituality in Love Poetry Even more than Petrarch and Spenser, John Donne is a poet of Love. The poem , " The Canonization" embodies all those qualities which make Donne’s poetry of love non-peril. Although he conceives of love as one of the most invigorating and vigorous aspects of life and sometimes even raises it to the position of supreme importance’ his is no mere echo of the Petrarchian love –worship of the beloved. On the other hand   " The Canonization ," is a mire situation of love . Donne is at once physical and spiritual, for he does not separate the two into exclusive categories. Farther,  " The Canonization ," also speaks of love not in the deliquescing and meting rhythm of the poets of yore but in the vigorous and coll...

SONNET 116 by  William Shakespeare Let me not to the marriage of true minds Admit impediments. Love is not love Which alters when it alteration finds, Or bends with the remover to remove: O no! it is an ever-fixed mark That looks on tempests and is never shaken; It is the star to every wandering bark, Whose worth's unknown, although his height be taken. Love's not Time's fool, though rosy lips and cheeks Within his bending sickle's compass come: Love alters not with his brief hours and weeks, But bears it out even to the edge of doom. If this be error and upon me proved, I never writ, nor no man ever loved. "Let me not to the marriage of true minds   Admit impediments." Rhetoric: 1.  This is a case  of  Hyperbaton   which is a form of inversion of word order, since the normal word order should have been "Do not let me admit impediments to the marriage of true minds"   . 2.This is also a case of synecdoche (abstract for the cocrety...

Power and Agony as Themes in Christopher Marlowe's "Edward II" The Tragic Consequences of Self-Assertion and Power in "Edward II" Some critics are of the view that Christopher Marlowe's "Edward-II"  is a play of  “power and suffering.” This theme, in a very large manner is visible in the play. The root cause in the working of this theme is the common flaw of self assertion or the exercise of power by the characters who are responsible for the inevitable tragedy of the play.  The play explores the tragic downfall of King Edward II of England, focusing on the conflicts arising from the abuse and pursuit of power.  Abuse of Power "Edward-II"  highlights the destructive consequences of misusing power. King Edward II prioritizes his personal desires, particularly his infatuation with his favorite, Piers Gaveston, over the responsibilities of his position. This abuse of power angers the nobles and the Queen, leading to rebellion and political ...

The Good-Morrow BY JOHN DONNE I wonder, by my troth, what thou and I Did, till we loved? Were we not weaned till then? But sucked on country pleasures, childishly? Or snorted we in the Seven Sleepers’ den? ’Twas so; but this, all pleasures fancies be. If ever any beauty I did see, Which I desired, and got, ’twas but a dream of thee. And now good-morrow to our waking souls, Which watch not one another out of fear; For love, all love of other sights controls, And makes one little room an everywhere. Let sea-discoverers to new worlds have gone, Let maps to other, worlds on worlds have shown, Let us possess one world, each hath one, and is one. My face in thine eye, thine in mine appears, And true plain hearts do in the faces rest; Where can we find two better hemispheres, Without sharp north, without declining west? Whatever dies, was not mixed equally; If our two loves be one, or, thou and I Love so alike, that none do slacken, none can die.   I wonder by my trouth , what thou , an...

SONNET  NO. 73 by William Shakespeare That time of year thou mayst in me behold When yellow leaves, or none, or few, do hang Upon those boughs which shake against the cold, Bare ruin'd choirs, where late the sweet birds sang.    In me thou see'st the twilight of such day As after sunset fadeth in the west; Which by and by black night doth take away, Death's second self, that seals up all in rest.     In me thou see'st the glowing of such fire, That on the ashes of his youth doth lie, As the death-bed, whereon it must expire, Consum'd with that which it was nourish'd by.    This thou perceiv'st, which makes thy love more strong, To love that well, which thou must leave ere long. That time of year thou mayst in me behold When yellow leaves, or none, or few, do hang Upon those boughs which shake against the cold, Bare ruin'd choirs, where late the sweet birds sang.   Rhetoric:  1.It is a case of Hyperbaton because the no...

Go and catch a falling star  by John Donne  Go and catch a falling star, Get with child a mandrake root, Tell me where all past years are, Or who cleft the Devil's foot, Teach me to hear mermaids singing, Or to keep off envy's stinging, And find What wind Serves to advance an honest mind.If thou be'st born to strange sights, Things invisible to see, Ride ten thousand days and nights, Till age snow white hairs on thee; Thou, when thou return'st, wilt tell me All strange wonders that befell thee, And swear No where Lives a woman true, and fair.If thou find'st one, let me know, Such a pilgrimage were sweet; Yet do not, I would not go, Though at next door we might meet: Though she were true, when you met her, And last, till you write your letter, Yet she Will be False, ere I come, to two or three. "Go and catch a falling star": This line employs an imperative tone, Hyperbolic. commanding the reader to undertake a seemingly impossible task. It sets up the t...

 'They flee from me that sometime did me seek, With naked foot stalking in my chamber. '           This  is a case  of Metaphor .The women have been  here  compared to predatory animals  through their  prey is not ordinary food but sexual flood.    --It is also a case of Hyperbaton since the word order in ‘did me seek’ has been changed from the usual one .     ' That sometime they put themselves in danger To take bread at my hand; and now they range Busily seeking with a continual change. '     --- This is a case of Metaphor since the amorous women have been here compared to birds while the poet himself  has been compared to the feeder . The comparisons are left in explicit .

 "Had we but world enough and time,  This coyness, lady, were no crime."  Here, the speaker uses the rhetorical device of conditional statement to suggest that if they had endless time, there would be no reason for the mistress to be coy. However, the speaker quickly acknowledges the limitations of time and the brevity of human life.      “ Thou by the Indian Ganges' side   Shouldst rubies find; I by the tide   Of Humber would complain. I would   Love you ten years before the Flood;   And you should, if you please, refuse     Till the conversion of the Jews. ” This is a case of Hyperbole . The poet exaggerates the extant of physical distance between the two lovers . He also exaggerates the length of time for which they would love each other .  This is also a case of Allusion since flood refers to here alludes to the Biblical flood in which  none but No an  and his family was left alone .    ...

A Set of 26 Objective Questions & Answers A.  In poetry, a tercet is a unit of three lines that usually contain end rhyme; a couplet is a two-line unit that usually contains end rhyme. Shelley wrote the tercets in a verse form called terza rima, invented by Dante Alighieri . exp: P.B. Shelley ‘s Ode to the West Wind Read More A to Z (Objective Questions)                                 B. “A man may have many moods; he has but one spirit; and this spirit he communicates in some subtle, unconscious way to all his work. It waxes and wanes with the currents of his vitality, but no more alter than a chestnut changes into an oak.” Read More A to Z (Objective Questions) FROM The Inn of Tranquility JOHN GALSWORTHY C. Macaulay's "History of England" contains a vast amount of information, but it is not its stores of inf...

The Agony of Ajax: Exploring Sympathy, Honor's Consequences, and a Tragic End A Fallen Hero's Wrath: Ajax's Quest for Revenge and Tragic Consequences "Ajax" is a Greek tragedy written by the renowned playwright Sophocles. It tells the story of the Greek hero Ajax, who is a key figure in the Trojan War. The play explores themes of honor, pride, and the consequences of one's actions.  It is generally agreed that Ajax and The Antigone are the two earliest extant plays by Sophocles ; which of the two was produced first it is difficult to say. Perhaps an important feature of technique settles this—both tragedies need three actors, but the Ajax in this respect is more tentative than the Antigone . The scene is laid before the tent of Ajax on the plain of Troy. Enraged by the action of the Greeks in awarding to Odysseus instead of to himself the arms of the dead Achilles, Ajax sought to slay Agamemnon, Menelaus, and others in their sleep.  The goddess Athena sent ...