AD's English Literature

SONNET 60 Like as the waves make towards the pebbled shore, So do our minutes hasten to their end; Each changing place with that which goes before, In sequent toil all forwards do contend.  Nativity, once in the main of light, Crawls to maturity, wherewith being crown'd, Crooked eclipses 'gainst his glory fight, And Time that gave doth now his gift confound. Time doth transfix the flourish set on youth And delves the parallels in beauty's brow, Feeds on the rarities of nature's truth, And nothing stands but for his scythe to mow:    And yet to times in hope my verse shall stand,    Praising thy worth, despite his cruel hand. This is one of the most famous of the William Shakespeare ’s sonnets and perhaps the best illustration of the theme of the ravages of time. Each quatrain engages the theme in a unique way, with the destructive force of time redoubling with each successive line. Although the poet seems certain that Time’s destruction i...

  When first he threw in his lot with the playwrights,  Ben Jonson  frankly followed the current demand for romantic  drama , showing no small skill in adopting the full – blooded romantic manner. Even here, in the early years of apprenticeship, he displayed vigorous power of imagination; but romantic drama was not characteristically expressive of the man’s personality. After his dismissal by the theatrical manager, Henslowe, a rival manager – William Shakespeare – came forward and helped him to put on his comedy,  Every Man in His Humour . It  was performed in 1598 by the  Lord Chamberlain's Company  with  William Shakespeare  in the cast.      Here Jonson for the first time struck the anti – romantic note, and sought to establish a satirical comedy of manners framed in a definite plan. He saw clearly enough that despite the splendid, exuberant power of the Shakespearean drama, there was no underlying theory or conventi...

Even though the Spenserian Sonnet Sequence of Amoretti parallels the contemporary sequences like Sidney’s Astrophel and Stella , Daniel's Delia , Drayton’s Idea , and Shakespeare's sonnets , it is unique in the realm of love-sonnets by the virtue of its dramatic lyrics.  In fact, both Spenser's "Amoretti Sonnet 75" and Sidney's "Astrophel and Stella Sonnet 1" deal with themes of love and its challenges, but they approach these themes differently. Spenser's sonnet emphasizes the impermanence of love and life through vivid imagery, while Sidney's sonnet highlights the poet's personal struggle to find the right words to express his love for Stella. Each sonnet offers a unique perspective on the complexities of human emotion and the art of poetry. Sonnet No.75 (One day I wrote her name upon the strand) of Amoretti not only presents the dramatic background for the intensely personal colloquy between the lover and the beloved, but it s...

SONNET 18 Shall I compare thee to a summer's day? Thou art more lovely and more temperate: Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May, And summer's lease hath all too short a date:  Sometime too hot the eye of heaven shines, And often is his gold complexion dimm'd; And every fair from fair sometime declines, By chance or nature's changing course untrimm'd; But thy eternal summer shall not fade Nor lose possession of that fair thou owest; Nor shall Death brag thou wander'st in his shade, When in eternal lines to time thou growest: So long as men can breathe or eyes can see, So long lives this and this gives life to thee.    William Shakespeare ’s sonnets are grouped in a rough pattern, loosely linked by subject matter, stylistic device, or theme. The first 126 sonnets are addressed to the young nobleman. In the first 17 sonnets the poet urges the young man to marry and beget children, since his youth will fade.However, William Shakespe...

Difficulty Level:  Graduation       Time: 2hr Each Question: Word Limit: 30   1. What is the called pantheism?                                                                                                 Ans- The concept that everything is God or mature is God. In Christian terms this was somewhat flawed if not heretical. Such is the W ordsw or thian view that nature is spiritually fel t and transmuted. His views evolved  and changed but they fundamentally saw a supernal element in...