AD's English Literature

T he second part of William Langland ’s Piers the Plowman or Visio Willelmi de Piers depicts the life of Do-Well. Do-Well (Dowel) manifests itself in the form of Do-Well, Do-Better and Do-Best. The life of Do-Well is seen from Passus VIII to Passus XIV . The poet is in quest of Do-Well. He meets various abstract qualities, such as Thought, Wit, Clergy, Scripture, Imagination, etc. He enquires of them about Do-Well. Each replies in its own way, but the Dreamer is not satisfied with any reply. Read More Middle English As Wikipedia says, “ Piers the Plowman —part theological allegory, part social satire—concerns the narrator's intense quest for the true Christian life, from the perspective of medieval Catholicism. This quest entails a series of dream-visions and an examination into the lives of three allegorical characters, Dowel ( "Do-Well" ), Dobet ( "Do-Better" ), and Dobest ( "Do-Best" ).” Do-Well stands for certain virtues and positive...

"When you write in prose, you cook the rice. When you write poetry, you turn rice into rice wine. Cooked rice doesn't change its shape, but rice wine changes both in quality and shape. Cooked rice makes one full so one can live out one's life span . . . wine, on the other hand, makes one drunk, makes the sad happy, and the happy sad. Its effect is sublimely beyond explanation." - Wu Qiao   Introduction: The Elements of  Poetry   The elements of poetry that differentiate it from the other major genres of literature, drama and the novel, give us a better understanding of poetry . With some suitable eyes, a reader is able to indicate as well as demonstrate the nature of these elements and their contribution to the effectiveness or quality of a poem. The elements – imagery, rhythm, sound and diction –are the vehicles that the poet utilizes to convey his thoughts and emotions as well as delight his readers. Read More: How to analyze a poem: Technicality &  Ethics ...

Walter De la Mare 's  'Silver'    describes the beauty of a moonlit night and the effect of the moonlight on the earth. The poet has sketched a number of different pictures of the moonlight scene through extended metaphors. But as we know De la Mare's writings have an eerie, fantastic quality, which serves as a means of entry into a world of deeper reality, his perceptions in  'Silver'   endow   with charm and candor .  Read More  Poetry The moon is here merely not a physical form, lifeless, moving around earth.  Moon   is a Personification of a muse. The silver moon turns everything into mystic beauty. The light of the moon falls on different objects and things and turns them into silver. The repetition of the word  'Silver' in the poem creates a vivid picture before our eyes of silvery moonlight.    In the beginning the poet gives a human personality to the poem, He pictures the moon as a young lady w...

" He that hath wife and children hath given hostages to fortune; for they are impediments to great enterprises, either of virtue or mischief." Francis Bacon  (1561 - 1626) English philosopher, statesman, and lawyer. Essays ,  "Of Marriage and the Single Life" (Note: Sir Francis Bacon,  English philosopher and statesman,  who is notorious for his Machiavellism , is also very simple and pleasant when the subject happens to be of human interest apart from ambition or politics etc. Bacon’s scholarship, observation, wisdom and analytical faculties are always  evident   ; and are employed to great advantage.  Bacon rose through the ranks of the Elizabethan bureaucracy to achieve the position of Lord Chancellor during the reign of King James I. Bacon wrote important literary and philosophical works and was a major contributor to modern scientific thought. His Essays (published sporadically between 1597 and 1625) incorporate elements of al...

Marcel Junod ’s essay The First Atom Bomb  (from " Warrior without Weapons" written by the ICRC's Dr. Marcel Junod, the first foreign doctor to reach Hiroshima after the atom bomb attack on 6 August 1945, and to treat some of the victims) describes the terrible destruction of practically everything of the once prosperous city of Hiroshima in Japan on 6th August, 1945 as a result of the atom bomb, used for the first time in warfare.  Though the Second World War ended soon after, it revealed the great danger of a war in future. The whole essay may be divided into three sharp sections on the three following points: (a) The description of the prosperous Hiroshima, (b) The detailed account of the destruction of the city by the atom bomb, (c) MacArthur’s speech on the futility of war.

O scar Wilde’s one of the stylish fairy tales The Selfish Giant was included in, The Happy Prince and Other Tales published in 1888. Noted for his witty dialogues, humour, careful choice of words and arrangement of words, Oscar Wilde showed his best in The Selfish Giant . Very simple and very interesting story The Selfish Giant is full of inner meaning and moral message. It suggests that if we give happiness to others we can also feel happiness in our life. The story tells about a giant who was really selfish. In fact, The Selfish Giant moves around a person who is very selfish by nature. He is tall, massive and looks ugly. He doesn’t like the children who are playing in his Garden. His selfishness was quite evident in the act of his depriving the children from the pleasures of his garden. The Selfish Giant tells the story of the moral decay of everyman. An adherent of the principle that art exists for art’s sake, Wilde sets out the painting everyman’s inner corruption and wa...