leads to the murder of Agamemnon by Clytemnestra (the latter being the daughter of Leda) Sailing to Byzantium It uses a journey to Constantinople (Byzantium) as a metaphor for a spiritual journey. 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. Second
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Congreve : The way of the World Goldsmith : She stoops to conquer Unit-III - MODERN LITERATURE (1798 - 1832) Poetry For Detailed Study Wordsworth : Immortality Ode‚ Tintern Abbey Coleridge : Ode to Dejection‚ Kubla Khan Keats : Ode on a Grecian Urn‚ Ode to Autumn. Shelley : Ode to the West Wind
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* History of Neo-Classical Age:- 1. The Age of Neo-Classical in English Literature. 2. Neo-Classical can be divided into three parts. 3. Characteristic of the Neo-Classical Age. 4. Poetry. 5. Court Poets. 6. Satiric Poets. 7. Some poets of Neo-classical Age‚ -Mathew Prior -Alexander Pope -James Thomson -Edward Young -William Collins -Thomas Gray -Robert Burns -John Dryden
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The poet William Wordsworth (1770 - 1850) believes that every human being is a sojourner in the mortal world‚ whereas his real home being heaven. In fact‚ the poet starts with the major premise that men descend form God. To Wordsworth‚ God was everywhere manifest in the harmony of nature‚ and he felt deeply the kinship between nature and the soul of humankind. Man has his soul which knows no decay and destruction. But as one is born‚ one begins to be confined within the flesh. The soul‚ bound in
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Victorian Age The beginning of the Victorian Period is dated sometimes as 1832 (the passage of the first Reform Bill) and sometimes as 1837 (the accession of Queen Victoria). It extends to the death of Victoria in 1901. But when we refer the history book of W. J. Long and literary terms of M. H. Abraham‚ we find that the period between 1850 -1900 is regarded as the Victorian Period‚ which is also known as the Age of Compromise and the Age of Peace and Prosperity. When Victoria came on the
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writing‚ as well as the world at large. Both agree that process of actualizing oneself requires the intervention of technology. Although undoubtedly different from one another‚ both writers seem to suggest that machinery will lead to a type of immortality‚ whether literally or theoretically. In their writing‚ technology acts as an active facilitator in the process of achieving eternal life. In the opening of his Technical Manifesto of Futurist Literature‚ Marinetti is “Sitting astride the fuel
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According to multiple scholars‚ sonnet 55 is a poem about time and immortalization. The speaker claims that his poem will immortalize the beloved‚ in this case the young man. According to Alison Scott‚ the speaker is seeking to “give” the gift of immortality to the young man through his poetry‚ adhering to a larger theme of giving and possessing that runs through many of Shakespeare’s sonnets.[1] David Kaula‚ however‚ emphasizes the concept of time slightly differently. He argues that the sonnet traces
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William Wordsworth (1770-1850)‚ an early leader of romanticism in English poetry‚ ranks as one of the greatest lyric poets in the history of English literature. William Wordsworth was born in Cookermouth‚ Cumberland‚ on April 7‚ 1770‚ the second child of an attorney. Unlike the other major English romantic poets‚ he enjoyed a happy childhood under the loving care of his mother and in close intimacy with his younger sister Dorothy (1771-1855). As a child‚ he wandered exuberantly through the lovely
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Romantic period analysis The beauty of nature and its ability to set you free‚ the powers of imagination‚ individuality and a rebellion to tyranny are some of the ideas the romantic period brought to society’s attention. While rejecting neoclassical views of order‚ reason‚ tradition‚ society and formal diction. Romanticism allowed people to get away from the constrained rational views of life and concentrate on an emotional and sentimental side of humanity. The definition of poetry by
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Love‚ Death‚ Beauty & Fame : Life experiences and feelings of John Keats as they influenced his writing. John Keats was born in 1979‚ the son of Horse-stable keeper. Keats was an orphan by the age of fourteen; he was an apprentice of a surgeon for certain time but decided to move on to poetry instead. His early works were famously savaged by the critics‚ but Keats remained assured in "drive" that eventually be "among the English poets". Keats ’s longed for marriage to Fanny Brawne was prevented
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