Lit. 103 World Literatures Preliminary Examination Reviewer ------------------------------------------------- Indian-Chinese-Japanese Indian Literature Aryan race- invaded India from North West * Brahmanism‚ Hinduism‚ and Jainism were their religions Gautama Buddha- made many changes in the old religion; his teachings later became the basis for one of the five major religions Sanskrit- oldest extant Aryan language‚ used in most Ancient Indian literature 2 Periods of Indian Literature
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The Role Of Nature In Romantic Poetry Focusing On Wordsworth‚Keats And Shelley Statement Of Problem Many english literature students‚when faced with romantic poetry due to lack of familiarity the importance and place of nature in romantic poetry ‚don`t understand deeply.therfore‚this study attempts to highlight the role of nature in romanticism for English literature students. Purpose In the present study an attempt has been made to investigate the role of nature and it`s effects on the romantic
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Shakespeare’s Sonnets William Shakespeare The Sonnet Form A sonnet is a fourteen-line lyric poem‚ traditionally written in iambic pentameter—that is‚ in lines ten syllables long‚ with accents falling on every second syllable‚ as in: “Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day?” The sonnet form first became popular during the Italian Renaissance‚ when the poet Petrarch published a sequence of love sonnets addressed to an idealized woman named Laura. Taking firm hold among Italian poets‚ the sonnet
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meaning "seize the day"‚ a Latin phrase from one of Horace’s Odes" (32). As in sonnet 18 Shakespeare writes how his beloved differs from the summer in that respect: his beauty will last forever‚ "Thy eternal summer shall not fade..." (9)‚ and never die. In the couplet‚ Shakespeare explains how his beloved’s beauty will accomplish this feat‚ and not perish because it is preserved in the poem‚ which will last forever‚ "and ensure the immortality of his muse." (Mabillard)‚ "so long as men can breathe or
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supernatural‚ the exotic‚ and the medieval. But they also found beauty in the lives of simple rural people and aspects of the everyday world. The second generation of romantic poets included John Keats‚ Percy Bysshe Shelley‚ and Lord Byron. In Keats’s great odes‚ intellectual and emotional sensibility merge in language of great power and beauty. Shelley‚ who combined soaring lyricism with an apocalyptic political vision‚ sought more extreme effects and occasionally achieved them‚ as in his great drama Prometheus
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death is an issue that we will all have to deal with at some point in our lives and like all Romantics they sought to give it meaning. ____Both writers‚ William Wordsworth and John Keats express a fascination and longing toward eternity and immortality. ____Two of these poets‚ John Keats and William Wordsworth‚ employ these themes in their most prominent poetic works; love‚ nature‚ poetry‚ oneness‚ beauty‚ lover‚ world‚ life and some others. ____ Keats and Wordsworth both focus quite intensely
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ONCE UPON A TIME THE speaker in this poem reminisces about a time when people were sincere and caring in their dealings with one another; he speaks regretfully about the present time‚ when people are not like before. He seems to feel that people have lost the innocence and openness which he now sees in his young son; he wants to regain that innocence. The poem starts with the well-known words "Once upon a time"‚ suggesting that what the speaker is going to say is a fairy tale‚ something so far-fetched
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Symbols of Forest in Literary Imagination :- Ph.Sanamacha Sharma Introduction: Forest implies an spot filled with trees. Without trees‚ a place cannot be called forest. But to understand a forest‚ we cannot talk only of the trees‚ then it would be like discussing a leaf singly by forgetting the whole complexity of the tree. Our talk of forest cannot be complete if we do not speak of the birds‚ animals and insects and other organisms living in it‚ the soil and the rocks‚ the ponds and the rivers
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William Wordsworth: As the Poet of Man “There have been greater poets than Wordsworth but none more original”‚ says A. C. Bradley. Wordsworth’s chief originality is‚ of course‚ to be sought in his poetry of Nature. It must not be supposed‚ however‚ that Wordsworth was interested only in Nature and not in man at all. Man‚ in Wordsworth’s conception‚ is not to be seen apart from Nature‚ but is the very “life of her life”. Indeed‚ Wordsworth’s love of Nature led him to the love of man. Scarcely a
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“Beauty is Goodness‚ Goodness Beauty”: Shelley’s “Awful Shadow” and “Ethical Sublime” Chung-hsuan Tung Intergrams 8.2-9.1 (2008): http://benz.nchu.edu.tw/~intergrams/082-091/082-091-tung.pdf Abstract Truth‚ Beauty‚ and Goodness are three great human ideals belonging to epistemological‚ aesthetic‚ and ethical categories‚ respectively. all other Forms or Ideas including Truth and Beauty. But they are often not easily differentiated. For Plato Goodness is the supreme Form or Idea governing
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