Of all the elusive‚ seductive concepts shared by the disciplines of literary studies‚ art‚ and psychology‚ genius is among the most scoffed at‚ the least understood. To hear‚ as I have heard‚ a literature professor say that he "doesn’t believe in genius‚" as if millions of people haven’t attained I.Q. scores in excess of 140‚ or as if anyone‚ if he or she only worked vigorously enough‚ could pen a single work comparable to The Canterbury Tales or Paradise Lost or The Rape of the Lock‚ is to know
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Green Life Nursing Institute‚ Diploma in Nursing Science & Midwifery Session : 2010 --- 2011 Subject: English lll 3rd year Final Exam of 5th semester Full marks: 50 July 2013 Time: 2 hrs 1. Read the passage carefully and answer the following questions. 3×5= 15 Insomnia can be caused by medication‚ herbs or caffeine‚ stressful life events can also be a contributing factor
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Vallon and married a childhood friend named Mary Hutchinson. The couple conceived five kids together. Later on they grieved the loss of two of their children‚ Catherine and John‚ who both died in 1812. Wordsworth and his sister‚ Dorothy‚ met Samuel Coleridge in 1795. They all became extremely close and later worked together to publish the famous Lyrical Ballads. They collaborated on many
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of the passage below‚ explain your response. There have been many interpretations of the Rime of the Ancient Mariner‚ such as the belief that inspiration for the poem was based on Coleridge’s belief that God is present everywhere in nature. Coleridge supports the idea of a religious text; “And I had done a hellish thing” as he describes the Mariner’s sinful act of killing the albatross and removing the good omen from the sailors‚ condemning them to “the silence of the sea.” “I had kill’d the
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the mysterious‚ strange or supernatural is widely seen in Romantic Poetry. Through this idea‚ many authors were able to convey their love of nature. In “Rime of the Ancient Mariner”‚ Coleridge uses imagery‚ alliteration and similes to demonstrate the isolation of the Mariner. In “Rime of the Ancient Mariner”‚ Coleridge uses imagery to demonstrate the isolation of the mariner. “Alone‚ alone‚ all‚ all alone‚ alone on a wide sea!” (4.9) This quote illustrates the point that the mariner is very isolated
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regarding Colonial Discourse: As a product of the complex discursive web of the 18th century‚ the Orientalist Coleridge could not act out of such historical forces as colonialism that had gone into shaping him and his poetry.He‚ in post colonial discourse‚ was unable to go parallel with the theory of ‘Arts for Arts sake’ and ‘Willing Suspension of Disbelief’. In Kubla Khan‚Coleridge is trying to establish the heagemony of Abyssinian Christianity which according to him is more pure and can only
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Freud believed that Hamlet did not kill Claudius the first time he saw him because Hamlet saw himself as the enemy. This sounds like a solid reason to me. Who am I to say that it is not? However‚ I also find Samuel Taylor Coleridge’s reasoning very interesting. He believed that Hamlet did not kill Claudius the first time because he was praying. This sounds almost too easy‚ although very legitimate. Now‚ I am not one to say which interpretation is right‚ or even ponder
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rather want to focus more accurately on how ’Nature’ is used by Pope and Coleridge‚ respectively. With other words‚ I would like to analyse the function of the concept of ’Nature’. The fact is‚ that even if these poets do not exhaustively characterise Nature’ itself‚ they employ it in a lot of different analogies and metaphors to articulate and embody for example ideas about ’morality’ (Pope) or the intimate ’self’ (Coleridge). My argument would be to show that in both cases‚ nature has a sort of
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of whether it is a complete poem or an incomplete piece of work is an enigma. Although Coleridge claimed that his poem was a mere fragment‚ he did not refer to it as unfinished. Kubla Khan might be an incomplete idea‚ but it is still a complete poem because of it’s last two conclusive stanzas which might have been written post-interruption. The first couple of stanzas in this poem are simply imagery. Coleridge describes the vision of Xanadu and introduces Kubla Khan in a very progressive tone
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the Narrative Methods used in Part 1 of The Rime of the Ancient Mariner. Part one of The Rime of the Ancient Mariner opens with a third person omniscient narrator: ‘It is an ancient Marinere‚ And he stoppeth one of three.’ This person represents Coleridge as he knows everything that is happening in the poem‚ and he is setting the scene for the rest of the lyrical ballad. Other people may take the view that the omniscient narrator represents God‚ as he is seen by religious people as the only person
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