Ven. Akshay Kamble

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#LITERARY_TERMS #PART_1 #Allegory A story or picture with two or more different meanings – a literal meaning and one or more symbolic meanings. The setting, characters, and things that happen inside an allegory are symbols for ideas or qualities. #Alliteration The repeating of consonant sounds. The repetition can be put side by side (for example, "sleepy sun sank slowly over the sea"). #Allusion A figure of speech which refers indirectly to a situation, and leaves the reader (or audience) to make the connection. #Analogy New words, ideas, or pronunciations become like the pattern of older or more familiar ones. Comparing two different things. The purpose of an analogy is to describe something unfamiliar or new with something that is more familiar. #Antagonist The character who the main character has the most conflict with. The antagonist is not always a person or animal, however: for example, the main character could have the most conflict again

ANGLO-NORMAN PERIOD OR MIDDLE ENGLISH LITERATURE INTRODUCTION : The Normans, who were residing in Normandy (France) defeated the Anglo-Saxon King at the Battle of Hastings (1066) and conquered England. The Norman Conquest inaugurated a distinctly new epoch in the literary as well as political history of England. The Anglo-Saxon authors were then as suddenly and permanently displaced as the Anglo-Saxon king. The literature afterwards read and written by Englishmen was thereby as completely transformed as the sentiments and tastes of English rulers. The foreign types of literature introduced after the Norman Conquest first found favour with the monarchs and courtiers, and were deliberately fostered by them, to the disregard of native forms. No effective protest was possible by the Anglo-Saxons, and English thought for centuries to come was largely fashioned in the manner of the French. Throughout the whole period, which we call the Middle English period (as belonging to the Midd

The_Anglo_Saxon_Or_Old_English_Period_In_English_Literature_670_1100. #INTRODUCTION: The earliest phase of English literature started with Anglo-Saxon literature of the Angles and Saxons (the ancestors of the English race) much before they occupied Britain. English was the common name and tongue of these tribes. Before they occupied Britain they lived along the coasts of Sweden and Denmark, and the land which they occupied was called Engle-land. These tribes were fearless, adventurous and brave, and during the later years of Roman occupation ofBritain, they kept the British coast in terror. Like other nations they sang at their feasts about battles, gods and their ancestral heroes, and some of their chiefs were also bards. It was in these songs of religion, wars and agriculture, that English poetry began in the ancient Engle-land while Britain was still a Roman province. #POETRY: Though much of this Anglo-Saxon poetry is lost, there are still some fragments left. For example, W

William Shakespeare Shakespeare is still considered the greatest writer of the English language. He was able to capture the human emotion and that is why his works have stood the test of time when many others have been forgotten. He has create passages and works that almost everyone in the world can recognize even if they don’t know Shakespeare very well because he is that well known. William Shakespeares works: Scholars distinguish three periods in William Shakespeares works. The first period (roughly from 1590 to 1594), during which he wrote mainly gay comedies and dramatic histories. This is the period of optimism of William Shakespeare. The middle period (roughly from 1600 to 1608), during which he wrote great tragedies and bitter comedies. This is the period of maturity of William Shakespeare. The late period (roughly from 1609 to 1612), during which he wrote legendary and lyrical plays, and tragic comedies. Tragedies Shakespeare wrote eleven tragedies b

The Passionate Shepherd to His Love BY CHRISTOPHER MARLOWE Come live with me and be my love, And we will all the pleasures prove, That Valleys, groves, hills, and fields, Woods, or steepy mountain yields. And we will sit upon the Rocks, Seeing the Shepherds feed their flocks, By shallow Rivers to whose falls Melodious birds sing Madrigals. And I will make thee beds of Roses And a thousand fragrant posies, A cap of flowers, and a kirtle Embroidered all with leaves of Myrtle; A gown made of the finest wool Which from our pretty Lambs we pull; Fair lined slippers for the cold, With buckles of the purest gold; A belt of straw and Ivy buds, With Coral clasps and Amber studs: And if these pleasures may thee move, Come live with me, and be my love. The Shepherds’ Swains shall dance and sing For thy delight each May-morning: If these delights thy mind may move, Then live with me, and be my love.

" The Poor Ghost " by Christina Rossetti "Oh whence do you come, my dear friend, to me, With your golden hair all fallen below your knee, And your face as white as snowdrops on the lea, And your voice as hollow as the hollow sea?" "From the other world I come back to you, My locks are uncurled with dripping drenching dew. You know the old, whilst I know the new: But tomorrow you shall know this too." "Oh not tomorrow into the dark, I pray; Oh not tomorrow, too soon to go away: Here I feel warm and well-content and gay: Give me another year, another day." "Am I so changed in a day and a night That mine own only love shrinks from me with fright, Is fain to turn away to left or right And cover up his eyes from the sight?" "Indeed I loved you, my chosen friend, I loved you for life, but life has an end; Thro' sickness I was ready to tend: But death mars all, which we cannot mend. "Indeed I loved you; I lo

" Love and a Question " by Robert Frost A stranger came to the door at eve, And he spoke the bridegroom fair. He bore a green-white stick in his hand, And, for all burden, care. He asked with the eyes more than the lips For a shelter for the night, And he turned and looked at the road afar Without a window light. The bridegroom came forth into the porch With, 'Let us look at the sky, And question what of the night to be, Stranger, you and I.' The woodbine leaves littered the yard, The woodbine berries were blue, Autumn, yes, winter was in the wind; 'Stranger, I wish I knew.' Within, the bride in the dusk alone Bent over the open fire, Her face rose-red with the glowing coal And the thought of the heart's desire. The bridegroom looked at the weary road, Yet saw but her within, And wished her heart in a case of gold And pinned with a silver pin. The bridegroom thought it little to give A dole of bread, a purse, A heartfelt prayer

Introduction: Geoffrey Chaucer's The Canterbury Tales is an anthology of 24 tales written in Middle English. Textual Background: Geoffrey Chaucer wrote this story in the late 1300’s but never finished it. He wrote in the native language or vernacular of the Medieval period in Britain called Middle English. Chaucer's original plan was for over 100 stories, but only 24 were completed, some of which had already been written for earlier works. Overview: Fragment I: General Prologue The General Prologue is a basic descriptive list of the twenty-nine people who become pilgrims to journey to Canterbury. The pilgrims, who come from all layers of society, tell stories to each other to kill time while they travel to Canterbury. The Host, Harry Bailey decides that every pilgrim will tell 2 stories on the road to Canterbury and other 2 on the way back. The person he judges to tell the best tale will receive a free meal at the Tabard Inn at Southwark when they return.

hat is a Classic by T.S. Eliot – CRITICAL SUMMARY Introduction and Appreciation ‘What is a classic?’ is the Presidential address delivered by Eliot to the Virgil Society in 1944. It was first published in his volume of essays entitled On Poets and Poetry in 1957. It is a thought-provoking essay in which Eliot expresses his views on the distinguishing features of classic art and literature. The question “What is a classic?” has always been asked since times immemorial, and most varied answers have been given. The word classic has been used merely to mean a “standard author”. It has been used for either Greek and Latin literatures in toto or the greatest authors of these languages. The term “Classic” has also been used as an antithesis to the term “Romantic”. The word would continue to have most varied meanings in varied contexts. But in the present chapter, Eliot is concerned with one particular meaning of the word in one context, his purpose being to show that Virgil alone is a ‘cl

The Victorian Age : Topics : 21 - The Painterly Image in Poetry : Texts and Contexts : Moxon's Illustrated Tennyson : In 1857, the publisher Edward Moxon put together an illustrated collection of Tennyson's poetry for which a number of the Pre-Raphaelite artists drew illustrations. William Holman Hunt and Dante Gabriel Rossetti created the two illustrations below for The Lady of Shalott (NAEL 8, 2.1114). Hunt's engraving illustrates the following lines: Out flew the web and floated wide; The mirror cracked from side to side; "The curse is come upon me," cried       The Lady of Shalott. Hunt shows the Lady imprisoned by the tapestry she has been weaving and entangled in its threads. Lancelot, whose riding by has led her to look directly at the world outside and bring the curse upon herself, is pictured in the broken mirror behind her. Tennyson objected to this feature of Hunt's illustration when it was published because his lines do not have the Lady e