The Fly by Katherine Mansfield: Significance of Fly Episode
The Fly by Katherine Mansfield has a unique identity that characterizes the vagueness, the intensity as well as the desire for stability and the lack of it, which is an integral part of the modern world. Time- identified as the worst enemy of man as early as the “carpe-diem” theorists of the renaissance, achieves deadlier […]
The Return of the Native: Hardy’s Tragic Vision
Egdon Heath, sunk in history, representing both Man and the stage on which human drama has been performed from time immemorial, sets the tone for the sombre story of trapped human passions in Thomas Hardy’s The Return of the Native. The dark violence of Eustacia Vye, the idealistic intelligence of Clym, the will and affection […]
Tagore’s The Living and the Dead: A Psychoanalytic Study
The Living and The Dead: Understanding Silence In numerous literary expressions, down the ages, there has been a constant suppression of the voice of the female counterpart. This indoctrination of the mind, to equate silence with virtue takes on a different turn if this is understood as a mode of deflection as aptly pointed out […]
Innocence and Experience: William Blake’s Concept of Contraries
In his attempt to communicate his essential divine vision, William Blake created a poetic world where images are realized in their individual contexts and the contexts are realized in the unique Imagination of the poet. Blake’s philosophy asserts, more than anything else, the contrariety of systems with regard to human soul and other objects of […]
Satan in Paradise Lost Book I : An Epic Hero Or A Repulsive Hypocrite
One of the primary questions that perplexes the readers of Milton’s Paradise Lost concerns the poet’s delineation of Satan, the chief of the Fallen angels. Throughout the first two or three books of Paradise Lost, it appears as if Satan is the hero of the poem. This is partly because the focus of the poem […]
Porphyria’s Lover by Robert Browning as a Dramatic Monologue
Porphyria’s Lover by Robert Browning is an extraordinary poem in the form of a dramatic monologue. The poetry of Robert Browning exemplifies a dominant and perhaps the most original tendency of the Victorian times: the craving for analysis and moral criticism. It is a deep rooted intellectual curiosity which merges into a systematic quest of […]
Kubla Khan by Coleridge : A Fragment or A Coherent Whole
Kubla Khan by Coleridge records an opium-induced dream, interrupted by a visitor from Porlock. The poem has been taken to be a beautiful but chaotic fragment where images float about confusedly. However, Kubla Khan, with its pleasure dome, its sacred river, its panting fountain, its caves of ice and its portrayal of the frenzied poet […]
The Cactus by O Henry : A Story About The Irony of Fate
The Cactus by O Henry is a characteristic short story showing the subtle art of storytelling that O Henry is famous for. For O. Henry, the short story was not just a literary act of communicating his artistic imagination, but also a vehicle to explore the extreme possibilities of such an endeavor. His stories are […]
A Short Introduction to English Sonnet
English sonnet, as a poetic genre is intimately connected to the continental poetic movements. The “sonnet” is traced back to Francis Petrarch, whose sonnets (14th C Italian) were popular throughout western Europe. Early sonnets were less strict about form, and a sonnet could be slightly longer or shorter than the traditional 14 lines of rhymed […]
Role of Circus People in Hard Times
The role of circus people in Hard Times is both tangible and symbolic. Dickens presents the world of circus as diametrically opposite to the world of realism. The primary essence of Charles Dickens’s art lies in his ability to transform the mundane visible reality to an altered quasi- symbolic environment, where the characters get elevated […]