In Mary Shelley's Frankenstein we find that Monster gets a knowledge to think , make an argument, etc. What is the key aspect that makes the monster a real monster ? If he doesn't read books and then what is happening.
The poem "The Good-Morrow" by John Donne is a love lyric composed of 3 stanzas of 7 lines each with an ABBAACC rhyme scheme. It explores the awakening of love between two souls and their discovery of one another. The speaker questions what they were doing before falling in love, comparing their previous states to children unaware of love. Now united, they find a world in each other and need no other discoveries. In each other's eyes, they see their passions reflected as in a mirror, their love blending them into a unified whole.
Analysis of the Poem :' The Extasie' by John DonneNirav Amreliya
The document is an analysis of John Donne's poem "The Extasie" written by Nirav Amreliya. It provides background on Donne and the poem, analyzing the literary devices used. The poem depicts a state of rapture and true love as ecstasy, exploring Donne's philosophy of platonic love between souls without physical pleasures. While their souls converse, the lovers' bodies lay motionless. The analysis concludes the poem examines achieving self-realization and divine transcendence by merging with God's wholeness.
The poem analyzes John Donne's work "The Good Morrow". It describes the poet talking about his love, saying that it is like a morning that he wishes "good morrow" to, representing a new birth or dawn of love. He wishes to make this love pure and for his beloved to teach him what love is, giving him a new life just like a new morning or "good morrow". The analysis also notes that in real life we have many daily activities but each morning provides new hope, just as the sunrise represents hope, with its rays nourishing our dreams and hopes as we pursue another dream the next day.
2 john donne - the good morrow and canonicitywaxwingslain
The document provides context for studying the poem "The Good Morrow" by John Donne. It discusses the meaning of canonicity and how some poets become part of the literary canon while others are forgotten. It asks what defines a poet and explores how Donne was viewed differently by Samuel Johnson and T.S. Eliot. The document instructs students to analyze "The Good Morrow" based on their reading and sign up for online submission systems for upcoming essays.
The sun rising by John Donne (figures & metaphysical conceits)Muhammad Naimur Rahman
The document discusses John Donne and the metaphysical school of poetry. It notes that metaphysical poetry uses paradoxical imagery, hyperbole, conceits, and explores connections between emotional and intellectual concepts. Metaphysical poets extract images from various fields of knowledge in their works, with common topics including love, religion, and nature. The document also provides an analysis of Donne's poem "The Sun Rising", noting that it addresses the sun as a human and uses metaphysical conceits to compare the sun to various things through an extended metaphor.
The Sun Rising by Jhon Donne Critical AnalysisMurk Razzaque
Jhon Donne's life greatly impacted his poetry. After marrying his beloved Anna More, the main subject of his poetry became love, exploring both the physical and spiritual aspects. Donne drew from his own experiences of love - at times writing about the company of his beloved, other times describing love as the most precious thing, and at other times discussing the unfaithful nature of women. His poetry reflected the experiences and events occurring in his own life.
The Good-Morrow by John Donne: Analysis. The Good-Morrow, by John Donne, chiefly deals with a love that advances further from lusty love to the spiritual love.The poem makes use of biblical and Catholic writings, indirectly referencing the legend of the Seven Sleepers and Paul the Apostle's description of divine, agapic love – two concepts with which, as a practicing Catholic, Donne would have been familiar.
The poem is an argument by a lover to his beloved not to grieve at their parting. The lover compares parting to death, saying virtuous men die peacefully, so they too can part without tears. The lover argues their souls are one, so parting is an expansion, not a break. Even if their souls are two, they are like the feet of a compass - when one moves, the other leans and heeds the movement, and when it returns, the two are united. Thus the lover persuades his beloved that her firmness will enable his safe return after his journey.
The poem "The Good-Morrow" by John Donne is a love lyric composed of 3 stanzas of 7 lines each with an ABBAACC rhyme scheme. It explores the awakening of love between two souls and their discovery of one another. The speaker questions what they were doing before falling in love, comparing their previous states to children unaware of love. Now united, they find a world in each other and need no other discoveries. In each other's eyes, they see their passions reflected as in a mirror, their love blending them into a unified whole.
Analysis of the Poem :' The Extasie' by John DonneNirav Amreliya
The document is an analysis of John Donne's poem "The Extasie" written by Nirav Amreliya. It provides background on Donne and the poem, analyzing the literary devices used. The poem depicts a state of rapture and true love as ecstasy, exploring Donne's philosophy of platonic love between souls without physical pleasures. While their souls converse, the lovers' bodies lay motionless. The analysis concludes the poem examines achieving self-realization and divine transcendence by merging with God's wholeness.
The poem analyzes John Donne's work "The Good Morrow". It describes the poet talking about his love, saying that it is like a morning that he wishes "good morrow" to, representing a new birth or dawn of love. He wishes to make this love pure and for his beloved to teach him what love is, giving him a new life just like a new morning or "good morrow". The analysis also notes that in real life we have many daily activities but each morning provides new hope, just as the sunrise represents hope, with its rays nourishing our dreams and hopes as we pursue another dream the next day.
2 john donne - the good morrow and canonicitywaxwingslain
The document provides context for studying the poem "The Good Morrow" by John Donne. It discusses the meaning of canonicity and how some poets become part of the literary canon while others are forgotten. It asks what defines a poet and explores how Donne was viewed differently by Samuel Johnson and T.S. Eliot. The document instructs students to analyze "The Good Morrow" based on their reading and sign up for online submission systems for upcoming essays.
The sun rising by John Donne (figures & metaphysical conceits)Muhammad Naimur Rahman
The document discusses John Donne and the metaphysical school of poetry. It notes that metaphysical poetry uses paradoxical imagery, hyperbole, conceits, and explores connections between emotional and intellectual concepts. Metaphysical poets extract images from various fields of knowledge in their works, with common topics including love, religion, and nature. The document also provides an analysis of Donne's poem "The Sun Rising", noting that it addresses the sun as a human and uses metaphysical conceits to compare the sun to various things through an extended metaphor.
The Sun Rising by Jhon Donne Critical AnalysisMurk Razzaque
Jhon Donne's life greatly impacted his poetry. After marrying his beloved Anna More, the main subject of his poetry became love, exploring both the physical and spiritual aspects. Donne drew from his own experiences of love - at times writing about the company of his beloved, other times describing love as the most precious thing, and at other times discussing the unfaithful nature of women. His poetry reflected the experiences and events occurring in his own life.
The Good-Morrow by John Donne: Analysis. The Good-Morrow, by John Donne, chiefly deals with a love that advances further from lusty love to the spiritual love.The poem makes use of biblical and Catholic writings, indirectly referencing the legend of the Seven Sleepers and Paul the Apostle's description of divine, agapic love – two concepts with which, as a practicing Catholic, Donne would have been familiar.
The poem is an argument by a lover to his beloved not to grieve at their parting. The lover compares parting to death, saying virtuous men die peacefully, so they too can part without tears. The lover argues their souls are one, so parting is an expansion, not a break. Even if their souls are two, they are like the feet of a compass - when one moves, the other leans and heeds the movement, and when it returns, the two are united. Thus the lover persuades his beloved that her firmness will enable his safe return after his journey.
The poem "The Sun Rising" by John Donne describes a speaker laying in bed with his lover after a night of passion. He rebukes the rising sun for disturbing them, calling it a "busy old fool". The speaker says love is above the influence of time and seasons. He claims his lover eclipses the sun's beams and that the treasures of the world are with him in bed. The speaker asserts that his lover is every country and he is every king, and nothing else is real compared to their love. He tells the sun it can do its job of keeping the world warm by shining on the couple in bed, as their bedroom now contains all that matters.
This document is an oral presentation analyzing how John Donne uses his metaphysical style of poetry to convey both pragmatic and platonic aspects of love. It discusses Donne's use of conceits, exaggerated language, and logical arguments. The presentation analyzes Donne's poem "A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning" as an example, exploring how it depicts the speaker's grief over the death of his wife through complex metaphors and references history and exploration. It ultimately argues that Donne skillfully portrayed both physical and spiritual dimensions of love through his innovative metaphysical poetic style.
This document summarizes John Donne's metaphysical poem "The Flea" and provides context about metaphysical poetry and Donne's life and works. It discusses how Donne uses the metaphor of a flea biting two lovers to represent their mingling blood as a metaphor for sex. The poem sees the speaker try to convince his lover to be intimate by arguing their mingling in the flea is innocent, so intimacy would be too. It explains how Donne hints at sexuality through images while avoiding explicit references. The document provides background on Donne as a pioneer of metaphysical poetry, known for its intellectualism, strange imaginings, and paradoxes. It concludes by thanking the reader.
John Donne's 1611 poem "Sweetest Love I Do Not Goe" was written to convince his wife Ann not to fear his leaving on a journey. In the poem, Donne argues that their separation will prepare her for his potential death. He compares himself to the sun which also leaves but returns, noting that as a human he possesses love that gives him motivation. Donne acknowledges the uncertainties of life but urges his wife to pretend they are sleeping apart to feel comforted by his presence. The poem ultimately ends by stating those who keep each other alive in their hearts will never truly part.
The poem personifies death as a powerful figure that is eternal and has no creator. Death explains that it is inescapable and bound to all things. While humans foolishly fear death, it reminds the reader that death is part of life and flow within all. The poem suggests that if people spend their lives fearing and trying to avoid death, they will not truly live and death will still catch up to them in the end.
The Invention Of Seasons In Selected Poems By Haji Salleh And Thomas HardyMehdi Hassanian esfahani
This document provides an abstract and analysis of Muhammad Haji Salleh's poem "England in the Spring" and compares it to Thomas Hardy's poem "If It's Ever Spring Again." It summarizes Haji Salleh's use of winter and spring imagery to depict modern London as a wasteland. It also analyzes Hardy's use of spring and summer to describe lost love. Both poems express melancholy and loss, though they differ in setting and theme. The analysis finds similarities in how the poets employ seasonal imagery and metaphor to deepen their intended moods and messages.
John Donne (1572-1631) was an English poet and considered the founder of Metaphysical poets. He wrote love poetry, religious poetry, and satires. His poem "Sweetest Love I Do Not Go" was written in 1611 for his wife Ann Moore to ease her worries about his leaving on a journey. Through the use of metaphors and hyperbole comparing himself to the sun, Donne expresses his enduring love for his wife and urges her not to worry, as their love will sustain them even when apart. He ends by telling her to pretend they are sleeping together to rid herself of fears about their separation.
John Donne was a 17th century English poet known as one of the founders of the Metaphysical Poets. He was born Catholic but later converted to Anglicanism. His poem "Lovers' Infiniteness" explores the paradox of whether true love can be fully possessed or if it is infinite. The poem uses metaphysical conceits and explores the meanings of "having all" of a lover through three stanzas with an ABABCDCDEBB rhyme scheme. It leaves unresolved whether love or the lovers themselves are infinite.
The document is a paper about John Donne and metaphysical poetry. It provides biographical details about Donne, such as his birthplace of London, England, occupation as a poet and priest, and genres including satire, love poetry, and elegy. The paper also lists some of Donne's most famous poems and discusses metaphysical poetry and Donne's mastery of metaphysical conceits.
This document provides biographical information about John Donne and summarizes his treatment of love in poetry. It discusses three main strands: 1) A cynical, anti-woman attitude 2) Poems about happy married life and mutual love 3) Regarding the supremacy of love from a philosophical perspective. Examples are provided for each strand, such as "Go and Catch a Falling Star" showing contempt for women, "The Anniversary" praising conjugal love, and "The Good Morrow" elevating spiritual love above physical.
The document summarizes several short stories by Japanese author Ryunosuke Akutagawa. It discusses his story "Kesa and Morito" which portrays the conflicting inner monologues of two lovers, one of whom must die. It also mentions his story "In a Grove" about conflicting testimonies in a rape-murder case, which inspired the film Rashomon. Finally, it summarizes "The Dragon" about a priest who fabricates a prophecy and then questions what faith means as people start to believe in it.
The document is a graduation thesis from Hua Yin Institute of Technology. It discusses Emily Dickinson's love poems and analyzes the theme of love in three aspects: expecting the arrival of love and probable marriage, chance meetings and inevitable separation, and raising love to a higher level. The thesis will analyze Dickinson's love poems to help readers better understand the poet and her exploration of love in her works.
Coleridge view on "The Nature and Function of Poem".Vadher Ankita
Coleridge viewed the nature and function of a poem. According to Coleridge, a poem should be a verbal expression of activity that is pleasurable for the reader. The reader should be carried forward by the pleasurable activity of the mind excited by the attractions of the journey itself, not just by curiosity or the desire to reach the end. Additionally, Coleridge saw prose as having the immediate purpose of conveying truth, with all parts mutually supporting each other and harmonizing with the metric arrangement.
This document provides an overview and analysis of Virginia Woolf's 1927 novel To the Lighthouse. It discusses how the novel uses stream of consciousness as a narrative device to explore the characters' inner thoughts and experiences. It also analyzes Woolf's manipulation of time in the novel and how she transitions between characters' consciousnesses. The document examines how the novel addresses themes of life, death, and loss through its semi-autobiographical exploration of Woolf's issues with her deceased parents.
Coleridge was one of the greatest English poet-critics. He produced works of the highest order but was incapable of sustained, persistent labor. He is known for his works Biographia Literaria and Lectures on Shakespeare and Other Poets. Coleridge discussed themes of poetry, poetic diction, the language of rustics versus townsmen, natural versus supernatural poetry, and his final definition of a poem as proposing pleasure rather than truth through parts that provide distinct gratification forming a whole compatible delight. He focused on the creative process over analysis and established philosophical principles for literary criticism.
Julian barnes's the only story a postmodern absurdist critiqueRiddhi Bhatt
The document provides an analysis of Julian Barnes's novel "The Only Story" as a postmodern absurdist critique. It discusses how the novel explores themes of absurdity and meaninglessness in the lives of the main characters Paul and Susan. Through their relationship and its breakdown, Barnes examines what it means to find love and purpose in a postmodern society. The document also reviews relevant literary theories of absurdism from authors like Albert Camus and Thomas Nagel and how they relate to Barnes's novel.
Narrative Pattern in Julian Barnes's 'The Only Story'Dilip Barad
Structured along Classical Line
Narrative Trope
Unreliable Narrator – Paul Roberts
Narration drifts from first person to second and third person
Authorial Comments - Philosophical Broodings
The poem "Requiem" by Robert Louis Stevenson expresses acceptance of mortality. It describes being laid to rest under the stars with a willing spirit. The epitaph on Stevenson's own gravestone takes its final three lines from this poem - "Here he lies where he long'd to be; / Home is the sailor, home from the sea, / And the hunter home from the hill." The poem conveys themes of embracing life's journey and coming to terms with life's end.
The document provides an analysis of John Donne's metaphysical poem "Batter My Heart" through a S.E.A (Statement, Evidence, Analysis) framework. Key points discussed include the violent imagery and imperative tone used to express the speaker's inner desperation and struggle to let God into his life. Various literary devices are examined such as syntax, lexis, imagery, phonology and an extended metaphor portraying God as a carpenter, military man and rapist to overwhelm the speaker. The analysis highlights how these techniques convey the complex nature of the speaker's argument and feelings of uncertainty and passion towards his decision and religion.
The document provides an analysis of William Blake's poem "Earth's Answer". It summarizes that the poem is narrated by the Earth, which represents women, and portrays men as oppressors who have imprisoned the Earth. Each stanza follows an ABBA rhyme scheme. The repetition of question marks in one stanza engages the reader. Personification of the Earth makes her take on human characteristics like hair and aging. Key themes are the suffering of both nature and humanity due to negative emotions like jealousy and selfishness. Terms like "prison'd" and "chain'd" reflect the Earth's view of being confined by God's control and darkness representing evil.
This document provides the agenda for an EWRT 1C class on feminist criticism. It will discuss feminist criticism as an approach, Andrew Marvell's poem "To His Coy Mistress," and include a group activity applying feminist criticism to analyze the poem. The document also includes background on Andrew Marvell, the full text of the poem, discussion questions about the poem from a feminist perspective, and an assignment on psychoanalytic criticism.
Sylvia Plath Literary Devices
Literary Devices In Medea
Literary Devices In Macbeth
Literary Devices In Poetry
Literary Devices In Literature
Literary Devices
Examples Of Literary Devices
The poem "The Sun Rising" by John Donne describes a speaker laying in bed with his lover after a night of passion. He rebukes the rising sun for disturbing them, calling it a "busy old fool". The speaker says love is above the influence of time and seasons. He claims his lover eclipses the sun's beams and that the treasures of the world are with him in bed. The speaker asserts that his lover is every country and he is every king, and nothing else is real compared to their love. He tells the sun it can do its job of keeping the world warm by shining on the couple in bed, as their bedroom now contains all that matters.
This document is an oral presentation analyzing how John Donne uses his metaphysical style of poetry to convey both pragmatic and platonic aspects of love. It discusses Donne's use of conceits, exaggerated language, and logical arguments. The presentation analyzes Donne's poem "A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning" as an example, exploring how it depicts the speaker's grief over the death of his wife through complex metaphors and references history and exploration. It ultimately argues that Donne skillfully portrayed both physical and spiritual dimensions of love through his innovative metaphysical poetic style.
This document summarizes John Donne's metaphysical poem "The Flea" and provides context about metaphysical poetry and Donne's life and works. It discusses how Donne uses the metaphor of a flea biting two lovers to represent their mingling blood as a metaphor for sex. The poem sees the speaker try to convince his lover to be intimate by arguing their mingling in the flea is innocent, so intimacy would be too. It explains how Donne hints at sexuality through images while avoiding explicit references. The document provides background on Donne as a pioneer of metaphysical poetry, known for its intellectualism, strange imaginings, and paradoxes. It concludes by thanking the reader.
John Donne's 1611 poem "Sweetest Love I Do Not Goe" was written to convince his wife Ann not to fear his leaving on a journey. In the poem, Donne argues that their separation will prepare her for his potential death. He compares himself to the sun which also leaves but returns, noting that as a human he possesses love that gives him motivation. Donne acknowledges the uncertainties of life but urges his wife to pretend they are sleeping apart to feel comforted by his presence. The poem ultimately ends by stating those who keep each other alive in their hearts will never truly part.
The poem personifies death as a powerful figure that is eternal and has no creator. Death explains that it is inescapable and bound to all things. While humans foolishly fear death, it reminds the reader that death is part of life and flow within all. The poem suggests that if people spend their lives fearing and trying to avoid death, they will not truly live and death will still catch up to them in the end.
The Invention Of Seasons In Selected Poems By Haji Salleh And Thomas HardyMehdi Hassanian esfahani
This document provides an abstract and analysis of Muhammad Haji Salleh's poem "England in the Spring" and compares it to Thomas Hardy's poem "If It's Ever Spring Again." It summarizes Haji Salleh's use of winter and spring imagery to depict modern London as a wasteland. It also analyzes Hardy's use of spring and summer to describe lost love. Both poems express melancholy and loss, though they differ in setting and theme. The analysis finds similarities in how the poets employ seasonal imagery and metaphor to deepen their intended moods and messages.
John Donne (1572-1631) was an English poet and considered the founder of Metaphysical poets. He wrote love poetry, religious poetry, and satires. His poem "Sweetest Love I Do Not Go" was written in 1611 for his wife Ann Moore to ease her worries about his leaving on a journey. Through the use of metaphors and hyperbole comparing himself to the sun, Donne expresses his enduring love for his wife and urges her not to worry, as their love will sustain them even when apart. He ends by telling her to pretend they are sleeping together to rid herself of fears about their separation.
John Donne was a 17th century English poet known as one of the founders of the Metaphysical Poets. He was born Catholic but later converted to Anglicanism. His poem "Lovers' Infiniteness" explores the paradox of whether true love can be fully possessed or if it is infinite. The poem uses metaphysical conceits and explores the meanings of "having all" of a lover through three stanzas with an ABABCDCDEBB rhyme scheme. It leaves unresolved whether love or the lovers themselves are infinite.
The document is a paper about John Donne and metaphysical poetry. It provides biographical details about Donne, such as his birthplace of London, England, occupation as a poet and priest, and genres including satire, love poetry, and elegy. The paper also lists some of Donne's most famous poems and discusses metaphysical poetry and Donne's mastery of metaphysical conceits.
This document provides biographical information about John Donne and summarizes his treatment of love in poetry. It discusses three main strands: 1) A cynical, anti-woman attitude 2) Poems about happy married life and mutual love 3) Regarding the supremacy of love from a philosophical perspective. Examples are provided for each strand, such as "Go and Catch a Falling Star" showing contempt for women, "The Anniversary" praising conjugal love, and "The Good Morrow" elevating spiritual love above physical.
The document summarizes several short stories by Japanese author Ryunosuke Akutagawa. It discusses his story "Kesa and Morito" which portrays the conflicting inner monologues of two lovers, one of whom must die. It also mentions his story "In a Grove" about conflicting testimonies in a rape-murder case, which inspired the film Rashomon. Finally, it summarizes "The Dragon" about a priest who fabricates a prophecy and then questions what faith means as people start to believe in it.
The document is a graduation thesis from Hua Yin Institute of Technology. It discusses Emily Dickinson's love poems and analyzes the theme of love in three aspects: expecting the arrival of love and probable marriage, chance meetings and inevitable separation, and raising love to a higher level. The thesis will analyze Dickinson's love poems to help readers better understand the poet and her exploration of love in her works.
Coleridge view on "The Nature and Function of Poem".Vadher Ankita
Coleridge viewed the nature and function of a poem. According to Coleridge, a poem should be a verbal expression of activity that is pleasurable for the reader. The reader should be carried forward by the pleasurable activity of the mind excited by the attractions of the journey itself, not just by curiosity or the desire to reach the end. Additionally, Coleridge saw prose as having the immediate purpose of conveying truth, with all parts mutually supporting each other and harmonizing with the metric arrangement.
This document provides an overview and analysis of Virginia Woolf's 1927 novel To the Lighthouse. It discusses how the novel uses stream of consciousness as a narrative device to explore the characters' inner thoughts and experiences. It also analyzes Woolf's manipulation of time in the novel and how she transitions between characters' consciousnesses. The document examines how the novel addresses themes of life, death, and loss through its semi-autobiographical exploration of Woolf's issues with her deceased parents.
Coleridge was one of the greatest English poet-critics. He produced works of the highest order but was incapable of sustained, persistent labor. He is known for his works Biographia Literaria and Lectures on Shakespeare and Other Poets. Coleridge discussed themes of poetry, poetic diction, the language of rustics versus townsmen, natural versus supernatural poetry, and his final definition of a poem as proposing pleasure rather than truth through parts that provide distinct gratification forming a whole compatible delight. He focused on the creative process over analysis and established philosophical principles for literary criticism.
Julian barnes's the only story a postmodern absurdist critiqueRiddhi Bhatt
The document provides an analysis of Julian Barnes's novel "The Only Story" as a postmodern absurdist critique. It discusses how the novel explores themes of absurdity and meaninglessness in the lives of the main characters Paul and Susan. Through their relationship and its breakdown, Barnes examines what it means to find love and purpose in a postmodern society. The document also reviews relevant literary theories of absurdism from authors like Albert Camus and Thomas Nagel and how they relate to Barnes's novel.
Narrative Pattern in Julian Barnes's 'The Only Story'Dilip Barad
Structured along Classical Line
Narrative Trope
Unreliable Narrator – Paul Roberts
Narration drifts from first person to second and third person
Authorial Comments - Philosophical Broodings
The poem "Requiem" by Robert Louis Stevenson expresses acceptance of mortality. It describes being laid to rest under the stars with a willing spirit. The epitaph on Stevenson's own gravestone takes its final three lines from this poem - "Here he lies where he long'd to be; / Home is the sailor, home from the sea, / And the hunter home from the hill." The poem conveys themes of embracing life's journey and coming to terms with life's end.
The document provides an analysis of John Donne's metaphysical poem "Batter My Heart" through a S.E.A (Statement, Evidence, Analysis) framework. Key points discussed include the violent imagery and imperative tone used to express the speaker's inner desperation and struggle to let God into his life. Various literary devices are examined such as syntax, lexis, imagery, phonology and an extended metaphor portraying God as a carpenter, military man and rapist to overwhelm the speaker. The analysis highlights how these techniques convey the complex nature of the speaker's argument and feelings of uncertainty and passion towards his decision and religion.
The document provides an analysis of William Blake's poem "Earth's Answer". It summarizes that the poem is narrated by the Earth, which represents women, and portrays men as oppressors who have imprisoned the Earth. Each stanza follows an ABBA rhyme scheme. The repetition of question marks in one stanza engages the reader. Personification of the Earth makes her take on human characteristics like hair and aging. Key themes are the suffering of both nature and humanity due to negative emotions like jealousy and selfishness. Terms like "prison'd" and "chain'd" reflect the Earth's view of being confined by God's control and darkness representing evil.
This document provides the agenda for an EWRT 1C class on feminist criticism. It will discuss feminist criticism as an approach, Andrew Marvell's poem "To His Coy Mistress," and include a group activity applying feminist criticism to analyze the poem. The document also includes background on Andrew Marvell, the full text of the poem, discussion questions about the poem from a feminist perspective, and an assignment on psychoanalytic criticism.
Sylvia Plath Literary Devices
Literary Devices In Medea
Literary Devices In Macbeth
Literary Devices In Poetry
Literary Devices In Literature
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Examples Of Literary Devices
The document discusses a class on feminist criticism and Andrew Marvell's poem "To His Coy Mistress." It includes an agenda for the class that analyzes the poem using feminist criticism. It provides background on Andrew Marvell and discusses questions feminist critics ask about literary texts, such as how women are portrayed and if the work reinforces patriarchal ideology. It also includes the full text of Marvell's poem and discussion questions about analyzing it from a feminist perspective.
“What is it that agitates you, my dear Victor? What is it you fear?”: [* SELF...Rituparna Ray Chaudhuri
“The monster now becomes more vengeful. He murders Victor’s friend Henry Clerval and his wife Elizabeth on the night of her wedding to Victor, and Victor sets out in pursuit of the friend across the icy Arctic regions. The monster is always ahead of him, leaving tell tale marks behind and tantalizing his creator. Victor meets with his death in the pursuit of the monster he had created with a noble objective.”
The document discusses key elements of Romanticism including its emergence as a reaction against rationalism, an appreciation of nature and the individual, and the use of techniques like omniscient narration and symbolism in works by early American Romantic authors such as Washington Irving. It also examines characteristics of Romantic literature like the use of allusions, irony, and restrictive clauses to add meaning and definition.
Theodore Dalrymple How—and How Not—to Love Mankind A.docxsusannr
Theodore Dalrymple
How—and How Not—to Love Mankind
Almost every intellectual claims to have the welfare of humanity, and particularly the
welfare of the poor, at heart: but since no mass murder takes place without its
perpetrators alleging that they are acting for the good of mankind, philanthropic
sentiment can plainly take a multiplicity of forms.
Summer 2001
Almost every intellectual claims to have the welfare of humanity, and particularly the
welfare of the poor, at heart: but since no mass murder takes place without its
perpetrators alleging that they are acting for the good of mankind, philanthropic
sentiment can plainly take a multiplicity of forms.
Two great European writers of the nineteenth century, Ivan Turgenev and Karl Marx,
illustrate this diversity with vivid clarity. Both were born in 1818 and died in 1883, and
their lives paralleled each other almost preternaturally in many other respects as well.
They nevertheless came to view human life and suffering in very different, indeed
irreconcilable, ways—through different ends of the telescope, as it were. Turgenev saw
human beings as individuals always endowed with consciousness, character, feelings,
and moral strengths and weaknesses; Marx saw them always as snowflakes in an
avalanche, as instances of general forces, as not yet fully human because utterly
conditioned by their circumstances. Where Turgenev saw men, Marx saw classes of men;
where Turgenev saw people, Marx saw the People. These two ways of looking at the
world persist into our own time and profoundly affect, for better or for worse, the
solutions we propose to our social problems.
The resemblances between the careers of these men begin with their attendance at Berlin
University at overlapping times, where both were deeply affected—even intoxicated—by
the prevailing Hegelianism. As a result, both considered careers as university teachers of
philosophy, but neither ever held a university post. They had many acquaintances in
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common in Berlin, including Mikhail Bakunin, the Russian aristocrat who later became a
revolutionary anarchist, the philosopher Bruno Bauer, and the radical poet Georg
Herwegh. They shared a carelessness with money, perhaps because they were both born
into easy circumstances and therefore assumed that money would never be a problem.
Both started their writing careers as romantic poets, though more of Turgenev’s poetry
than Marx’s was published.
Their literary influences and tastes were similar. Each read widely in the Greek and Latin
classics; each could quote Shakespeare in the original. Both learned Spanish in order to
read Calderón. (Turgenev, of course, also learned it to speak the native language of the
great, but unsatisfactory, love of his life, the famous prima donna Pauline Viardot.) The
two men were in Brussels at the outbreak of the 1848 revolution against the July
monarch.
Theodore Dalrymple How—and How Not—to Love Mankind A.docxsharondabriggs
Theodore Dalrymple
How—and How Not—to Love Mankind
Almost every intellectual claims to have the welfare of humanity, and particularly the
welfare of the poor, at heart: but since no mass murder takes place without its
perpetrators alleging that they are acting for the good of mankind, philanthropic
sentiment can plainly take a multiplicity of forms.
Summer 2001
Almost every intellectual claims to have the welfare of humanity, and particularly the
welfare of the poor, at heart: but since no mass murder takes place without its
perpetrators alleging that they are acting for the good of mankind, philanthropic
sentiment can plainly take a multiplicity of forms.
Two great European writers of the nineteenth century, Ivan Turgenev and Karl Marx,
illustrate this diversity with vivid clarity. Both were born in 1818 and died in 1883, and
their lives paralleled each other almost preternaturally in many other respects as well.
They nevertheless came to view human life and suffering in very different, indeed
irreconcilable, ways—through different ends of the telescope, as it were. Turgenev saw
human beings as individuals always endowed with consciousness, character, feelings,
and moral strengths and weaknesses; Marx saw them always as snowflakes in an
avalanche, as instances of general forces, as not yet fully human because utterly
conditioned by their circumstances. Where Turgenev saw men, Marx saw classes of men;
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classics; each could quote Shakespeare in the original. Both learned Spanish in order to
read Calderón. (Turgenev, of course, also learned it to speak the native language of the
great, but unsatisfactory, love of his life, the famous prima donna Pauline Viardot.) The
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Romantic literature : How Monster get knowledge from three books
1. M. K. Bhavanagar University
Department of English
sem : 2
Name : Ravina P. Parmar
Roll no. : 18
Paper Name : Romantic Literature
Email address : ravinaparmar827@gmail.com
Batch : (2019- 2021)
Date : 24 February 2020
Enrollment No. : 2069108420200031
Topic : How Monster get knowledge from three books
Submitted To : Department of English (MKBU)
2. How Monster get
knowledge :
- He found a leathern
portmanteau
containing several
articles of dress and
some books.
- Language : Which he
acquired at the
cottage.
3. The Sorrows of Young
Werther Paradise Lost Plutarch's lives
Monster reads three books
4. Why she selects these three books
(Possible Reasons)
✍ To make an interesting plot.
✍ Victor’s tragic end.
(Monster’s knowledge became
Tragedy for him.)
✍ She portrays Monster as evil.
✍ Turnining point of the novel.
✍ Evilness of Monster
5. ✍ How books affect his mind and
behavior :
“ I can hardly describe to you
the effect of these books. They
produced in me an infinity of new
images and feelings, that sometimes
raised me to ecstasy, but more
frequently sunk me into the lowest
dejection “. - Monster
👉 Books are disturbing his mind, with
argument.
6. Paradise Lost
● He himself said that : “ Paradise Lost excited different and
far deeper emotions.
● He start hating “ Hateful day when I received life”
● " When I viewed the bliss of my protectors, the bitter fall of
envy rose within me”.
● “ But Where was mine ? He had abandoned me, and in the
bitterness of my heart I cursed him ”
● Camapre himself with Satan and Adam.
● He thoughts about companion like Eve.
7. Plutarch's lives :
● “This book developed new and mightier scenes of action. I
read of men concerned in public affairs, governing or
massacring their species”
● Got high thoughts.
● He gets a knowledge of kingdoms, wide extents of country,
mighty rivers, and boundless seas.
● He was of course led to admire peaceable lawgivers, Numa, Solon,
and Lycurgus, in preference to Romulus and Theseus.
8. The Sorrows of Werther :
Elizabeth
Charlotte
Victor
Monster
Albert
Werther
Both truly love
Don't like each other
Charlotte and
Monster die with
broken heart
9. ● This Novel is written by Goethe in German language and
published in 1774 ( in English 1779 ), presented as a
collection of letters written by Werther.
●
● “ What did this mean? Who was I? What was I? Where did I come
from? What was my destination? These questions continually
recurred ”
●
● But I thought Werter himself a more
divine being than I had ever beheld
or imagined;
10. Reference :
● Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft. Frankenstein. London:
Hughes,Harding,Mavor and Jones, 1818.