lit·er·a·ture (ltr--chr‚ -chr) noun. 1. The body of written works of a language‚ period‚ or culture. 2. Imaginative or creative writing‚ especially of recognized artistic value:"Literature must be an analysis of experience and a synthesis of the findings into a unity" (Rebecca West). 3. The art or occupation of a literary writer. 4. The body of written work produced by scholars or researchers in a given field:medical literature. 5. Printed material: collected all the available literature on
Premium Writing Literature Fiction
* History of Neo-Classical Age:- 1. The Age of Neo-Classical in English Literature. 2. Neo-Classical can be divided into three parts. 3. Characteristic of the Neo-Classical Age. 4. Poetry. 5. Court Poets. 6. Satiric Poets. 7. Some poets of Neo-classical Age‚ -Mathew Prior -Alexander Pope -James Thomson -Edward Young -William Collins -Thomas Gray -Robert Burns -John Dryden
Premium Poetry
The Wife’s Lament is a poem that is well known as an Anglo Saxon elegy‚ although to this day‚ it is still challenged by some scholars to be‚ in fact‚ a riddle. The Wife’s Lament is an elegy that tells the story of a female narrator mourning for her husband‚ and she is reflecting on her great loss. The poem shares the same characteristics with those of an elegy‚ which include the passing of time‚ pain‚ exile‚ separation and longing. This Anglo Saxon poem has also been characterized as a riddle‚ where
Premium Old English Poetic form Anglo-Saxons
Theater of the Absurd Theater of the Absurd came about as a reaction to World War II. It took the basis of existential philosophy and combined it with dramatic elements to create a style of theatre which presented a world which can not be logically explained‚ life is in one word‚ ABSURD! Needless to say‚ this genre of theatre took quite some time to catch on because it used techniques that seemed to be illogical to the theatre world. The plots often deviated from the more traditional episodic
Premium Existentialism Poetry Theatre of the Absurd
relevance/meaning of the two elegy poems The Wanderer and The Seafarer it is especially important to take note of the context in which they were written. For example‚ if a literal approach were utilized when analyzing these two poems it would have a considerably negative impact on the perceived intrinsic meaning conveyed by the text. It is thus crucial not only to consider the mental attitudes of the authors/orators but also the time period and society within which these elegies were written. In the case
Premium God Maslow's hierarchy of needs
As a poet Arnold is generally admitted to rank among the Victorians next after Tennyson and Browning. The criticism‚ partly true‚ that he was not designed by Nature to be a poet but made himself one by hard work rests on his intensely‚ and at the outset coldly‚ intellectual and moral temperament. He himself‚ in modified Puritan spirit‚ defined poetry as a criticism of life; his mind was philosophic; and in his own verse‚ inspired by Greek poetry‚ by Goethe and Wordsworth‚ he realized his definition
Premium Poetry
between a playwright whom by the use of his powerful pen became famous and rich‚ with a literary man who wrote the greatest English epic‚ is not true and justifiable. My purpose of writing this research paper is to criticize his world-famous elegy – Lycidas. Milton after two years living in Horton‚ in the November 1637 when his poetic exercises and studies were finished‚ took a trip to Italia and wrote Lycidas to elegize the death of his friend “Edward King” _ four years younger than Milton
Premium Poetry John Milton
’Lycidas’ is a poem in the form of a pastoral elegy written in 1637 to mourn the accidental death of Milton’s friend Edward King. The theme of the elegy is mournful or sadly reflective. Though lyrical‚ it is not spontaneous‚ and is often the result of deliberate poetic art. The elegy is a conscious work of art‚ and not a spontaneous expression of sorrow. The elegiac poet engages himself in discursive reflections. Death‚ the primary theme of most elegies‚ is a vast evocative theme. Death can be‚ and
Premium Poetry Philosophy Psychology
Lycidas is a popular‚ well-known poem‚ which was written in the early 1630s by John Milton. The poem is written in the style of pastoral elegy and is dedicated to Edward King a friend of John Milton who drowned out at sea. About 100 years after the poem had already been well known‚ Samuel Johnson responded forcefully by writing a critique that has also become well renowned. Samuel Johnson‚ who wrote the English Dictionary‚ questions the worth of Lycidas. According to Johnson‚ poetry is an art form
Premium Poetry Romanticism Sonnet
Monologues of Browning complex evolution of feeling in the long elegy and the meditative ode. The process of observation‚ thought‚ memory and feelings may be organised in a variety of ways in different lyrical expressions. Lyric is a poem in which the poet writes about his thoughts and feelings. The basic type is the song‚ but we use the term to cover all poems that present the poet’s immediate response to life‚ including sonnets odes and elegies. Lyric poem deals with a range of experiences such as love
Free Poetry Poetic form Sonnet