Paper-5 1. Give a critical appreciation of following poem: Admit impediments. Love is not love Which alters when it alteration finds‚ Or bends with the remover to remove: O no; it is an ever-fixed mark‚ That looks on tempests‚ and is never shaken; It is the star to every wandering bark‚ Whose worth’s unknown‚ although his height be taken. 2. Show your acquaintance on one of the following: a. Marxism b. Psycho-Analytical theory c. feminist criticism d. post colonialism 3. Write a brief
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G. M. Hopkins’s "Pied Beauty" In "Pied Beauty" we see a striking dualism in which the nature of beings is rendered in all that is unique‚ particular and individual. All multiplicity and diversity are the gift of God in the creation of being‚ emanating from Himself. Gerard Manley Hopkins gives praises to God for the natural beauty of the world‚ the variety of it and how everything fits together. God symbolizes what is constant
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In this essay‚ I am going to explore and analyze how Gerard Manley Hopkins marries the two themes of religion and nature together in his poem‚ “Pied Beauty”‚ and how these ideas are presented in terms of language‚ form‚ and structure. Firstly‚ Hopkins presents these two themes through peaceful imagery created by various aspects in the poem. For example‚ this is evident in “Landscape plotted and pieced – fold‚ fallow and plough”. The word choices in this line‚ include “plotted”‚ “pieced” and “plough”
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Poetry Analysis of ’Pied Beauty’ and ’Composed Upon Wesminster Bridge’ Pied Beauty by Gerald Manley Hopkins and the Sonnet: Composed Upon Westminster Bridge by William Wordsworth‚ both show the beauty of life and the world around us. The only difference is that the petrarchan Sonnet written by Wordsworth is thanking God for the beauty of nature’s landscapes and talking about the beautiful morning in London during the industrial revolution. The reduced version of a petrarchan Sonnet by Hopkins
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Topic: Refer to “A Different History” and “Pied Beauty” (1877). Discuss the way in which the cultures of the poets and the dominant cultures of their eras‚ affect the reader’s successful understanding of the above poems. Both the poems‚ “Pied Beauty” and “A Different History” were written within a similar time period and each poem conveys the poets’ views on culture and religion at the time. Nature is integrated in the poems and linked to religion while the poem itself challenges/questions.
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Critical Appreciation This particular speech has become more famous than most of Shakespeare’s soliloquies and is quoted on a daily basis. The meaning of the soliloquy is quite simple. Hamlet is on the verge of committing suicide and starts by questioning whether or not it is better to live or die. When Hamlet utters the pained question‚ “To be‚ or not to be: that is the question: / Whether ‘tis nobler in the mind to suffer / The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune / Or to take arms against
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Critical appreciation ‘One art’ Elizabeth Bishop’s six-stanza villanelle ‘one art’ is a misleading poem dealing with the struggle of mastering the issue of loss and how to interpret it. Through the use of a rather casual tone and understatement‚ as well as crescendo stanzas‚ Bishop succeeds to mislead the reader and bring the dramatic last stanza as an unexpected outcome‚ quite in contrast with the rest of the poem. My analysis will try to show how through the use of language‚ tone and poetic devices
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“Pied Beauty” points to Gerard Manley Hopkins’ power of sensuous appreciation of the beauty of the things around‚ his poetic concentration‚ compassion and above all‚ his unquestioning faith in God. All nature is good; “Because the Holy Ghost over the bent World broods with worm breast and with oh! Bright wings”. He believes that the created beauty is the reflections of God’s spirit‚ and the beauty of nature
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CRITICAL APPRECIATION OF ELIOT’S WASTELAND T.S.Eliot was born in the United States in 1888 and was educated there and in France before settling down in England and at length adopting British citizenship. He published his first poems Prufrock and other Observations in 1917 and all his work is strongly individual and creatively personal. With The Wasteland(1922) he established the reputation which made him the leading living poet of the English speaking world‚ though his output for some years was extremely
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John Keats‚ a poet of the romantic era‚ composed this poem in the spring of 1819. Being a poet of the Romantic era‚ he was a Nature lover‚ but instead of looking at Nature as a guide or teacher‚ he was in pursuit of beauty within Nature. The romantic poets emphasized on emotions‚ they believed in the power of imagination and experimented with new ideas and concepts. Keats is generally considered the most tragic of the Romantic poets as he was faced by a series of sad experiences in his life. The
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