on several generations. It moulds life according to the times. Violence can only suppress the beliefs of the people. The pen stands for positive and constructive efforts‚ while the sword signifies negative postures and destruction all around. The sword can force them into submission but cannot propagate and idea. Pen can solve many complex issues. The sword can only destroy. Wars have no significance impact on the development of a nation. Writers‚ thinkers and artists created the
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William Wordsworth: A Romantic Hypocrite Wordsworth in his “Prelude” has presented a timeless piece of art‚ transfixed for eternities to come. He has made his words immortal by his imagination that gives the truth‚ which according to Keats is beauty. He equates beauty and truth through his imagination. This ode is a purely aesthetic rendition to signify the supremacy and impermanence of art over nature. Through his imagination‚ he not only enlivens the urn but makes it immortal through his
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Bysshe Shelley ( /ˈpɜrsi ˈbɪʃ ˈʃɛli/;[2] 4 August 1792 – 8 July 1822) was one of the major English Romantic poets and is critically regarded as among the finest lyric poets in the English language. Shelley was famous for his association with John Keats and Lord Byron. The novelist Mary Shelley was his second wife. He is most famous for such classic anthology verse works as Ozymandias‚ Ode to the West Wind‚ To a Skylark‚ Music‚ When Soft Voices Die‚ The Cloud and The Masque of Anarchy‚ which are
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The poetry of earth is never dead: When all the birds are faint with hot sun‚ And hide in the cooling trees‚ a voice will run From hedge to hedge about a new-mown mead; That is the grasshopper’s – he takes the lead In summer luxury‚ - he has never done With his delights; for when tired out with fun He rests at ease beneath some pleasant weed. The poetry of earth is ceasing never: On a lone winter evening‚ when the frost Has wrought a silence‚ from the stove there shrills The cricket’s
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cases a digitalized (scanned) copy or e-lit will often do the job. A piece of literature which one does not get in hard copy can be obtained by him in soft copy in digital hyper textual world; and he may express his thrilled and ecstatic pleasure as Keats did in a different context: Then felt I like some watcher of the skies when a new planet swims into his ken; or like stout Cortez when with eagle eyes He star’d at the pacific… So Digital literature increased interactivity‚ connectivity and
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speech in which a term or phrase is applied to something to which it is not literally applicable in order to suggest a resemblance. “Till I heard Chapman speak out loud and bold: Then felt I like some watcher of the skies.” John Keats‚ “ On First Looking into Chapman’s Homer” 6. Oxymoron- a figure of speech by which a locution produces an incongruous‚ seemingly self-contradictory effect. “Ride ten thousand days and nights Till Age snow white hairs on thee”
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The Self as Mind: Vision and Identity in Wordsworth‚ Coleridge‚ and Keats. Oxford: Oxford University Press‚ 1986. "Recollecting Spontaneous Overflows: Romantic Passions‚ the Sublime‚ and Mesmerism‚" Romantic Circles Praxis Series‚ 2001. http://www.rc.umd.educ/praxis/passions/rzepka/rzp.html 2001. Accessed on February 26 2003. Searle‚ John. The Rediscovery of the Mind. Cambridge: The MIT Press‚ 1992. Swann‚ Joseph‚ ’Shelley‚ Keats and Coleridge: The Romantics as Deconstructionists ’‚ Romantic Visions
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English Draft – William Holbrook Not even the Romantics agreed on a definition of Romanticism. Were the six great figures of Romanticism; Blake‚ Wordsworth‚ Coleridge‚ Shelley‚ Byron‚ and Keats‚ to be put in a room together they would probably have falling outs - so different were they philosophically‚ personally‚ and artistically. Yet there is a common element‚ a binding element – and one expressed most clearly in the poetry of William Wordsworth. What all the Romantics shared was a reaction
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Remains of the Day Written Assignment A conversation between Stevens and Mr. Graham on the noble matter of dignity: It is nearing the end of the evening‚ I have already turned in for the night‚ but sleep is non-forthcoming. So‚ I began to ponder upon the matter of dignity‚ and find my asking the weary question‚ once again‚ “What is dignity?” Upon asking myself this I remember an intriguing conversation between the respectable Mr. Graham and myself. It was at one of Lord Darlington frequent
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Analysis of gothic elements in Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein and S.T.Coleridge’s Christabel Romantic writers commonly used gothic elements to describe supernatural events that included a dark setting and gloomy atmosphere‚ usually followed by a dreadful crime. Many writers took interest in the gothic‚ and in this essay I will try to analyze and discuss the use of those elements in Frankenstein written by Mary Shelley and Christabel by S.T.Coleridge. “The Gothic novel could be seen as a description
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