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There is perfect similarities between life and fiction because Life means of whatever we do during our life time as an active creature and the fiction also contain living character who plays various important roles as a living man
There is perfect similarities between life and fiction because Life means of whatever we do during our life time as an active creature and the fiction also contain living character who plays various important roles as a living man
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A Grammarian's Funeral written by Robert Browning is a dramatic monologue i.e. a kind of poem in which only a single person speaks while all others remain passive listeners and do not say any word. The story always begins at a critical stage. In the poem, the story begins with the death of the GrammRead more
A Grammarian’s Funeral written by Robert Browning is a dramatic monologue i.e. a kind of poem in which only a single person speaks while all others remain passive listeners and do not say any word. The story always begins at a critical stage. In the poem, the story begins with the death of the Grammarian whose corpse is being taken to the mountain for burial.
In the poem, the speaker is a disciple of the grammarian and while moving to the mountains keep telling about his life and how he dedicated himself to studying. He gave up all the joys of life and did not go after short-term money. He believed that he should learn and then enjoy life after death.
The narrator (disciple) keeps telling how he was a man of high thinking and had an unquenchable thirst for knowledge. The disciple then compares his master with people having low thinking.
Though the disciple keeps telling the good things about his master, he reveals how the grammarian ruined his life because of excessive reading. He lost his youth quickly and was attacked by all types of diseases. However, he still did not give up reading and kept acquiring knowledge till his last breath.
On the way, the disciple keeps giving instructions to his fellows which keeps us in touch with what is happening physically. The funeral finally reached the top of the mountain where they want to bury the grammarian. He utters final words in the praise of grammarian and along with others go back.
Note that, this poem as a dramatic monologue throws light on the character and thinking of the grammarian as well as that of the disciple himself.
This poem is quite ironic because though the grammarian is a hero for disciples, the poet seems to be criticizing him for wasting his life. Through the words of the disciple, the poet reveals how the grammarian ruined his life and missed the joys of youth. He could not enjoy the taste of life and the art of God. He did not do anything for society. He learned for himself and died with it.
It did not yield any fruit. In the end, he was taken by his disciples for burial (again an ironic situation).
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Othello is based in 16th Century Europe when the Christian Venetians were locking horns with Muslims of the Ottoman Empire for the Mediterranean lands of Cyprus etc. The word ‘Moors’ used for Othello was used for Muslims and may suggest he was converted to Christianity and recruited to the Italian aRead more
Othello is based in 16th Century Europe when the Christian Venetians were locking horns with Muslims of the Ottoman Empire for the Mediterranean lands of Cyprus etc.
The word ‘Moors’ used for Othello was used for Muslims and may suggest he was converted to Christianity and recruited to the Italian army in the crusade against the Turks. The inspiration behind the text was a story Giraldi Cinthio’sfrom Hecatommithi.
See lessFollowing literary devices have been used in the poem The Charge of the Light Brigade. Repetition The poet uses repetition several times in the poem. e.g. Half a league is repeated 3 times. Other repeated phrases are “Rode the six hundred”, “Forward the Light Brigade”, “Cannons to the Right of Them,Read more
Following literary devices have been used in the poem The Charge of the Light Brigade.
The poet uses repetition several times in the poem. e.g. Half a league is repeated 3 times. Other repeated phrases are “Rode the six hundred”, “Forward the Light Brigade”, “Cannons to the Right of Them, Cannons to the Left of Them, Cannons in front of them”, “All the World Wondered“.
It means repetition of same words in the starting of a number of consecutive lines. Anaphora has also been used in the poem. e.g. “Cannon“in the phrases Cannons to the Right of Them, Cannons to the Left of Them, Cannons in front of them.
“Storm’d at with shot and shell”, “Theirs but to do and die”, “All the world wondered”, “While horse and hero fell”
Here are the examples of personification in the poem – “the mouth of hell”, “the jaws of Death“.
Read the detailed summary of the poem or its structure.
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The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle is a document tracing the history of the Anglo-Saxon people from 60 BCE (around the time of Julius Caesar’s first British campaign) up until 850 CE. It is basically a chronological account of events in Anglo-Saxon and Norman England, a compilation of seven surviving interreRead more
The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle is a document tracing the history of the Anglo-Saxon people from 60 BCE (around the time of Julius Caesar’s first British campaign) up until 850 CE. It is basically a chronological account of events in Anglo-Saxon and Norman England, a compilation of seven surviving interrelated manuscript records that is the primary source for the early history of England. The narrative was first assembled in the reign of King Alfred (871–899) from materials that included some epitome of universal history. The Chronicle survived to the modern period in seven manuscripts and a fragment, which are generally known by letters of the alphabet.
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