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The Garden Party

“The Garden Party” is a short story by modernist writer Katherine Mansfield (1888-1923) which was published in 1922. "The Garden Party" focuses on the social and psychological discoveries of a young, well-to-do woman who vicariously experiences, through certain events, the realities of life. These realities include social injustice, the classicism of society, life, and death....

Final Solution

Mahesh Dattani is one of the best and most serious contemporary playwrights. His themes and the characters are chosen from the Indian society but he raises them to the universal level. While dealing with the problem he lays bare the Indian society with respect to its psyche, various socio-cultural, religious, mythical, ritualistic and political patterns...

Faerie Queene

ALLEGORY: The Faerie Queene, written by Edmund Spenser in the late 1500s, is an allegorical tale created to teach its readers how to live up to the six virtues Spenser explores in each book. The first half was published in 1590 and a second installment in 1596. On a literal level, the poem follows several knights in...

Easter Wings

George Herbert’s poem “Easter Wings” is a good example of a “shape” or “pattern” poem, adopted from the ancient Greeks, in which the shape mirrors the theme. The poem consists of two ten-line stanzas of varying line lengths, which in their printed form on the page resemble the wings of a bird. But these wings...

Dream of the rood-2

Personifying an inanimate object is typical of the medieval tradition in which swords, mead and the like are personified in riddles. Riddles were typically told in the mead hall as entertainment for the thanes. By using the cross as a narrator, the poet uses a common medieval technique that would help to appease and entertain...

Dream of the rood

The Dream of the Rood, one of the few surviving pieces of Anglo-Saxon literature, is a vital reference for the ambiguous culture of England's early ancestors. It is one of the earliest Christian poems in Old English literature, and one of the earliest Christian poems in all of Anglo-Saxon literature. Both its author and its...

DIGGING

Written in the summer of 1964, “Digging” is the first poem of Seamus Heaney’s debut collection, “Death of a Naturalist”. “Digging" takes a look at how we can be so incredibly rooted in a family, a tradition, and a place, and still be our own people, different from those who came before us. The presence in...

Coleridge

“Kubla Khan, or a Vision in a Dream. A Fragment." Fragment here indicates that the poem presents a description of only part of the images in the dream. Samuel Taylor Coleridge's “Kubla Khan" is a lyric poem centering on the author's response to a dream. Coleridge prefaces the poem with an explanation of how what he...

The Canterbury Tales

The Canterbury Tales (Middle English: Tales of Caunterbury) is a collection of 24 stories that runs to over 17,000 lines written in Middle English by Geoffrey Chaucer between 1387–1400. Geoffrey Chaucer (1343 – 1400), known as the Father of English literature, is widely considered the greatest English poet of the Middle Ages and was the first poet to be buried in Poets' Corner of Westminster Abbey. Prologue: The frame story of the poem,...

The Tyger

The Tyger is a highly symbolic poem based on Blake’s personal philosophy of spiritual and intellectual revolution by individuals. The speaker in the poem is puzzled at the sight of a tiger in the night, and he asks it a series of questions about its fierce appearance and about the creator who made it. But...