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Geoffrey Chaucer’s art of Poetry

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Date Added: Feb 2, 2009;

Category: Literature

Geoffrey Chaucer (1343?-1400) is considered as the father of English poetry not only for his some finest poetic works but also for his gift of poetic art. Chaucer was the first notable creator of characters in English literature. As a poet and creator of literary characters, he had no...
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Wole Soyinka’s Play Swamp Dwellers: An Exposition of Religious Hypocrisy

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Date Added: Feb 2, 2009;

Category: Literature

Wole Soyinka’s Swamp Dwellers, a play built on the rural setting, is a blunt exposition of the religious hypocrisy,typical in a culturally and economically backward society in any parts of the world. Wole Soyinka, the most distinguished playwright of Africa, exposes the...
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Use of metaphor in Seamus Heaney's poem 'Digging'

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Date Added: Jan 22, 2009;

Category: Literature

Digging ,written by the famous Irish poet Seamus Heaney ,is a metaphorical poem. The very title of the poem Digging bears the metaphorical implications. Metaphor ,as a titerary feagure , indicates the implied simile.In a metaphor a quality belonging to an object is transferred to...
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William Wordsworth's 'It's a Beauteous Evening Calm and Free' as a Petrarchan sonnet.

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Date Added: Jan 22, 2009;

Category: Literature

Perfected by fourteenth century Italian poet Petrarch the Italian sonnet is essentially a lyric poem of fourteen iambic pentameter lines. An Italian sonnet is divided into two parts: octave and sestet. The first eight lines of an Italian sonnet are collectively known as an octave, and the rest...
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Part1 :Irish Elements in Yeats’s poetry

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Date Added: Jan 18, 2009;

Category: Literature

"There is no great literature without nationality ,no nationality without literature." So wrote W.B Yeats in his 'Letters to the New Island'.This self-stated nationalism runs through the veins of W.B Yeats’s poetry.From the age of twenty-two almost all of his poetry had Ireland as its...
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Part2: Irish Elemetns in Yeats's later poems

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Date Added: Jan 18, 2009;

Category: Literature

Yeats believed the idea that poetry should be changed to adjust the changes around us.So,his nationalism is not only seen in the treatment of the Irish myths and legends.He also wrote about the contemporary issues that concered his Ireland.His early interest in myths and legends was relaced by...
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