William Butler Yeats was a renowned Irish poet who tried to bring back the Irish Drama, the Celtic. He was ‘a man of letters’ and was one of the spiritualistic persons of the modern era. He wrote poems with reality in them. “The Second Coming” is one such poem and a spiritual one as well …
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Indian Reservation: Caughnawaga
A.M.Klein The lamenting tone is dramatic with an abrupt beginning to captivate the attention of the readers. It means a sense of loss. Men were of different kinds like warriors and chieftains, wherein brave means warriors which has two semantic differences “where and brave”. It tells us that they are no more brave. The early …
Of Friendship – Francis Bacon
The opening lines of Francis Bacon’s essay from his The Essays is a statement of Aristotle, which means that man is naturally gregarious and that it is unnatural to avoid the society unless he performs meditation or has a contemplation of the divine. Bacon says that living in a crowd as in a great city …
Aristotle’s Poetics (Part III)
The artistic ornament in a diction implies the rhythm, harmony and song. Rhythm and harmony in verse may be used to develop some parts and song to imply others. They are all designed to enrich the language of the play to make it more effective. There are a few aspects included in a tragedy and …
Aristotle’s Poetics (Part II)
Catharsis (meaning purification). Aristotle implicitly suggests that tragedy helps to keep pity and fear in their due proportions by allowing to find the spiritual purgation of these elements. Catharsis directs out pity and fear towards worthier objects. In a tragedy where the sufferings being witnessed are not our own. These emotions find a free and …
An Overview of Wolfgang Iser’s The Reading Process
Wolfgang Iser’s The Reading Process: A Phenomenological Approach Reading is a process that envisages an act of comprehension. Whenever we read meaning in a text, we read meaning into a text and out of the text. Therefore, while reading meaning we have to consider two things – the actual text & the actions involved in …
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Periphery to the Center: A Reading on Amitav Ghosh
Nation has been considered as an ‘imagined political community’ by Benedict Anderson. It is considered ‘imagined’ as it is limited and assumed as a community to which the people ‘regardless of the actual inequality and exploitation’ are forced to believe nation to be a deep, horizontal comradeship to kill themselves willingly for these imagined and …
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Aristotle’s Poetics (Part 1)
Aristotle (384-322 BC) was born in Stagira, an ancient Greek city in the central Macedonia. He studied Biology and worked as a teacher. He was the disciple of Plato and joined his academy and remained there for several years. He left the academy shortly after the death of Plato. In 342 BC, he became the …
History being Reconstructed
‘History’, the English word is derived from the Greek word ‘istoria’ meaning inquiry, exploration, research which defines the origin and development of humankind and also depicts a record of the various and distinct events and movements in its time. As Thomas Carlyle defines history, it is a subject that traces the essence of the past …
Conflicts and Man’s Will against Nature
People, though wonders at the beauty of nature and its creations, fail to realize that they are also part of the web of life in the earth. Moreover, they adopt an anthropocentric attitude towards nature which, in fact, results in exploitation of it. This kind of attitude towards nature has urged several critics and writers …