The Dramatic Monologue is one of the most fascinating poetic forms in English literature. It is a poem in which a single character, distinct from the poet, speaks to a…
Caesura is a break or pause in a line of poetry, dictated by the natural rhythm of the language and/or enforced by punctuation.
A line may have more than one caesura,…
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Deus ex machina, a Latin phrase meaning “god from the machine,” refers to a narrative device or plot device in storytelling where a seemingly unsolvable problem is suddenly and abruptly…
Pleasure is no inconvenient word. This simply implies anything that may confer happiness and delight. Musical performance, horse
racing, cinema show, and any similar performance may definitely form pleasure. This gives…
In the course of his discussion of the characteristic charge of coldness against the English nature, Forster’s notes have made one more
observation. This is an Englishman’s usual attitude towards criticism.…
Charles Lamb’s “The Superannuated Man” deals with the experiences of a clerk, his sufferings and anxieties during the long thirty-six years of his life as an accounts clerk, and also…
The Stationers’ Register, also known as the Stationers’ Company Register, was a historic record maintained by the Worshipful Company of Stationers, a London guild of printers, booksellers, and publishers. The…
“The Personal Heresy” is a thought-provoking essay written by the renowned British author and scholar, C.S. Lewis. First published in 1939, this essay emerged as a significant contribution to literary…
In this concluding passage of his short story The Lagoon, Joseph Conrad focuses the profound tragedy in the life of his hero Arsat and reflects symbolically on the illusion of the…
During the 16th century, the religious unity of the Holy Roman Empire, which comprised a patchwork of territories in present-day Germany, Austria, and parts of neighboring countries, was shattered by…