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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…

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Oct 2025

Novels Others

Discuss Marriage as a theme in Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen

“It is a truth universally acknowledged that a single man in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a wife”. This opening sentence of the novel Pride and Prejudice…

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“All the same, we cling to our last pleasures as the tree clings to its last leaves” explain the lines from “The Fly”

All the same, we cling to our last pleasures as the tree clings to its last leaves Katherine Mansfield makes a comment on human nature in her short story "The…

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What is Caesura; Definition and Example

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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Bring out the elements irony and sarcasm in Eliot’s “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock.”

Irony implies the contrast between what is apparent and what is actual. This is a literary device that reveals the grim reality underlying a romantic or attractive façade of a…

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Discuss the importance of the epigraph of T.S.Eliot’s poem “Marina”

Quis hic locus, quae regio, quae mundi plaga? The epigraph of the poem Marina by T. S. Eliot is taken from Seneca’s tragedy Hercules Furens. The Latin words—“Quis hic locus, quae…

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Roger Ascham (1515-1568) and his famous works

Roger Ascham (1515-68) was a distinguished scholar in Latin and classical languages. Ascham was born in Yorkshire and entered Cambridge University at the age of fourteen. He completed his bachelor’s…

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Author John Banville and his Famous Works

John Banville (1945- ) is an Irish novelist, short story writer. He was born in Wexford, where he received his secondary education at St Peter’s College. He worked successively as…

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Jul 2025

Literary Terms Others

What is Burlesque? Definition, and Examples

The term “burlesque” derives from the Italian burlesco, from burla, ‘ridicule’ or joke’. Burlesque is a literary, dramatic, or musical work intended to cause laughter by caricaturing the manner or spirit of…

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A note on Shakespeare’s mixture of prose and verse in “King Lear”

While the excellence of Shakespeare’s verse requires no more eulogies, the quality of his prose remains a miracle. The prose of the greatest bard of English was the finest. It…

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