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 particular character, situation, or matter. The author is found to have recourse here to the presentation of the contradiction between what is believed to be…
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 regio, quae mundi plaga?”—in English mean, “What is this place? What country, what region, what quarter of the world?” They are the first bewildered words…
I was angry with my friend:
I told my wrath, my wrath did end.
I was angry with my foe:
I told it not, my wrath did grow.
And I watered it in fears
Night and morning with my tears,
And I sunned it with smiles
And with soft deceitful wiles.
And it grew both…
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 degree at the age of eighteen and was soon thereafter made a fellow of the university. He was the tutor and later her secretary. Catholic…
George Borrow(1803–1881) was an English novelist and travel writer. He was educated at Edinburgh High School and at Norwich Grammar School. He was articled to a solicitor but after editing Celebrated Trials, and Remarkable Cases of Criminal Jurisprudence (1825) spent several years traveling through Europe and learning languages. Between 1833 and 1840, Borrow served as…
Amatory fiction, also known as romance fiction or romantic literature, refers to a genre of literature that focuses on love, relationships, and emotional connections between characters. It explores themes of passion, desire, courtship, and often includes elements of sensuality and sexuality. Amatory fiction typically revolves around the development of a romantic relationship, often with a…
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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 resolved by an unexpected and often improbable intervention. This intervention is typically brought about by a character, event, or force that appears out of nowhere…
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 distractions in life and does away with
boredom.
Aldous Huxley, however, has used the term 'pleasure' in his treatise, "Pleasure," in a different way. He refers, no…
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. With his undeveloped heart, rational understanding, and pragmatic approach, the Englishman is found to have developed a specific attitude of mind. Emotion seems to have…
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 his deliverance and carefree mood during superannuation. He had to join his office in the Mincing Lane in his early youth, abandoning the sports and…