English Notes

To His Coy Mistress is a metaphysical poem written by the English author and politician Andrew Marvell (1621–1678) either during or just before the English Interregnum. It was published posthumously in 1681. His many beautiful poems published posthumously but this one has his best known poem because he has used in this the great figurative language to the love. The highest height of figurative love used by him to make sure the sense of metaphysical love. He made his readers very ease of love understanding by his different definition of love song. In this poem, as a regular reader also found the centre of gravity, the centre of excellence, the centre of strength, the centre of joy, the centre of bitterness and the centre of sweetness. Actually, very ease to say that this poem is not only a symbolic image of love but also a deepest shadow of his young emotions. This poem is considered one of the finest and is possibly the best recognised carpe diem poem in English. Although, the da...

Andrew Marvell's birth on 31st of March 1621 and his death on 16th of August 1678. He was an English metaphysical poet, satirist and politician who sat in the House of Commons at various times between 1659 and 1678. During the Commonwealth period he was a colleague and friend of John Milton . His poems range from the love-song “To His Coy Mistress” , to evocations of an aristocratic country house and garden in “Upon Appleton House” and “The Garden”, the political address “An Horatian Ode upon Cromwell’s Return from Ireland” , and the later personal and political satires “Flecknoe” and “The Character of Holland” . Andrew Marvell was born in  Winestead, East Riding of Yorkshire  on 31 March 1621. He was the son of a  Church of England  clergyman also named Andrew Marvell. The family moved to Hull when his father was appointed Lecturer at Holy Trinity Church, and Marvell was educated at  Hull Grammar School. Aged 13, Marvell attended T...

The Retreat is one of Henry Vaughan’s best-known metaphysical poems. This poem explores how the poet is derailed from purity as a grown-up man and his longing for returning to the blissful state of everlastingness. The Retreat glorifies the stage of infancy as the purest state of a man’s life. Before beginning a reader should take note of the use of the word “retreat” in the title. Through Vaughan’s selection of this metaphysical conceit, it takes on two different meanings. The first, that of hiding or getting away from one’s life, and the other as a reference to a place of happiness. He is seeking out both a return to the past and a retreat to a happier time. The two coincide with the speaker in this poem.   Happy those early days! When I Shined in my angel infancy.   Before I understood this place Appointed for my second race,   Or taught my soul to fancy aught But a white, celestial thought;   When yet I had not walked above A mile or two...

“The Altar” is an example of a shape poem, a poem whose lines are arranged in the shape of their subject matter. The lines of “The Altar” are shaped like an altar. Pretty cool, huh? This kind of verse is also sometimes called visual poetry. Let me stop now and clarify that visual poetry (the good kind, anyway) is not made simply by randomly chopping up lines anywhere so that they can be put into a certain shape. Not at all. The skill required to make a shape poem will be heard by the ear when reading it, not merely seen on the page. To see (or rather hear) what I mean, for those listening to the audio, listen as I read it now. You can hear the lengthening, shortening, lengthening lines pile up on one another and into a tall structure with a broad face and equally broad base--held together by a slender, sturdy post. Both effect is achieved by the varying number of poetic feet in each couplet. The rhythm for each line is iambic, but the meter changes throughout. The couplets follow this ...

इस भव्य आभार के लिए आपका बहुत-बहुत धन्यवाद। अकादमिक रिकॉर्ड के इस सम्मेलन में मेरी निरंतरता और ईमानदारी के लिए आपने मुझे यह बहुमूल्य उपहार दिया है। इस सम्मान के लिए मैं एक बार फिर अपने पूरे दिल से आपको और आपके इस संस्था के सभी सदस्यों को धन्यवाद देता हूँ। यह मेरे लिए वास्तव में अमूल्य है... उपहार के रूप में दिए गए किसी भी सम्मान की कोई कीमत नहीं होती। आपका यह साकारात्मक पहल शिक्षक और शिक्षा के क्षेत्र में एक प्रसंशनीय प्रयास है।

‘The Flower’ by George Herbert describes how the changing of the seasons impacts a speaker’s outlook on life and relationship with God. The poem begins with the speaker celebrating the arrival of spring. This is something, he relishes every year as it brings about a great mental and emotional transformation during present starta. During the winter months, like a flower, he is shriveled up in the ground finding comfort where he can. When spring comes, life improving and God’s opinion of the world improves, he grows up towards heaven. This is his most important goal in life, to prove himself to God. The speaker imagines what it will be like in heaven and knows that he would do anything to get there. He doesn’t imagine there could be anyone of the planet feeling any differently than he. He did so what he wanted in his life to prove himself as a super thought. 

It’ is a poem written by English metaphysical poet John Donne . It is published in 1633, the poem is viewed as exemplifying Donne’s wit and ironical approach. It is addressed to one friend from another, but concerns itself with the complexities of romantic love: the speaker presents love as so all-consuming that lovers forgo other pursuits to spend time together. In this sense, love is asceticism, a major conceit in the poem. The poem’s title serves a dual purpose: while the speaker argues that his love will canonise him into a kind of sainthood, the poem itself functions as a canonisation of the pair of lovers. New Critic Cleanth Brooks used the poem, along with Alexander Pope’s “An Essay on Man ” and William Wordsworth’s “ Composed upon Westminster Bridge , September 3, 1802”, to illustrate his argument for paradox as central theme to poetry. The Holy Sonnets also known as the Divine Meditations or Divine Sonnets are a series of nineteen poems by the English poet John Donne (...