English Notes

This poem has been written by John Donne when he was going to leave Germany. He addressed his beloved wife who was very sad.  He wants to make understand his wife that he is not going away because he is sick of her nor he is leaving her because he has found a more beautiful beloved than her. He argues that one day he must die.  Separation is is like a brief death so by separations he will teach himself how to die.  He compares his journey to the journey of the Sun. The sun went away the previous night and came back again in the morning but he will come back sooner because his journey is shorter unlike the sun he has incentive to come back he will fly back on the wings of love. "O how feeble is mans power,  That if good fortune fall, Cannot adde another hour, Nor a Lost hour recall. But come bad chance,  And we joine to it our strength,  And we teach it art and length,  It selfie o'r us to advance."          ...

This poem(Separation) has been written by Rabindranath Tagore. He was a remarkable and significant contributor to the emerging history of Indian literature. He had not formal schooling taste even though he gave us a large part of literary work. He had given us unbeatable property as Gitanjali. Here, I am going to explain the poem that has been taken from the Gitanjali. First stanza of the poem,  "Clouds heap upon clouds and it darkens,  Ah,love, why dost thou let me wait outside at the door all alone?"                              The poet starts with the bad situation of weather, he wants to say that clouds are getting darker and darker. The shining ray is rapidly darkening so oh my love, why are you standing me outside at the door. I think it's not comfortable, all alone and impatiently waiting for you.  "In the b...

I think, I am very fortunate to have my birth in the greatest democratic system in the world. Everyone knows that India is the world's biggest democratic country in the world and the people of India are very lucky to play the role for their rights freely. As I know that each man of this country has equal right to play his own feeling in different aspects. I mean, I have a big institution in the world to share own experiences in front of the honorable guardian and members of the big institution. This type of liberty, we got after a long war so that we feel immense lucky.                         As I congratulate those who gave us such type of things in the country. No doubt to say that, we have different land to grow different kinds of crops and vegetables to eat. We have also good institutions to get competent knowledge about the world and also of different cultures and atmospheres. People of the world looking around...

As we know that Shakespeare is one of the best dramatists in the world but especially, I am going to explain his dramatic career. Shakespeare's active dramatic career in London lasted about twenty years and may be divided into three symmetrical periods. The first extends from the year 1587 to 1593-94; the second period from this date to the end of the century; and the third period from 1600 to 1608, soon after which time Shakespeare ceased to write regularly for the stage, was less in London and more and more at Stratford.Some modern critics add to the fourth period, including a few plays which from internal as well as external evidence must have been among the poet's latest productions. As the exact dates of these plays are unknown, this period may be taken to extend from 1608 to 1612. The three dramas produced during these years are, however, hardly entitled to be ranked as a separate period. They may be regarded as supplementary to the grand series of dramas belonging to...

Geoffrey Chaucer ( 1340-1400) was an English poet and renowned author. Widely considered the greatest English poet of the Middle Ages, he is best known for his  work The Canterbury Tales . He has been called the " father of English literature ", or, alternatively, the " father of English poetry ".He was the first writer to be buried in what has since come to be called Poets' Corner, in Westminster Abbey. Chaucer also gained fame as a philosopher and astronomer. He maintained a career in the civil service as a bureaucrat, courtier, diplomat, and member of parliament.Among Chaucer's many other works are The Book of the Duchess, The House of Fame, The Legend of Good Women , and Troilus and Criseyde. He is seen as crucial in legitimising the literary use of Middle English when the dominant literary languages in England were still French and Latin. While records concerning the lives of his contemporaries, William Langland and the Pearl Poets are practical...

After the Restoration in 1660, when Charles II came to the throne, there was a complete repudiation of the Puritan ideals and way of living. In English literature the period from 1660 to 1700 is called the period of Restoration, because monarchy was restored in England, and Charles II, the son of Charles I who had been defeated and beheaded, came back to England from France and became the King.It is called the Age of Dryden, because Dryden was the dominating and most representative literary figure of the Age. As the Puritans who were previously controlling the country, and were supervising her literary and moral and social standards, were finally defeated, a reaction was launched against whatever they held sacred. All restraints and discipline were thrown to the winds, and a wave of licentiousness and frivolity swept the country. Charles II and his followers who had enjoyed a gay life in France during their exile, did their best to introduce that type of foppery and looseness in Engl...

The poem 'Desideria' has been composed by William Wordsworth after his daughter's death. He is one of the greatest poets of Romantic Age. This poem is the deepest feeling of the poet because of losing his flower of family as his lovely daughter 'Catherine'. The poet composed this poem into fourteen lines, that is called Sonnet. This Sonnet shows poet's memory for his daughter. Let's see stanza by stanza of this poem.  "Surprized by joy- impatient as the wind, I turned to share the transport--Oh!with whom, But thee-deep buried in the silent tomb,  That spot which no vicissitude can find?"                                       In the first stanza of the poem, the poet says that when she comes to our family then we surprise with a lot of joy and happiness. We want to share thi...