HOSSAIN'S ACADEMY

Social Picture of English Society in the "Prologue to the Canterbury Tales" Geoffrey Chaucer was a poet and representative of the 14th century. He represents his own age and society and holds the mirror to his time and society. His poetry reflects the 14th century not in fragments but as an entire. The Prologue to The Canterbury Tales forms an exquisite commentary upon English life. This is in the Middle Ages. The group of pilgrims in the "Prologue to the Canterbury Tales" is itself an unparalleled picture of the society of Chaucer’s time. Here are some thirty persons belonging to the foremost different classes. The Knight is the picture of a professional and knowledgeable soldier. He is coming straight from foreign wars with clothes all stained from his armor. The variety of lords for whom he has fought suggest that he's some kind of mercenary. But it seems that Chaucer may have known people at English court with similar records. However, Chaucer writes closel...

A Critical Assessment of Poem "No Second Troy" by William Butler Yeats "No Second Troy" by William Butler Yeats (13 June 1865 – 28 January 1939), an excellent Irish poet, is a poem about the love relationship between the poet and Maud Gonne, a devastatingly beautiful Irish woman. It is one of the best literary love stories of the 20th century. The poem guidelines how an attractive dazzling beauty can cause a devastating huge distraction with the reference to Helen of Troy, from the Iliad and the Aeneid. Now we will critically look into the poem. Before analyzing the poem, let us have a look at the historical background of the poem. William Butler Yeats, in fact, published the poem in 1916 inside the collection “Responsibilities and Other Poems”, after he had already proposed his love to Gonne; and been rejected on several occasions. Yeats was once passionate about her and pursued her for over a decade and dedicated many of his poems to her. In this poem, however, In...

Ernest Miller Hemingway's  ‘The Old Man and the Sea’ as an Allegory of Struggle of Life Ernest Miller Hemingway's  (July 21, 1899 – July 2, 1961)  ‘The Old Man and the Sea’ is a story of a historical fisherman's single-handed battle with a big combat in the Gulf Stream north of Havana. However, it has quite a number of allegorical interpretations. First, it may additionally be considered as a Christian allegory. Actually, an allegory is that the rhetorical strategy of extending a metaphor through a whole narrative. It has additionally been handled as an allegory of an artist's fighting with his material. But the story might also be considered as an epic metaphor for life. Human existence is right here depicted as warfare towards the unconquerable forces of the world, in which a sort of victory is although possible. Hemingway portrays right here Santiago, an easy historic fisherman who is successful of a magnificent dignity and heroism via capability of which he wins an ...

The eighteenth-century English social picture in The Rape of the Lock The Rape of the Lock as a social parody Satire to the trendy women in The Rape of the Lock Alexander Pope  (1688 –1744)  was so unmistakable an essayist that the age where he composed is named after him I. e. the time of Pope. He delightfully holds, in his composition, the requests of the time through the overall soul of parody and good lecturing. In this association Leslie Stephen in his Alexander Pope says, "No writer reflects so clearly and completely the spirit so clearly   and completely the spirit of his own day as Pope does’’. Subsequently, The Rape of the Lock has been a fantastic mode of his mirroring a total image of the eighteenth-century modern English society. Besides, it is likewise treated as a bit of social parody.  "It is the epic of trifling's; a page torn from the negligible,     delight looking for life of trendy magnificence,'' Let us presently perceive ho...

Various Important Aspects of Belinda’s Character/ The Character of Belinda Alexander Pope (1688 –1744) is considered one of the best English poets, and therefore the foremost poet of the first eighteenth century. Alexander Pope has planned “The Rape of the Lock” in light of the fact that the agent works portraying Belinda in light of the fact that the model of the basic popular women of his time. Belinda is the central fascination and she turns into its champion. She is the sole driving character. However, her shouts and accordingly the glimmers of helping from her eyes are contrasted with those of an epic saint.   There are a few parts of the character of Belinda as depicted by Pope inside the Rape of the Lock. At the very beginning of the poem, we consider her to be an inactive and late-rising blue-blooded woman who has an unmistakable fascination for homegrown pets. Her inaction is set up once we see her dozing unto twelve. In addition, they felt intrigued by the adoration ...

Nature in Shelley’s Adonais Nature has an extraordinary role in Romantic verse. Also,  Percy Bysshe Shelley ( 4 August 1792 – 8 July 1822)  isn't past this propensity. Adonais, one of his most acclaimed poems, being a peaceful epitaph, contains normal setting, characteristic components, common characters and so forth. In addition, Shelley extracts pictures, images and nature legends from nature. Furthermore, in thematic perspective, nature has an extraordinary philosophic concern in this poem. In the form of a pastoral elegy,, the speaker and the individual whom he grieves both are appeared as shepherds; and we realize that shepherds are firmly related with nature and indigenous habitat. Besides, there are numerous different grievers gotten from nature.   Shelley’s love for the dynamic in Nature: While Wordsworth is keen on the static and quiet aspects o( Nature, Shelley is fascinated by the dynamic. He himself has admitted: “ “I take great delight in watchi...

Treatment of Man and Lady in Don Juan   George Gordon Lord Byron (1795-1821), regardless of his being a sentimental artist, was a lot of not the same as other sentimental artists in regard of the qualities of his verse. The vast majority of them had gotten away from the social concerns, for example from objectivity into the universe of nature and of creative mind just as into subjectivity. Be that as it may, in Byron, we see a significant mix of subjectivity and objectivity, for example of individual and social. In contrast to other people, he was a lot of sarcastic to the social flaws. From this inclination, Byron composed his well-known 'mock-epic', Don Juan, uncovering and parodying lip service and the defilement of high class society, scrutinizing the beautiful propensity of the time. In any case, to make it effective he utilized mind humor, incongruity, misrepresentation and so on   The Narrator of Don Juan  

  What is satire?   Parody and satire  in Don Juan George Gordon Lord Byron (1795-1821), paying little mind to his being a wistful craftsman, was a great deal of not equivalent to other nostalgic craftsmen in respect of the characteristics of his stanza. By far most of them had moved away from the social worries, for instance from objectivity into the universe of nature and of imaginative psyche similarly as into subjectivity. In any case, in Byron, we see a critical blend of subjectivity and objectivity, for instance of individual and social. Rather than others, he was a great deal of wry to the social defects. From this tendency, Byron made his notable 'mock-epic', Don Juan, revealing and spoofing empty talk and the contamination of high class society, investigating the excellent inclination of the time. Regardless, to make it effective he used psyche humor, ambiguity, distortion,  etc.   Definition of Satire: "Satire  is a  genre  of...