Ans. Shelley’s “Ode to the West Wind” is a wonderful lyric in the tradition of romantic poetry. In the poem, Shelley considers himself as a poet prophet campaigning for reform and revolution using the ‘Wild West Wind’ to destroy everything that is old and defunct and plant new and progressive, liberal and democratic ideals in its …

Introduction: Grierson did rightly say, “Classic and Romantic are terms no attempts to define which will ever seem entirely convincing to ourselves or others”. So everyone tries to attribute one’s own views to “Romanticism”. For, to Hem and Beers, Romanticism is synonymous with Mediaevalism; to Elton it is “thought confounding words”, to Victor Hugo, “Melancholy” is …

Ans. Shelley was an ardent philanthropist who wished to rouse a soporific world from its moral stupor. A visionary anarchist he decried the enslavement of the mind by church, law, custom and tradition. He inveighed against priests, kings, soldiers and magistrates and other wielders of institutional authority. Despite his invective against organized oppression, Shelley spurned …

SHELLEY AS A POET OF HOPE AND REGENERATION Consider Shelley as a poet of hope with reference tohis poem “Ode to the West Wind”.Or,Discuss the theme of hope and regeneration as you find it in Shelley’s poetry.Or,Write a note on Shelley’s optimism with illustrations from his poems.  Ans. Shelley was a born revolutionary and he had firm faith …

 Ans. Percy Bysshe Shelley is one of the great Romantic poets in English literature. His poetry is marked by excellence and power in several departments. In the first place, he possesses the lyrical gift or the power of embodying in musical language some transient but vivid emotion or some passing mood in such a way as …

SHELLEY: A PROPHET AND A REFORMER Consider Shelley as a prophet and Reformer in his poems. Introduction: Shelley is one of the subtlest and profoundest thinkers among English poets, a prophet with a penetrating of reality, whose words can only be  thoroughly understood after long and careful study. They are well described by Browning as, “a sublime fragmentary essay …

Show that Johnson’s criticism is comparative, historic, judicial and impressionistic all at once as illustrated by his Preface to Shakespeare. Ans. Introduction. Johnson concludes his discussion of Shakespeare’s disregard of the unities with the remark that the preservation of the unities does not carry much credit in itself. He says that his examination of this question may bring the …

SHAKESPEARE AND HIS AGE: HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVE AND NATIVE GENIUS Shakespeare’s aim to please his audience. Shakespeare’s ignorance of rules, if it was ignorance at all, would require to be excused in view of the circumstances of the dramatist’s life. It is necessary to keep in mind the age in which Shakespeare lived, before we evaluate his achievement as a …

Joyce fled from Dublin to the mainland of Europe, but Dublin never left him. He wrote about the city for the rest of his life— in Dubliners, Portrait of the Artist, Ulysses, and Finnegan’s Wake. Dublin is more than the backdrop of Portrait of the Artist. It is also the symbol of Stephen’s discontent. The …

THE SCARLET LETTER SUMMARY CHAPTER 1 Near a dilapidated wooden prison a crown of men and women gathered.  The narrator states that the founder of new settlement has tried to build a prison and a graveyard. He goes on this place is founded in Boston and it is described as the black flower of civilized …