The problem is that these ambitions are not easily reconcilable. ... Just like so many Victorian poets and intellectuals, Alfred Lord Tennyson found it hard to give poetry and the figure of the poet a place in society. ... A good example of this special percepction can be found in...
He argues that if time passes and they age then her beauty shall no more be found' and his lust' turn to ashes'. ... The admittance of feelings for her alone were dangerous enough, although the fact he took the risk perhaps speaks better than the poem of how he felt about love, but to openly say anything critical could easily have been a death sentence. ...
Although such an obsessive dwelling on the subject of mortality could easily be seen as morbid, there is an undercurrent of hope as the speaker insists that death does not have to result in unhappiness for those who are left behind. ... Irrespective of the nature of the death of the speaker, it's results will be completely irrevocably, and the reader can sympathise with the lover, who has suddenly found himself alone. ...
What is literature? We have to answer some basic questions when we study theory of literature. What is literature? What is literary study? Are they both different? What is the distinction? These questions are followed by the questions about the nature of literature, its functions, etc. Theory of lit...
"Keats's Odes of May 1819 articulate a Profoundly Divided Self." Discuss. The poetry of John Keats articulates an astonishing literary liturgy, which has influenced much of the study of nineteenth century literature; though during his short lifetime he was deemed to be a "lower class cockney," and an ignorant, unsettled "pretender" to a higher culture. Barnard (1999) asserts that Keats is one of the great English romantic poets, whose prime belief was in art and beauty. The most famous of Keats's poems, the Odes, can be seen to reflect the notion that he was a poet preoccupied by...
