Based on the second chapter of Bible Named, Samuel. (13-19.)
First Published in 1681
John Dryden written this poem to keep with Biblical references. In this poem he changed the name or places as well. As Anne.K.Kroocksaid that,'Satire history is so called mixed genre, one that often incorporates a verity of diverse elements,within a single work.
This Blog-post is as a response of Assignment on three question which are given by our professor ma'am Vaidehi Hariyani. To know more about this this task,CLICK HERE.
The Rape of the Lock:
Alexander Pope, one of the very prominent figures from Neo-Classical Age in English Literature. The Rape of the Lock is mock-heroic narrative poem, published in 1712. It's based on a bit of true event, told by his friend John Caryll. Before start the answer, here I put the basic summary of this poem.
Answers are here:
1.) According to you, who is the protagonist of the play Clarissa or Belinda? Why? Give your answer with logical reasons.
I prefer to choose Belinda as the protagonist of the play. In this entire poem, central character is Belinda. Pope portrayed her as, in some negative role as the protagonist. As a reader we first have a sympathy towards Belinda, that how a poor girl she is. But, at the speech of Clarissa, we came to know more about her pride towards her beauty. Clarissa shows her self as a selfish kind of a women. Before her speech she sudden try to help her suitor. Here, Belinda is the character that what pope actually try to show, while Clarissa is not like that. She has some kind of complexity towards Belinda.
2.) What is beauty? Write your views about it.
As this GIF shows that you see very beautiful, whenever your face in any light. Exactly, what society expect from everyone, especially in woman's case.People wants to see us beautiful in anytime and in anywhere.Why we need this type of "LIGHT" to show our beauty? In this poem, Belinda has her own beauty, but the other has not, it's doesn't mean that they all are not beautiful. That means they all are beautiful, perhaps their inner beauty.
Here, I put one advertisement, for try to more clear this point.
In this soap advertisement, there is only one target is that 'Girls Beauty of Looking (Physically). This word Physically Appearanceis very highly problematic word or use by people for girls. In this video, every girls perhaps rejected by other people's taunt.Here, physical appearance being played main role in our lives rather than our virtues,self-dedication, inner strength, own dreams, own freedom towards our dreams and so many things.
According to my point of view, many of times, we need some attention from other people's. We need like Belinda that, for my this beauty people should praise my beauty. Our this deep needs perhaps make us very lower in front of our eyes. Which we can't see.
3.) Find out a research paper on "The Rape of the Lock". Give the details of the paper and write down in brief what does it say about the Poem by Alexander Pope.
I found one research paper from University of Delhi, Delhi, India, named,Dr. Meeta Mathur who is Associate Professor at
Department of English. Want to see this research paper, just CLICK HERE.
In Abstract, scholar introduced us Pope's this literary work, or also wrote about that is poem is based on a some true event on Miss Aabella Fermor and Lord Peter. Further he wrote that,pope has glorified the trivialities of the youth, the degeneration of society with prosperity unaccompanied by sensibility. He also mention literary terms,
Index Terms: mock epic, heroic, trivial, society, youth, parody, self-indulgence.
Mock-epic Heroic poem:
About Mock-epic poem: a dignified genre is put to witty use without being demeaning it in anyway.
Ironic parallels to familiar passages in Homer and Virgil.
A mock heroic poem
is a parody of an epic and not the ridicule of a literary form as some critics believe it to be.
the invocation of the muse, the proposition of the subject, the descriptions, the moralizing all aside, only the speeches and the battle are practically the only structural features that are modeled on the epic.
Scholar wrote about that, Pope was more concerned about Miss Fermor and Lord Peter rather than with Homer and Virgil.The game of ombre is dignified by several elaborate similes, such as the comparison of the scattering of cards to the dispersal of a routed army, as it is the battle of beau and belles. Agame of romps was never so well dignified before. The comparison drawn between sun and Belinda is quite paradoxical.Pope uses many periphrases and uncommon appellations for the scissors with which Lord Peter performs the rape – “two edg’d weapon”, “little engine”,“glittering forfex”,“fatal engine”, “sheers”, “meeting points”
This Blog-post is a response of a task on Romantic Literature, given by our professor ma'am Yesha Bhatt.
Ode to Duty by William Wordsworth:
What is Ode:
According to Merriam Webster dictionary,"a lyric poem usually marked by exaltation of feeling and style, varying length of line, and complexity of stanza forms"
"I am no longer good through deliberate intent, but by long habit have reached a point where I am not only able to do right, but am unable to do anything but what is right."(Seneca, Letters 120.10)
Stern Daughter of the Voice of God!
O Duty! if that name thou love
Who art a light to guide, a rod
To check the erring, and reprove;
Thou, who art victory and law
When empty terrors overawe;
From vain temptations dost set free;
And calm'st the weary strife of frail humanity!
There are who ask not if thine eye
Be on them; who, in love and truth,
Where no misgiving is, rely
Upon the genial sense of youth:
Glad Hearts! without reproach or blot;
Who do thy work, and know it not:
Oh! if through confidence misplaced
They fail, thy saving arms, dread Power! around them cast.
Serene will be our days and bright,
And happy will our nature be,
When love is an unerring light,
And joy its own security.
And they a blissful course may hold
Even now, who, not unwisely bold,
Live in the spirit of this creed;
Yet seek thy firm support, according to their need.
I, loving freedom, and untried;
No sport of every random gust,
Yet being to myself a guide,
Too blindly have reposed my trust:
And oft, when in my heart was heard
Thy timely mandate, I deferred
The task, in smoother walks to stray;
But thee I now would serve more strictly, if I may.
Through no disturbance of my soul,
Or strong compunction in me wrought,
I supplicate for thy control;
But in the quietness of thought:
Me this unchartered freedom tires;
I feel the weight of chance-desires:
My hopes no more must change their name,
I long for a repose that ever is the same.
Stern Lawgiver! yet thou dost wear
The Godhead's most benignant grace;
Nor know we anything so fair
As is the smile upon thy face:
Flowers laugh before thee on their beds
And fragrance in thy footing treads;
Thou dost preserve the stars from wrong;
And the most ancient heavens, through Thee, are fresh and strong.
To humbler functions, awful Power!
I call thee: I myself commend
Unto thy guidance from this hour;
Oh, let my weakness have an end!
Give unto me, made lowly wise,
The spirit of self-sacrifice;
The confidence of reason give;
And in the light of truth thy Bondman let me live!
Seven stanza of eight lines in ABABCCDD
included in second edition of Lyrical Ballad
published in 1800
According to Wordsworth's own statement, the “Ode to Duty” was modeled on Thomas Gray's “Hymn to Adversity,” which in turn was imitated from Horace's “Ode to Fortune.” The stanza is identical with that used by Gray, and there are resemblances in ideas and phraseology.
This Blog-post is a response of a task on Romantic Literature, given by our professor ma'am Yesha Bhatt.
“The best portion of a good man's life: his little, nameless unremembered acts of kindness and love.”
๐ฎWilliam Wordsworth๐ฎ
London,1802
MILTON! thou shouldst be living at this hour:
England hath need of thee: she is a fen
Of stagnant waters: altar, sword, and pen,
Fireside, the heroic wealth of hall and bower,
Have forfeited their ancient English dower
Of inward happiness. We are selfish men;
Oh! Raise us up, return to us again,
And give us manners, virtue, freedom, power!
Thy soul was like a Star, and dwelt apart;
Thou hadst a voice whose sound was like the sea:
Pure as the naked heavens, majestic, free,
So didst thou travel on life's common way,
In cheerful godliness; and yet thy heart
The lowliest duties on herself did lay.
This poem is written by Wordsworth which present eulogies of John Milton.Composed in 1802, "London, 1802" was published for the first time in Poems, in Two Volumes.
This sonnet is dedicated to John Milton by William Wordsworth. The speaker addresses the soul of the dead poet John Milton, saying that he should be alive at this moment in history, for England needs him. England, the speaker says, is stagnant and selfish, and Milton could raise her up again.
Literary Type: Petrarchan sonnet
Rhyme scheme :abba abba cdd ece
Written in : iambic pentameter
Written in 1802
The poem begins with the cry: “Milton!
the altar (representing religion),
the sword (representing the military),
the pen (representing literature),
the fireside (representing the home)has lost touch with “inward happiness,”
The speaker says that Milton could give England “manners, virtue, freedom, power,” for his soul was like a star, his voice had a sound as pure as the sea, and he moved through the world with “cheerful godliness,” laying upon himself the “lowest duties.”Here also we can see"she is a fen"that Wordsworth use metaphor for England as a Woman.
" The lowliest duties on herself did lay."
Last line described the humble nature of Milton,that how's pure Milton's heart was.
