Theme of The Waste Land ‘The Waste Land’ is primarily concerned with the theme of barrenness in the mythical 20th century wasteland. The earth having lost its fertility, and nothing of use can grow there; animals and cultures have forgotten ...
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Discuss “The Prelude” As An Autobiographical Poem
The BrainyNote TeamINTRODUCTION William Wordsworth, the greatest poet of the 19th century Romantic Revival, wrote The Prelude, a long autobiographical poem in fourteen books, in 1800, when he was thirty years old and at the height of his poetic talent. If Matthew ...
Locate Chaucer’s Prologue to the Canterbury Tales within his vast writing career, as a social commentary of the age
The BrainyNote TeamChaucer’s preface to the Canterbury Tales within his vast writing career, as a social commentary of the age, is the first work of these opening lines to provide a physical setting and thus an inspiration for the Canterbury pilgrimage. Chaucer’s ...
What do you understand by the term renaissance? Examine Spenser’s Prothalamion as an example of both renaissance writing as well as a nuptial song
The BrainyNote TeamWhat is renaissance The Renaissance, (French: “rebirth”) was organized in European civilization shortly after the Middle Ages and traditionally characterized by an increase in interest in classical scholarship and values. Renaissance writing as an example of Renaissance writing is also ...
Examine any one poem by Donne or Herbert or Marvel as an example of metaphysical poetry
The BrainyNote TeamSpiritual poetry The term “metaphor,” for seventeenth-century English and continental European poets, was employed by Augustan poets Dryden and Johnson to repeal those poets for their “unnaturalness”. As Johann Wolfgang von Goethe wrote, “unnatural, that too is natural,” and thus ...
Critically examine Blake’s Songs of Innocence and Songs of Experience as precursors of the Romantic Age
The BrainyNote TeamBlake’s Songs of Innocence and Songs of Experience as precursors of the romantic era. Blake’s Songs of Innocence and Songs of Experience as forerunners of the Romantic Era Poet, painter, printmaker and visionary Blake worked to bring about a change ...
Who were the Pre- Raphaelites? Critically appreciate any one poem of this age/movement and highlight the characteristics of the movement
The BrainyNote TeamWho were the Pre-Raphaelites? Critically appreciate any poem from this age / movement and highlight the characteristics of the movement. Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood, a group of young British painters who banded together in 1848 in reaction to what they saw as ...