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Introduction to Heart of Darkness Blackwood’s Magazine published Heart of Darkness as a novella in the nineteenth century. It was finally published in 1942 in the booking form as the third work in a compilation by Conrad. Heart of Darkness is one of the intense stories that expose the horrifying depths of human corruption and … Read more
John Donne was an English poet, a soldier, and a scholar. He was born on January 22, 1572, in London. His family was a recusant Roman Catholic, and at that time, that religion was illegal in UK. His father’s name was the same as him. Donne received his early education privately. He joined Hertford College, … Read more
Text of the Poem: The Little Black Boy My mother bore me in the southern wild, And I am black, but O! my soul is white; White as an angel is the English child: But I am black as if bereav’d of light. My mother taught me underneath a tree And sitting down before … Read more
Text of the Poem: A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning As virtuous men pass mildly away, And whisper to their souls to go, Whilst some of their sad friends do say The breath goes now, and some say, No: So let us melt, and make no noise, No tear-floods, nor sigh-tempests move; ‘Twere profanation of … Read more
The “Poetics” by Aristotle primarily deals with tragedy. Some aspects of tragedy in Poetics may be considered controversial or outdated but its contribution to the literature and influence on English literature is undebatable. According to Aristotle, Tragedy is the highest poetic form. He defined some parameters and rules to write a tragedy. He laid focus … Read more
Text of the Poem | The Solitary Reaper by Wordsworth Behold her, single in the field, Yon solitary Highland Lass! Reaping and singing by herself; Stop here, or gently pass! Alone she cuts and binds the grain, And sings a melancholy strain; O listen! for the Vale profound Is overflowing with the sound. No … Read more
Text of the Poem | Ode on a Grecian Urn Thou still unravish’d bride of quietness, Thou foster-child of silence and slow time, Sylvan historian, who canst thus express A flowery tale more sweetly than our rhyme: What leaf-fring’d legend haunts about thy shape Of deities or mortals, or of both, In Tempe or the … Read more
What is Grammar Translation Method? The grammar translation method is a language teaching method to learn a foreign language. GTM is derived from the classical/traditional method of teaching Greek and Latin. This method aims at studying and analyzing the grammatical rules of the target language. In this method, a practice of grammatical structures was carried … Read more
Poetics is one of the famous works by Aristotle. It is one of the important works on literary criticism produced ever but still it has some anomalies and defects. It looks that the treatise we have is might not the same as Aristotle wrote. The Poetics is apparently incomplete and lacks many subjects of its … Read more
Definition of Determiners There are major content words in English as nouns, verbs, adjectives and adverbs, and minor function words as pronouns, prepositions, conjunctions, determiners and Interjections. Determiners are minor function words in English language. Let us look at the definition of determiners and types of determiners. Determiners are the words that are placed before … Read more