What is Literature? Definition of Literature | English Literature

Definitions of Literature

What is Literature? What is Literature? The word ‘Literature’ is a modified form of a Latin word (literra, litteratura or litteratus) that means ‘writing formed with letters’. Let us look at what is literature in definition. Literature can be any written work, but it especially is an artistic or intellectual work of writing. It is one of … Read more

Ecclesiastical / Religious Characters in Canterbury Tales

Religious Characters in Canterbury Tales

Chaucer depicted a range of religious characters to portray the image of Christianity during that time. During Middle Age, church was in power and all the ecclesiastical characters were dominant in the society. At the same time, there was corruption in the church where these ecclesiastical were involved, but few were struggling for the true … Read more

Download Free PDF Book Parts of Speech

Download pdf book parts of speech free from here Parts of Speech Definition and Types of Noun Definition and Types of Pronoun Definition and Types of Verb Definition and Types of Adverb Definition and Types of Adjective Definition and Types of Preposition  Definition and Types of Conjunction Definition and Types of Interjection  Definition and Types … Read more

Summary and Analysis of “The Tiger” (The Tyger)

The Tyger (The Tiger) by William Blake

Text of the Poem The Tiger (The Tiger) Tyger Tyger, burning bright,In the forests of the night;What immortal hand or eye,Could frame thy fearful symmetry? In what distant deeps or skies.Burnt the fire of thine eyes?On what wings dare he aspire?What the hand, dare seize the fire? And what shoulder, & what art,Could twist the … Read more

Summary and Analysis of “Mending Wall” by Robert Frost

Summary and Analysis of Mending Wall by Robert Frost

Introduction to the Poem Mending Wall Mending Wall, a beautiful depiction of human life in the form of poetry, is about the distances that we create, the walls that we build. The walls which overburdens us with the passage of time but we still stick to it, the wall which needs to be broken down. … Read more

Summary and Analysis of “Go and Catch a Falling Star”

Analysis of Go and Catch a Falling Star

Text of the Poem | Go and Catch a Falling Star Go and catch a falling star, Get with child a mandrake root, Tell me where all past years are, Or who cleft the devil’s foot, Teach me to hear mermaids singing, Or to keep off envy’s stinging, And find What wind Serves to advance … Read more

Phonetics and Branches of Phonetics

Branches of phonetics

What is Phonetics? Phonetics is the scientific study of language sounds. It does not study an individual language; rather it studies language sounds in general. It is one of the important branches of linguistics, which deals with the study of speech sounds. Phonetics is concerned with the nature of language and communication. Phonetics is pronounced … Read more

Summary & Analysis of “The Painter” By John Ashbery

Summary and Analysis of The Painter By John Ashbery

Introduction to the Poem | “The Painter” The Painter by John Ashbery is a beautiful literary work published is 1956. It is one of the finest pieces of art in English literature. The poem basically describes the communal and traditional beliefs of the society, because of which they cannot accept change and have put restrictions … Read more

Summary & Analysis of Daffodils by William Wordsworth

Summary and Analysis of Daffodils by William Wordsworth

Text of the Poem | Daffodils by William Wordsworth I wandered lonely as a cloud That floats on high o’er vales and hills, When all at once I saw a crowd, A host, of golden daffodils; Beside the lake, beneath the trees, Fluttering and dancing in the breeze.   Continuous as the stars that shine … Read more