phoenix of literature

  ENGLISH LITERATURE WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE : 8 Sonnets Collection for PGTRB EXAM  First 8 lines of sonnet is called Octave.  Next 6 lines of sonnet is called Sestet.  Commonly we have 3 types of sonnets: Italian or Petrarchan Sonnet English or Shakespearean Sonnet Spenserian Sonnet  Fathers of English sonnet are:       Thomas Wyatt and Earl of Surrey.  Total sonnets has written by Shakespeare - 154 sonnets It was Published in 1609. The printer of Shakespeare sonnet are TT ( THOMAS THORPE)  Dedicated to 'Mr. W. H'  The first 126 sonnets are addressed to unnamed youth or young man.  Another 28 sonnets are addressed to Dark Lady .         SONNET 18: SHALL I COMPARE THEE TO A SUMMER’S DAY? Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day? Thou art more lovely and more temperate: Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May, And summer’s lease hath all too short a date; Sometime...

Q & A on Andrew Marvell's Poem " To his Coy Mistress " 1) The poem " To his Coy Mistress " Was written in the year of _________. Ans: 1650. 2) The poem " To his Coy Mistress " Was originally published in the year of __________. Ans: 1681. 3) What was the Phrase used in this poem?  Ans: carpe diem.  4) The Phrase carpe diem was taken  from?  Ans: Latin.  5) What is the meaning of the phrase carpe diem?  Ans: " Seize the day". 6) Whom did already used this phrase carpe diem in his work?  Ans: Greek poet Horace used this phrase in his ode.  7) Who is Andrew Marvell?  Ans: He was an English metaphysical poet, satirist and politician.  8) What is the concept of the poem" To his Coy Mistress "?  Ans: An unnamed lover or speaker tries to convince his mistress for love making.  9) Where did speaker's coy mistress find rubies?  Ans: The speaker's coy mistress found rubies on Indian Ganges.  10) Where did the sp...

  Q&A on William Shakespeare’s “The Merchant of Venice” PART – I "ALL THE WORLD'S A STAGE AND ALL THE MEN AND WOMEN MERELY PLAYERS"                           - WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE   1.       The Merchant of Venice was published in the year of --------------. Ans: 1600. 2.       This play tests the quality of ------------. Ans: Greed versus Mercy and Compassion. 3.       This play shows the conflict between --------------. Ans: Christianity and Judaism. 4.       This play expressed the important themes of -----------. Ans: Greed, Mercy, Revenge, Love, Justice, Friendship etc… 5.       Which play of Christopher Marlowe inspired Shakespeare to write “The Merchant of Venice”? Ans: “The Jew of Malta”. 6.       Who is the protagonist of this play? Ans: Antonio. 7. ...

     “The King and the Queen”             -Rabindranath Tagore Kings are never without flatterers to seduce them, ambition to deprive them and desires to corrupt them.                        - Plato   “The King and the Queen” was written by Rabindranath Tagore. He was a Bengali playwright, philosopher, writer, poet, painter, educationist, social reformer etc... He got Nobel Prize in literature in 1913 for his collection of poems ‘Gitanjali’. He is known as the “Bard of Bengali” because of his huge contribution in Bengal literature. His themes are mostly based on God, divinity, women’s suffering, beauty of nature and the connection between human and nature. He praises the almighty god and Mother Nature in most of his works. This play has two acts. It was published in the year of 1889. Act I begins with the conversation between the King Vikram and the Queen Sumitra in the palac...

  “The Raven”                                - Edgar Allan Poe KNOWLEDGE SPEAKS, BUT WISDOM LISTENS                                  - JIMI HENDRIX Edgar Allan Poe was an American writer, editor, poet and literary critic.  He got involved in writing at his young age and he was written on the themes of mystery, secret and investigation. In his writings his lady love named Lenore plays an important role. His writings expressed isolation and loneliness in life because he felt lonely all his lifetime and lead his life in isolation. He wrote the poem “Raven” as his autobiographical work . This poem expressed gloomy and thrilling effect and written on the genre of Gothic narrative poem. It shows the themes of death and the afterlife, memory and loss, the supernatural and the subconscious, rationality and irrat...