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Consider Chaucer as the Father of English poetry. Or Write a note on Chaucer's contribution to English poetry? or Chaucer is the earliest of the great moderns. Discuss

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  Chaucer’s contribution to English Poetry: Introduction:                 Chaucer has been acclaimed by common consent as the Father of English poetry.   He is also regarded as the earliest of the great moderns, for in the dark period of the Middle Ages, when the light of modernism had not yet been visible on the literary horizon, Chaucer went a long way in anticipating the modern taste and temperament.   At such a period he made notable contributions to English poetry.   Before Chaucer, poetry was narrow in outlook and hackneyed in delineation.   Other poets of hits age fixed their eyes on certain limited aspects suiting their own tastes.   For example Wycliff sang only of religious reformation, but Chaucer’s poetic eye covered the wide canvas of humanity.   People from all walks of life, leaving of course the highest and the lowest, came within the scope of his poetic deli...
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Write about Paradise Lost Book IX?

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                                    Essay about Paradise Lost Book IX                            Book IX of Paradise Lost is the most crucial one for understanding Milton’s presentation of the disobedience   and fall of man.   Even though he refers to man’s disobedience in the first line of the epic itself he deals with it only in Book IX.   In the preface to this book, Milton says that he has to perform a ‘sad task’ and change the ‘notes to tragic’ .   Yet he feels that his ‘argument’ is more heroic than the themes presented by Homer and Virgil in their epics.   The militant valour and glorification of man fighting on the battlefield does not appear as heroic to Milton.   Nor does Milton have much respect for the chivalrous type of heroism as presented in the romances of Ariosto and Spenser.   ...
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Critical appreciation of Derozio's poem "the Harp of India"

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  Critical Appreciation of Derozio’s poem “The Harp of India”                     This poem “ The Harp of India” mourns India’s loss of freedom to the British and hopes it would regain its past glory.   The harp is a musical stringed instrument, that Derozio uses to represent as India’s loss of art and literature.   The harp is left unplayed, because its strings are broken.   Even when there is a breeze that touches the instrument, it has no motion.   The ultimate use of an instrument is lost, there is no sound from it.   The instrument has been used by several poets in the past.   But now, it lays there like a statue, abandoned in a desert.   Many poets have become famous, by using harp in the past, in their poems.   The fame still exists through their network (poem) like fresh flowers that bloom in the poet’s grave.   Derozio ends the poem exclaiming...
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Critical Appreciation of the poem "The lonely road" by Man mohan Ghose

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  Critically appreciate the poem “The Lonely Road” written by Manmohan Ghose                          Manmohan Ghose was the first man in India to write poems in English.   He was the sibling of “Sri Aurobindo Ghose” and Barindra Kumar Ghose.   While his brother Aurobindo Ghose was writing on nationalistic theme, Manmohan Ghose turned to England for his inspiration.   Ghose’s poetry expresses his sorrow and sense of loneliness and is autobiographical in nature.                   In this poem “the Lonely Road” The poet is yearning for his motherland, by making England as his home.   His love and respect for his wife has inspired him to write two series of poems.   “Immortal love” and “Orphic mysteries”.   He addresses his beloved from whom he has derived inspiration. ...
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Critical appreciation of the poem "To India my Native land" by H.L Derozio

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  Critical Appreciation of the poem To India My Native land:                   Henry Lewis Vivian Derozio was born on April 18, 1809 in India.   He was a poet and Assistant Headmaster at Hindu college, Culcutta.   He was a radical thinker and one of the first Indian Educators to disseminate western leaving and science among the young men of Bengal.   He was the son of a Portuguese father and Indian mother.   Derozio was influenced by the Romantic poets.   He started publishing patriotic poems when   he was 17.   His writings brought him to the attemtion of the intellectual elite of Calcutta.   In the spirit of English Rationalism, Derozio criticized the social practices and religious belief of orthodox Hinduism.   Accused of irreverence b his student’s orthodox Hindu Parents he was forced to resign.   He died on December 23 rd 1831, due to Cholera. ...
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Critical Appreciation of the poem "Passport"

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  Critical Appreciation of the poem “Passport” By Mahmoud Darwish                     Mahmoud Darwish is a Palestininan poet many of his poem are translated by himself.   This poem “Passport” takes about how Palestinian are affected.   Especially, when they want to go to other country’s they come across many problems.   The speaker of the poem is the writer.           In the first stanza, the speaker tried to tell that he was in an airport and he handled his passport.   But they did not acknowledge or recognize him.   They even collected his photographs to be shown to the tourist.   It made the speaker so angry.             “They did not recognize me in the shadow             That suck away my colour in the passport ...
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Poem lines and critical appreciation of the poem Close to you

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    Poem lines Close to you : Close to you I have regained my name My name long hidden beneath the salt of distances I have regained eyes no longer veiled by fevers. And you laugh like a flame making holes in the dark Has given Africa back to me beyond the snows of yesterday Ten years of my love And marriage of illusion and wreckage of ideas. And sleep peopled with alcohol Ten years and the breath of the world has poured its Pain upon me Pain that loads the present with the flavour of Tomorrows And makes of love an immeasurable river Close to you I have regained the memory of my blood And necklaces of laughter around the days Days that sparkle with joys renewed.                                                ...
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