Enam's Note

  " No Second Troy " by William Butler Yeats, a great Irish poet, is poem about the love relationship between the poet and Maud Gonne , devastatingly beautiful Irish woman. It is one of the great literary love stories of the 20th century. The poem hints that how an alluring dazzling beauty can cause a devastating massive distraction with the reference to Helen of Troy, from the Iliad and the Aeneid . Now we will critically look into the poem. Before discussing the poem, let us have a look at the background of the poem. Yeats, in fact, published the poem in 1916 in the collection “ Responsibilities and Other Poems” , after he had already proposed to Gonne; and been rejected on numerous occasions. Yeats was obsessed with her and pursued her for over a decade and dedicated many of his poems to her. In this poem, however, Yeats's attitude is somewhat harsh, as he compares Gonne with the infamously beautiful and notoriously mi...

     Write an essay on the use of imagery in Keats’ ‘Ode on a Grecian Urn’ Johan Keats, (1795-1821) a great word painter of Romantic era, in “ Ode on a Grecian Urn ”, conveys his philosophy about art, beauty and life to the readers with colourful and intense imagery. So the poem is notable for its profoundly persuasive imagery taken from nature. Now we are going to discuss it in our following discussion.              Before entering into the discussion, we are to know what the imagery is. Imagery is the collective form of image and suggests the total picture produced by the images. The word image has derived from the Latin word ‘ imago ’ which means ‘ likeness ’. An image is, therefore, likeness of something. In other words , it is basically the picture of a particular thing . In literature, pictures are drawn with words. So Spurgeon defines it as ‘ picture in words’ . Let us now cast our eyes over various imag...

 What is dramatic monologue? Evaluate Robert Browning's  “My Last Duchess” as a Dramatic Monologue “My Last Duchess” is a fantastic dramatic monologue comp osed by a great Victorian poet Robert Robert Browning . A dramatic monologue, traditionally, includes lyrical strain, abrupt beginning, single speaker, silent listener, psychological analysis and clues to suggest what the silent listener says or does . Now we will see how the poem contains all these elements of a dramatic monologue. The poem begins with the dramatic suddenness : “That’s my last Duchess painted on the wall, Looking as if she were alive.” The readers can understand that the event has begun earlier.  But the poem begins from the middle to make the start dramatic.  As the poem progress, it becomes clear that only a single person speaks . The speaker is the Duke of Ferrara talking about his dead duchess’ portrait painted by Fra Pandlof. At several points of the poem, it b...

·         Analyze Robert Harrick as a Cavalier poet with reference to the poem ‘Delight in Disorder’. ·         Describe the poetic style of the poem ‘Delight in Disorder’ by Herrick. ·         Give a critical appreciation of the poem ‘Delight in Disorder’. ·         How does the poet find delight in disorder? Discuss.  ‘Delight in Disorder’ is an exquisite poem of English literature by the Cavalier poet Robert Herrick (1591-1674).The poem attracts the heart of every reader by its lyrical quality and harmonious end rhyme. In the poem, the poet expresses his feelings of extreme happiness derived from the disordered dress of a woman. Now we are going to discuss……….. Let us now discuss the ‘ Cavalier Poet’ . Actually the world “Cavalier’ derived from ‘ Carolus ’, the Latin version of Charles. The reign of Charles I (1...