TEARS IDLE TEARS:LORD ALFRED TENNYSON

The poem Tears Idle Tears is a philosophical and tragic poem composed by the greatest Victorian poet of England, Alfred Lord Tennyson.In this poem,the poet gives an account of tears, their origin in our hearts and its comparison to different objects of nature.According to the poet,tears are the product heavenly sorrow at the loss of some friend or some tragic incident of life.Whenever we recall the death of a neat friend  tears come up in our eyes from the heart and dazzle like the first ray of the sun that falls up n the boat.The poet...

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SPARROW BY K. A. ABBAS

               CRITICAL NOTE ON K.A.ABBAS'S ART AND                    TECHNIQUE AS A STORY WRITER    The story,Sparrows,written by K.A.Abbas is remarkable for his art and neat characterization.This writing,particularly short-stories usually deal with the themes of poverty,peasantry and rural life. Starting his career as a journalist in which...

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THE RIVALS:Main Lines

GET READY FOR AN EXCITING CAREER IN MODELLING AND ACTING                                        EXPLANATION I do not mean to distress you.—If I lov'd you less, I should never give you an uneasy mo∣ment.—But hear me.—All my fretful doubts arise from this—Women are not used to weigh, and separate the motives of their affections:—the cold dictates...

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The Rivals And Its Some Favourite Lines

                                EXPLANATION"  There, Sir Anthony, there sits the deliberate simpleton,who wants to disgrace her family and lavish herself on a fellow not worth a shilling." Answer:- In this passage taken from 'The Rivals' written by R. B. Sheridan,Mrs. Malaprop is speaking to Sir Anthony Absolute about her niece,Lydia Languish camping at Bath a famous health resort for the affluent,upper class people.Sir.Anthony Absolute and his son Captain...

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THE RIVALS AND THE LINES OF FAULKLAND

                                    EXPLANATION O! upon my soul, I never have;—but what grounds for apprehension did you say? Heavens! are there not a thousand! I fear for her spirits—her health—her life.—My absence may fret her; her anxiety for my return, her fears for me, may oppress her gentle temper. And for her health—does not every hour bring me cause to be alarmed? If it rains, some shower may even then have chilled her delicate frame!—If the wind...

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THE UNIVERSITY WITS

                THE EARLY ELIZABETHAN DRAMA The university wits/or Pre-Shakespearean Drama/or the drama of Predecessors of Shakespeare or The Early Elizabethan Drama (Elizabethan's Reign 1558-1603) or the pay of Marlowe. The Pre-Shakespearean Drama is mainly the drama written by the university wits.In the second half of the 16th century,that is,between 1550-1590,a group of English writers who had university degrees chose to write plays for English theatre. Before the university wits,there existed...

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The Rivals: Explanation

                                    Explanation By heavens:I shall forswear your company. You are the most teasing,captious,incorrigible love! - Do love like a man.                                                         OR Am not I a lover; aye, and a romantic one too? Yet do I carry every where with...

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The Rivals And The Character Of Mrs. Malaprop

                                            MRS. MALAPROP         A TYPICAL REPRESENTATIVE OF 18TH CENTURY UPPER CLASS Of all female characters in The Rivals written by Sheridon, Mrs Malaprop's character is the most important,interesting and amusing. She is an elderly lady and a widow. She is the aunt of Lydia Languish. But, as Lydia Languish is still a minor girl, she is in the charge and care of her aunt, Mrs Malaprop. Mrs.Malaprop...

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THE RIVALS BY R. B. SHERIDON

                PLOT CONSTRUCTION OR SIGNIFICANCE OF THE RIVALS The Rivals written by Sheridon is a comic treatment of the theme of love of the hero and the heroine-Caption Absolute and Lydia Languish. They are modelled after the Jonsonian type called the comedy of humours. There is no suggestion of Shakespeare reminiscence here, but the empress of Jonson and of Congrive is amply apparent. The name given to many of the persons such as Sir Lucius O! Triggar ,Sir Anthony Absolute and Lydia Languish...

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THE MAYOR OF CASTERBRIDGE

               HARDAY'S VIEWS OF LIFE IN THE MAYOR OF CASTERBRIDGE  While reading Harday's novel like Tess Jude The Obscure,The Woodlanders and The Mayor Of Casterbridge, one faces the inevitable question- what is Harday's view of life? To this question one may answer that it is futile to seek for any coherent systematic philosophy of life in Harday's novel or in any novels presenting a study in the character and situation of human life. For philosophy generally has a root in religion and...

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Edward II Explanation

                                       LINES FROM EDWARD II  "My heart is as an anvil unto sorrow, Which beats upon it like the Cyclops hammers, And with the noise turns up my giddy brain. And makes me frantic for my Gaveston.                                                              ...

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EDWARD II :A RENAISSANCE ELEMENT

             EDWARD II IS A TYPICAL PRODUCT OF ENGLISH RENAISSANCE Renaissance is a French word employing a sense of rebirth of regenerations of a great outburst of activity in all the fields of human thought and action.As A.J. Wyatt and A.S.Collins observe; "The new slant was in critical in revolt against authority men started to think for themselves, and to question accepted beliefs. Above all, there was in the air a fresh enthusiasm which urged men to enter into every field of experience." In English...

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History Of Indian Cinema

History of Indian Cinema The first time the Indian  audience was introduced to cinema was when the Lumiere Brothers came from France  to present six soundless short films. The screening took place at the Watson Hotel on 7 July on 1896. However, the first experiment with film by an Indian was the production of two short films of Save Dada who exhibited them with the help of Edison’s kinetoscope. Cinema as a new entertainment from, however, took its first steps in India in the 1900's and in less than...

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