Paper 6 Comparison between "Oliver Twist" & "Slumdoge Millionaire"

Poem : A Prayer for my Daughter by W B Yeats

Hello Readers, Here I'm going to share poem which is written by William Butler Yeats. ◆ Introduction :- 'A Prayer for my Daughter' is a poem written by William Butler Yeats in 1919 & published in 1921 as a part of Yeats collection, 'Michael Roberts and the Dancer.' This poem is written for Anne, his daughter. This poem was written during the Anglo-Irish war, after 2 days of Anne's birth. He was an Irish poet and one of the foremost figures of 20th century Literature. This poem contains 10 stanzas of 8 lines each. Each stanza has its own importance in this poem. ◆ A Prayer for My Daughter :- The poem starts with the description of his daughter, as she was sleeping in a cradle, cradle here symbolized for protection, storm symbolized as difficult time of our life as he started poem,.... " Once more the storm is howling, and half hid Under this cradlehood and coverlid. My child sle...

The Archetypes of Literature.... Northrop Frye

Northrop Frye, in full Herman Northrop Frye, Canadian educator and critic who wrote much on "Canadian Literature" and culture and became best known as one of the most important literary theorists of the 20th century. 1.What is Archetypal Criticism? What does the Archetypal critic do? In literary Criticism the term " archetype" denotes recurrent narratives designs, patterns of actions, character- type, themes & images which are identifiable in a wide variety of works of literature, as well as in myths, dreams and even social rituals. Such recurrent items are held to be the result of elemental & universal forms or patterns in the human psyche, whose effective embodiment in a literary work evokes a profound response from the attentive reader, because he or she shares the psychic archetypes expressed by the author. 2.What is Frye trying to prove by giving an analogy of "Physics to Nature" & "Criticism to Literature"? Northrop...

Conflict between Tradition and Modernity in “ The Swamp Dwellers”.

Name: Vidhya Pandya Semester: MA – 4 Roll No: 30 Paper No:-14 The African Literature Enrolment No: 2069108420190031 Email id: vidhupandya10497@gmail.com Year: 2018 -20 Submitted to: Department of English , Maharaja Krishnakumarsinhji Bhavnagar University. Assignment Topic : Conflict between Tradition and Modernity in “ The Swamp Dwellers”. Words : 1550 ● Introduction : " Don't take shadows too seriously, Reality is your only safety, Continue to reject illusion." - Wole Soyinka. “ The Swamp Dwellers” is the play which is written by African writer Wole Soyinka and was published in 1958. Soyinka is a writer from,Nigeria and he was first African to be honored with Nobel Prize, winning 1986 Novel Prize in Literature. He also active in politics during Nigeria's struggle for independence. ● The Swamp Dwellers : In this play , “The Swam...

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