Question — Essay-type Attempt a critical appreciation of Donne’s “The Anniversary”. In the field of love poetry, the contribution of the metaphysicals is considerable. When Donne appeared on the stage, Spenser and his followers were following the petrarchan tradition of sentimental love poetry. Donne’s treatment of love is entirely unconventional. His poems are the expression … Read more
The Retreat — Henry Vaughan Happy those early days! when I Shined in my angel infancy. Before I understood this place Appointed for my second race, Or taught my soul to fancy aught But a white, celestial thought; When yet I had not walked above A mile or two from my first love, And looking … Read more
Question — Essay-type How does Vaughan build up a contrast between childhood and adulthood in “The Retreat”? The central theme of Vaughan’s poem “The Retreat” is the glorification of childhood, based on the Platonic doctrine of the immortality of the soul which lives a ‘second race’ on earth. In childhood the soul is attended with … Read more
Regeneration – Henry Vaughan A ward, and still in bonds, one day I stole abroad; It was high spring, and all the way Promised and hung with shade; Yet was it frost within, And surely winds Blasted my infant buds, and sin Like clouds eclipsed my mind. Stormed thus, I straight perceived my springMere stage … Read more
The Retreat – Henry Vaughan Happy those early days! when I Shined in my angel infancy. Before I understood this place Appointed for my second race, Or taught my soul to fancy aught But a white, celestial thought; When yet I had not walked above A mile or two from my first love, And looking … Read more
Question : Essay-type Attempt a comparative study of ‘Regeneration’ and ‘The Retreat’. Vaughan’s poems– ‘The Retreat’ and ‘Regeneration’ are religious poems. Both of them suggest the poet’s faith in God, and ardent faith in His graciousness and in man’s afterlife. Both the poems, as has already been stated, suggest the poet’s faith in God. In … Read more
William Shakespeare : Sonnet 73 Sonnet 73 That Time Of Year Thou Mayst In Me Behold That time of year thou mayst in me beholdWhen yellow leaves, or none, or few, do hangUpon those boughs which shake against the cold,Bare ruin’d choirs, where late the sweet birds sang.In me thou see’st the twilight of such … Read more