Imagery Definition Imagery (ih-MUHJ-ree) is a literary device that allows writers to paint pictures in readers’ minds so they can more easily imagine a story’s situations, characters, emotions, and settings. A good way to understand imagery is to think of the word imagination. Writers form strong images by being specific and concrete and using language to appeal to …
Fantomina, first published in 1724, is a romance novella by English writer and actress Eliza Haywood. Its full title is Fantomina: or, Love in a Maze: Being a Secret History of an Amour Between Two Persons of Condition. Haywood, born Eliza Fowler, gained recognition for her literary works posthumously in the 1980s. Her sensationalistic romantic …
1. How does Gramsci most broadly define the term “intellectual”? In what sense does his interest in the intellectual point to a recalibration of Marxist notions about class and ideology? 2. What is the distinction between “traditional” and “organic” intellectuals? 3. Why do traditional intellectuals consider themselves relatively or even entirely free from the dominant …
Non Detailed:- ‘Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage’ by Lord Byron was published between 1812 and 1818. It’s a long narrative poem. It extends for 555 pages and 1674 lines in its full publication. Some consider the piece to be autobiographical. It certainly contributed to the image of Byron (George Gordon) as a wandering Romantic. It was likely inspired by …
Shelley was a true-born child of the French Revolution. The spirits of that revolution found its expression in Shelley’s poetry. But as a critic observes: “The greater rigour of his nature begot in him a passion for reform and a habit for rebellion which are the inspiration of his longer poems.”Throughout his life he dreamt …
Shelley is primarily a poet of love, as Keats is of beauty. The story of his life is, in fact, a story of love. But it has to be remembered that Shelley as a love poet is a complex phenomenon. For him love, is not the name of one particular feeling or thing. It is …
Love for Nature is one of the prerequisites of all the Romantics and Shelley is no exception. Love for Nature is one of the key-notes of his poetry. His poetry abounds in Nature imagery. ‘On Love’ reflects colourful Nature imagery and glorification of Nature. He shows fruition and fulfillment in his poems. Other poems e.g. ‘A Dream of the …
Shelley’s poetry is regarded as abstract, lacking the note of high seriousness and having nothing solid and substantial. That’s why Mathew Arnold referred to Shelley as “a beautiful and ineffectual angel, beating in the void his luminous wings in vain”. It is alleged that he cherishes fanciful ideals, weaves dreams and does not deal with real …
Cazamian detects: “Shelley’s lyricism is incomparable. In no other, do we find the perfect sureness, the triumphant rapidity of this upward flight, this soaring height, the super terrestrial quality as well as poignant intensity of the sounds which fall from these aerial regions. Truly, never was the soul of a poet so spontaneously lyrical”. Shelley lyrics …
