LITERATURE GURU

  Critical Appreciation Of Journey Of the Magi                         Journey of the Magi is one of the Ariel poems of T.S Eliot. All the poems of this group embody different aspect of the experience of the rebirth, of the discovery of a new focus of existence. 'The meaning of the new birth is obscure, full of doubt, accompanied by pain, not joy and perplexing in the extreme."  This is particularly true of the poem Journey of the Magi. The poem opens with the account of the journey of the magi to Bethlehem where they would pay their respect to the newborn baby, Christ. The journey was full of hardship and hazards. They experienced difficulties which are narrated here by one of the Magi.                   The journey stands for a quest for the spiritual land- the death of the old and the birth of the new age. The difficulties are symbolic of the hurdles that lie ...

                                     Anglo-Saxon Prose                                                                                                                           Marks: 20                                                                                                                  ...

                        Character of Cassandra in Agamemnon                                                                            Aeschylus's main characters, though graphically drawn, show little development; they are too often exaggerated too extreme to be human. It has been said that they are vivid and magnificent but never realistic. His characters are typical in the sense that in most there is not much minute drawing of the details of the character. The characters nonetheless share the greatness of the issues which are worked out in their destiny. Cassandra, the daughter of Priam and Hecuba, was loved and bribed by Apollo. But her refusal rendered useless the gift of prophecy that Apollo had bestowed on her. The play Agam...

                        Role of Chorus in The Birds                                                                                                                                                                                The chorus in classical Greek drama was a group of actors who described and commented upon the main action of a play with song, dance, and recitation. The chorus consisted of between twelve and fifteen players who variously danced, sang and spoke their lines i...

                       Mrs. Dalloway as a Stream of Consciousness Novel                                 William James in his Principal of Psychology (1890) used the phrase "Stream of Consciousness" to describe the unknown flow of perception, thoughts, and feeling in the waking mind. It has since been adopted to describe a narrative method in non-dramatic modern fiction had its birth between 1913 to 1915. Virginia Woolf uses this narrative method in many of her novels and Mrs. Dalloway is not an exception. Let us in the following paragraphs see and show how Virginia Woolf's Mrs. Dalloway can be called a Stream of Consciousness Novel.                                     Virginia Wool's Mrs.  Dalloway   includes a   distinctive ...

                    Mrs. Dalloway as a Modern Novel                      Modernism implies  a clear stage  from the tradition,  pertaining to  some  variety of   separation , treating characters as "thinking"  people ,  accenting  the unconscious rather the outer, visible self. The substance of a  piece of writing characterized  as "modern"  is made  by imagination and internal thought processes, and a plot of such work becomes  a set  of incidents and their  impact  on the individual. In Mrs. Dalloway, the  author  creates  a contemporary novel   that  has  conjointly  most of the  options  of modernism. Created from  2  short stories, Mrs. Dalloway describes  on a daily basis   within the   lifetime of  his cen...