Critical Appreciation of Virtue critical appreciation of virtue G eorge Herbert is a metaphysical religious poet. He is a religious poet because he asserts his faith in Christian moral teaching to which he has given a poetic shape by virtue of his excellent poetic art as it is reflected in the simple poem "Virtue". He wrote one hundred and sixty such religious poems published under the title The Temple . Virtue is one of his religious poems. It is simple and sensuous. It is a short poem which has only sixteen lines. It is poured with Christian didacticism and has a deep ethical value. It expresses the serious contention of the permanence of virtue in the perishable world in which all earthly beautiful things are governed by the law of mortality. It rings with his absolute Christian faith and mortality of virtue. It stresses that it is a virtue that not only makes a soul virtu
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 Agamemnon would have been complete without the introduction of Cassandra but the play would have lacked the dramatic intensity without her presence. Let us in the following paragraphs see and show the dramatic significance of Cassandra in Agamemnon
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 in unison and sometimes wore a mask. According to A.N Sehgal, the chorus is "the ideal spectator" and conveys to "the actual spectator " a lyrical and musical expression of his own emotions and elevates him to the region of contemplation. In many Greek dramas, the chorus expresses to the audience what the main characters could not say, such as their hidden fears and secrets. They often provided other characters with the inside they needed. The chorus also prepared the audienc
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