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...
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 p...
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 ...
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