poems “Blessing” by Imtiaz Dharker and “Night of the scorpion” by Nissim Ezekiel, compare the culture of India through their choice of imagery and language. Imagery and language are useful techniques for a poet to use as it enables the reader to visualise and understand the themes and ideas of a piece of work more clearly. In “Blessing” the poet uses metaphorical language to create imagery and description, whilst relating it back to her culture. The language devices in “Night of the Scorpion” explore
COMMUNICATIVE ENGLISH (101) QUESTIONS BASED ON HIGHER ORDER THINKING SKILLS SECTION A RIGHT MENTAL ATTITUDE Thinking the right, positive way makes for success, happiness and a satisfying life. Negative way leads to failure, unhappiness and dissatisfaction. Many develop the way of thinking that others are watching them with a sharp and critical eye and disapproving them. It makes them shrink mentally and emotionally. The potential remains unused. Living to win others’ approval
answer you should consider the presentation of: the reasons why he has come to Umuofia; his life with Okonkwo and his family; his death. (b) With reference to extract 1 and elsewhere in the novel, show how the white missionaries destroy Umuofia’s way of life. In your answer you should consider the presentation of: the white men’s treatment of the elders of Umuofia in the extract; the massacre at Abame; the actions of the white missionaries elsewhere in the novel. (Use extract 1, printed in
Loeb classical series and me. I also made good use of the library of Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge, and I thank Gordon Hunt for his good offices there. The Humanities Center of UNH gave me a grant for a semester’s leave and an office in which to store unwieldy concordances and work in peace; its director Burt Feintuch and administrator Joanne Sacco could not have been more hospitable. For contributing ideas, quotations, references, and encouragement I also thank Ann and Warner Berthoff
But I believe that there is an advantage to be gained from concentrating on Auden's central reuvre: I have been able to give the space due to the works that the reader will wish to know most about, and I have been able to arrange the volume in such a way that it may conveniently be read in company with the Collected Shorter Poems (1966) and the Collected Longer Poems (1968).1 This simplification will, I hope, increase the book's usefulness. Auden's work falls into fairly well-defined periods, and I
Ph.D. Thesis Department of English Obafemi Awolowo University Ile-Ife The Poet, State and Poetics: A Cultural Materialist Reading of the Poetry of Agostinho Neto, Okot p’Bitek and Tanure Ojaide OLORUNLEKE, Ojo Olusegun ARP/07/08/R/0051 26th June 2012 Chapter 1: Introduction Chapter 2: A Review of Trends in the Criticism of Modern African Poetry Chapter 3: Repression, Resistance and Poetics
сведений и собственного материала по изучаемым явлениям. General Interpretation of imaginative literature is an important discipline, lying on the borderline between linguistic subjects and the study of literature. Another name for this course, which one may come across, is analytical reading. Text interpretation is designed to help a philologist gain as profound an understanding of a literary work as possible, derive its denotative (factual) and connotative (emotive, expressive, evaluative and
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a little regarding that capricious star which gleamed over the humble manger-bed of the Son of Man. Dark seas of blood have long since lapped that star of the morning into the crimson oblivion of day, whose empurpled strife has also rumbled into the distance as the droning of some drowsy fire-finger on the sleeping parchment of life, murmuring and moaning as the wind-kissed mouth of a dreamy drum. Yet why should we still listen for those subtle sounds which have wearily danced out their slow saraband
iHINO *IF Page 1 of 450 Sufisim, its Saints and Shrines (By (John A. Subman - 1938 A.D.) To William Paton and Murray Titus in grateful recognition of the fact that it was through their instrumentality that I undertook the special work in which i am now engaged. PREFACE At the very outset I desire to acknowledge with deep gratitude the invaluable assistance given to me by my revered friend and counsellor, Rev. L. Bevan Jones, Principal of the Henry Martyn School of Islam- ics, Lahore,