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  Consider Eliot’s ‘Preludes’ as a modern poem. Sharply intellectual, remarkably unorthodox in attitude and style, and undoubtedly a pioneer Piece of modern English poetry Eliot’s ‘Preludes’ deserves and demands a careful study. The term ‘modernism’ in context of literature and art cannot be precisely defined, or confined to a fixed Notion. So far as modern or twentieth century English poetry is concerned, its first obvious Characteristic is abstruseness of thought, form and style. Modern poetry is primarily a revolt against the decadent romantic tradition of Georgian Poetry. The squalor, dinginess, and the sordidness of the urban civilization and The dehumanization, sexuality and spiritual hollowness of modern man --- all find an echo in modern Poetry. This unit will introduce you to T.S. Eliot’s poem, “Preludes”, as a Fragmentary poetic piece which took the poet four years to complete. A poem Consisting of fifty-four lines, “Preludes” reflects some of the perplexities that A p...

 Write a brief essay on the sentimental comedy. Sentimental comedy, a dramatic genre of the 18th century, denoting plays in which middle-class protagonists triumphantly overcome a series of moral trials. The sentimental comedy is a kind of drama that appeared in the early ears of the eighteenth. In the sentimental comedy, dramatic reality was sacrificed in an attempt to instruct through an appeal to the audience’s or the readers’ emotions. The characters were so good or so bad that they became caricatures. Virtues always triumphed in the sentimental comedy. The sentimental comedy paid greater attention to sentiment which may be regarded as emotion refined and regulated by a self-conscious moral sense.  The sentimental comedy is almost devoid of wit and humour and deals with domestic situation, the problems and suffering of the middle class people, who is above the pity and sympathy of the audience. It also deals with thwarted romance, which is, of course, set right in the lo...

  Contrasting elements of 'Innocence' and 'Experience' in Blake's poetry 'The Lamb' and 'The Tyger'.   William Blake followed his own maxim   that “without contraries is no progression” when in 1794 he published together his 'Songs of Innocence' and 'Songs of Experience' the form and manner of a single book and also described his 'Songs' in the title page as "Showing the Two Contrary States of the Human Soul". ( 2). The two sets of 'Songs'   are very different from each other in character, and accordingly does the poet group his verses under two main headings.   ‘The Lamb' ( from 'Songs of Innocence') and 'The Tyger’( from 'Songs of Experience') are both representative poem of Blake. They celebrate two contrary states of human soul – innocence and experience. The 'Songs of Innocence' professes an imaginative vision of the state of innocence; the 'Songs of Experien...

 Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe in Bengali summary               CHINUA ACHEBE ( 1930- 2013) ১৯৩০ সালের ১৬ই নভেম্বর  চিনুয়া আচেবি জন্মগ্রহণ করেন। তার লেখার মাধ্যমে আমরা আফ্রিকার কালো মানুষদের ওপর সাদা চামড়ার মানুষদের অত্যাচার ও নিপীরন খুঁজে পাই। তিনি ছিলেন মূলত একজন নাইজেরিয়ান লেখক। তিনি নিজেও একজন কালো চামড়ার মানুষ হওয়ায় নানান স্থানে বঞ্চিত হন। এমনকি তার লেখার মাধ্যমে সে সমস্ত দিক গুলি সুস্পষ্টভাবে ফুটে উঠেছে।  তবে তিনি কখনোই হার মেনে নেননি। তার বেশিরভাগ জীবন  কেটেছে যুক্তরাষ্ট্রের ব্রাউন বিশ্ববিদ্যালয়ে অধ্যাপনা করে। চাকরি জীবনে তিনি নাইজেরিয়ার ব্রডকাস্ট সার্ভিসে কাজ শুরু করেন। বিশ্ববিদ্যালয়ের ছাত্র থাকাকালে তার লেখালেখি শুরু হয়। লেখক হিসাবে চিনুয়া আচেবি আফ্রিকা এবং পশ্চিমের দেশগুলির মধ্যে সেতুবন্ধন হিসাবে কাজ করেছিলেন। ১৯৫৮ সালে প্রকাশিত প্রথম উপন্যাস 'থিংস ফল অ্যাপার্ট' এর সুবাদে ব্যাপক পরিচিত লাভ করেছিলেন তিনি। মজার কথাাা এই যে  এই উপন্যাসটি  অনুবাদ হয়েছে ৫০ টিরও বেশি ভাষায়। তাছাড়া, বিশ্বজুড়ে উপন...

Robinson Crusoe Robinson Crusoe as a Travel novel Written by Sourav  Subscribe my YouTube channel Sourav Omnibus Travel literature of the eighteenth century was grounded on the act of journeying and the narrative format of the everyday Englishman stranded in a foreign land. It was felt that a man’s surroundings were what shaped his character. At the time trade was being expanded and more territory was being opened up abroad, influencing the travel narrative in terms of the themes it dealt with. It is nearly impossible to discuss the eighteenth century fiction and nonfiction without speaking of travel. Its protagonists’ journeys so often give impetus and form to their stories. The travels of Robinson Crusoe, Moll Flanders, Joseph Andrews and Tom Jones, Tristram Shandy come to mind when we speak about the eighteenth century English Literature. The spirit of the eighteenth century could best be seen in travel literature. English people began to travel throughout Europe for self-disco...

This Blog is written by Sourav Das - www.YouTube.com/Souravomnibus Subscribe my YouTube channel Sourav Omnibus for English literature.  Some aspects of Indianess as reflected in Nissim Ezekiel's 'Night of the Scorpion' and 'Goodbye Party for Miss Pushpa T.S.' and A.K. Ramanujan's 'Ecology'.  ‘Night of the Scorpion' is one of the finest poems of Nissim Ezekiel and has been universally admired , for its admirable depiction of a common Indian situation , for its vivid and forceful imagery , for its bringing together of opposite , for it’s ironic contrasts , and for the warmth of human love and affection. It should that Ezekiel is a very Indian poet, rooted in the Indian soil ,and actually aware of the common human situation of  Indian life. The poet's mother stung by a scorpion is given multiple treatment, bringing in its sweep the world of magic and superstition, science , rationality and material affection. Let us begin by reading the poem. 'N...