Question: Consider The Rape of the Lock as a witty and humorous poem. Or, Discuss the wit and humour in The Rape of the Lock. Answer: Augustan Age or the Age of Pope was the great age of satire and ...
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How does Emerson show a similarity between the two precepts “know thyself”, and “study nature”?
Question: And in fine, the ancient precept, “know thyself”, and the modern precept “study nature”, become at last one maxim”. Elucidate. Or, How does Emerson come to the conclusion that the old precept “know thyself” and the modern precept “study ...
Discuss Tennyson as a representative poet of his age
Question: Discuss Tennyson as a representative poet of his age. Or, Show how Tennyson’s poetry deals with the social and religious problems of his age. Answer: Tennyson lived in an age in which a change was taking place in every ...
Let what is broken so remain. The gods are hard to reconcile;…Long labour unto aged breath
Explanation: Let what is broken so remain. The gods are hard to reconcile; Tis hard to settle order once again. There is confusion worse than death, Trouble on trouble, pain on pain Long labour unto aged breath. Answer: These lines ...
How sweet it were, hearing the downward stream, With half-shut eyes ever to seem, Falling asleep in a half-dream!
Explanation: How sweet it were, hearing the downward stream, With half-shut eyes ever to seem Falling asleep in a half-dream! Answer: These lines have been taken from the choric song of the poem “The Lotos Eaters” by Alfred Tennyson. Here ...
Hateful is the dark-blue sky, Vaulted o’er the dark-blue sea, Death is the end of life; ah, why Should life all labour be?
Explanation: Hateful is the dark-blue sky, Vaulted o’er the dark-blue sea, Death is the end of life; ah, why Should life all labour be? Answer: These lines have been taken from the choric song of the poem “The Lotos Eaters” ...
All its allotted length of days, The flower ripens in its place,…Fast-rooted in the fruitful soil.
Explanation: All its allotted length of days, The flower ripens in its place, Ripens and fades, and falls, and hath no toil, Fast-rooted in the fruitful soil.” Answer: These lines have been gleaned from the choric song of Alfred Tennyson’s ...
Why are we weigh’d upon with heaviness,…Still from one sorrow to another thrown:
Explanation: Why are we weigh’d upon with heaviness, And utterly consumed with sharp distress, While all things else have rest from weariness? All things have rest: why should we toil alone, We only toil, who are the first of things, ...
There is sweet music here that softer falls….Of shadowy granite, in a gleaming pass;
Explanation: There is sweet music here that softer falls Than petals from blown roses on the grass, Or night-dews on still waters between walls Of shadowy granite, in a gleaming pass; Answer. These lines have been gleaned from Alfred Tennyson’s ...
In the afternoon they came unto a land, In which it seemed always afternoon
Explanation: In the afternoon they came unto a land In which it seemed always afternoon. Answer: These lines have been quoted, from the poem “The Lotos Eaters” by Alfred Tennyson. Here the poet speaks of a strange land where the ...