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A Brief Overview of Sidney's LOVING IN TRUTH from His ASTROPHEL AND STELLA

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  INTRODUCTION- Sir Philip Sidney's Loving In Truth is a poem of true-love which is taken from his Astrophel And Stella series. Let us dive into the Astrophel And Stella at first to understand the poem Loving In Truth better.  Astrophel And Stella is Sir Sidney's celebrated sonnet-series that comprises 108 sonnets and 11 songs , depicting Sidney's love for Penelope whom he could not marry. The sonnets are addressed by Astrophel and they deal with his love for Stella. The poet himself is the  lover Astrophel and his ladylove Penelope is Stella of the sonnet-series.       The sonnet-series gives a more or less connected theme of Sydney's courtship with Penelope. The earlier sonnets describe the growth of his passion for her , his inner conflict between will and wit, passion and reason, and his firm conviction of his profound love for her-"Yet true that I must Stella love". There is the further development of the sequence and the lover is assured of the love of S

ISLAND: Huxley's Counterpart of His BRAVE NEW WORLD

  ISLAND : Huxley’s counterpart of his BRAVE NEW WORLD Abstract                         Aldous Huxley, one of the prominent English writers of all time, whose Brave New World is a dystopian science fiction. The impacts of World War I and the tension of forthcoming World War II are clearly perceptible in this novel. Huxley disclosed the contemporary English society of his time through his novel Brave New World . But it was not the end. He countered his own novel Brave New World as he composed Island , the utopian counterpart of his dystopian Brave New World . This paper attempts to find how two novels of Huxley – Brave New World and Island counter each other. Keywords : Utopia, Dystopia, Existentialism, Socialism, Marxism, Neo-Colonialism Introduction                            Aldous Huxley, one of the prominent English writers of all time, whose Brave New World is a dystopian science fiction. H.G. Wells’ The Invisible Man or George Orwell’s 1984 are similar to

William Shakespeare's Sonnet 18

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"Shall I Compare thee to a Summer's Day"                           by William Shakespeare About The Author:- William Shakespeare is one of the greatest poets (and playwrights) of English Literature. Although, the world knows little of the personal life of this great man. Stevens has justly observed on this point :- "All that is known with any degree of certainty concerning Shakespeare is that he was born at Stratford upon Avon- married and bad children there- went to London,where he commenced actor, and wrote poems and plays- returned to Stratford,made his will, died and was buried." William Shakespeare, the third child of John and Mary Shakespeare, was born on 23rd April,1564 in the little village of Stratford upon Avon in Warwickshire.His study was hampered because of the pecuniary difficulties of his family. He was sent to Stratford Grammar School but soon he joined his father's business in order to help the family. He was soon pressed into a hast

"Crow's Fall" by Ted Hughes

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Analysis of Hughes's "Crow's Fall":                                                                           Crow's Fall When Crow was white he decided the sun was too white. He decided it glared much too whitely. He decided to attack it and defeat it. He got his strength up flush and in full glitter. He clawed and fluffed his rage up. He aimed his beak direct at the sun's centre. He laughed himself to the centre of himself And attacked. At his battle cry trees grew suddenly old, Shadows flattened. But the sun brightened— It brightened, and Crow returned charred black. He opened his mouth but what came out was charred black. "Up there," he managed, "Where white is black and black is white, I won.".                                                                                              About the Author:-  Ted Hughes was an English poet and he was born in 1930; he received his formal e