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  Sea Fever 1) Who wrote the poem ā€˜Sea Feverā€™? Ans:- John Masefield wrote the poem ā€™Sea Feverā€™. 2) What was the favourite place of the poet?  Ans:- To see the sea was the favourite place of the poet.  3) What do you mean by steer?  Ans:- Steer means to control the direction of movement.  4) What was the colour of mist on the seaā€™s face?  Ans:- The colour of the mist was grey.  5) What thing did not the poet deny?  Ans:- The poet can not deny the call of running tide.  6) Write the name of Sea-bird?  Ans:- Sea-gull is the name of a sea-bird.  7) Who wants to live a gypsy life?  Ans:- The poet wants to become a gypsy life.  8) Write the name of the sea-animal?  Ans:- Whale, a name of the sea-animal.  9) What do you mean by whetted knife? Ans:- Whetted knife means sharpened knife.  10) What kind of day does the poet prefer for siling?  Ans:- The poet prefers va...

Some Important Facts

              Some Important Facts
ā—¼D.H.Lawrence called one of his novels Kangaroo as ā€œThought Adventure".

ā—¼The phrase ā€˜religion of the blood' is associated with D.H.Lawrence.

ā—¼A character in Virginia Woolfā€™s novel Orlando changes his sex. Charles II is characterised in this novel.

ā—¼A woman's search for a fitting mate is the central theme of Bernard Shaw's Man and Superman.

ā—¼ā€˜Chocolate cream hero' appears in Shawā€™s Arms and the Man.

ā—¼The phrase 'Don Juan in Hell' occurs in Shawā€™s Man and Superman.

ā—¼Prostitution is the central theme of Shaw's Mrs. Warren's Profession.

ā—¼Labour and Capital conflict is the central theme of Galsworthyā€™s Strife.

ā—¼"The law is what it is -a majestic edifice sheltering all of us, each stone of which rests on another." These lines occur in Galsworthyā€™s Justice.

ā—¼Bernard Shaw was awarded the Nobel Prize in 1925.

ā—¼Joseph Conrad's novels are generally set in the background of the sea.

ā—¼Rudyard Kipling wrote the poem ā€œ Ifā€

ā—¼The term 'Stream of consciousness' was first used by William James.

ā—¼The terms 'Inscape' and 'Instress' are associated with Hopkins.

ā—¼Sprung Rhythm' was originated by Hopkins.

ā—¼T .S. Eliot called 'Hamlet' an artistic failure.

ā—¼The World Within World is an autobiography of Stephen Spender.

ā—¼G. B. Shaw said, "For art's sake alone I would not face the toil of writing a single sentenceā€.
ā—¼Aldous Huxley borrowed the title ā€˜Brave New Worldā€™ from Shakespeareā€™s The Tempest.

William Morris is the author of The Earthly Paradise.

ā—¼T S Eliot was believed to be "a classicist in literature, royalist in politics and anglo-catholic in religionā€.

ā—¼Virginia Woolf was the founder of the Bloomsbury Group, a literary club of England.

ā—¼George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty ā€“ Four and Aldous Huxley's Brave New World are prophetic novels.

ā—¼Plato said, ā€˜Art is twice removed from reality'.

ā—¼Plato proposed in his Republic that poets should be banished from the ideal Republic.

ā—¼Five principal sources of Sublimity are there according to Longinus.

ā—¼In Dryden's Essay of Dramatic Poesy there are four speakers representing four different ideologies. Neander expresses Dryden's own views.

ā—¼Dr. Johnson called Dryden 'the father of English criticism'

ā—¼Shelley said, "poets are the unacknowledged legislators of the worldā€.

ā—¼Dr . Johnson preferred Shakespeare's comedies to his Tragedies.

ā—¼Coleridge said, "I write in metre because I am about to use a language different from that of prose."

ā—¼Heroic Couplet is a two-line stanza having two rhyming lines in Iambic Pentameter.

ā—¼Alexandrine is a line of six iambic feet occasionally used in a Heroic couplet.
ā—¼Terza Rima is a run-on three-line stanza with a fixed rhyme-scheme.
ā—¼Rhyme Royal stanza is a seven-line stanza in iambic pentameter.
ā—¼Ottawa Rima is an eight-line stanza in iambic pentameter with a fixed rhyme-scheme.
ā—¼Spenserian stanza is a nine-line stanza consisting of two quatrains in iambic pentameter, rounded off with an Alexandrine.

ā—¼Blank verse has a metre but no rhyme.

ā—¼Simile is a comparison between two things which have at least one point common.

ā—¼Hyperbole is an exaggerated statement for the sake of emphasis.

ā—¼The poem by Chaucer known to be the first attempt in English to use the Heroic Couplet is The Legend of Good Women.

ā—¼Chaucer introduced the Heroic couplet in English verse and invented Rhyme Royal.

ā—¼The invention of the genre, the Eclogues (pastoral poetry) is attributed to Alexander Barclay.

ā—¼Mort D' Arthur is the first book in English in poetic prose.

ā—¼First to use blank verse in English drama Thomas Sackville.

ā—¼The first English play house called The Theatre was founded in London, 1576.
ā—¼Thomas Wyatt introduced the sonnet form to England.

ā—¼Thomas Nash was the creator of the picaresque novel. ( The Unfortunate Traveler)
ā—¼Francis Bacon is the first great stylist in English prose.

ā—¼Marlowe wrote only tragedies.

ā—¼Sir Walter Raleigh wrote the introductory sonnet

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