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"About, about, in reel and rout// The death-fires danced at night;// The water, like a witch's oils,// Burnt green, and blue, and white" -- Explain   (The Rime of Ancient Mariners) This context extract from Romantic and Supernatural poet S.T. Coleridge 's poem The Rime of Ancient Mariners . Here, in stanza 11, the speaker said that was the night although the creature would not be seen the multi coloured water  looked like a boiling witch's cauldron.  A fantastic and horrifying hallucination. The poet is creating a supernatural environment through these lines, and soon the shipmates believe  that  a spirit had been following them to create trouble for them. This line further seems to mirror the shipmates state of mind. They have already put to display their superstitions by at once, blaming the mariner, at another appreciating him. Thus, this may also be seen as an extension of their supernatural belief. The fires seem suggestive of hell, bringing fo...

"I'm only an everyday sort of man, and my only chance was in being the first comer." ---How far is Gabriel Oak justified in saying this? At first-comer does he gets a chance to marry Bathsheba?-----Explain "I'm only an everyday sort of man, and my only chance was in being the first comer."---How far is Gabriel Oak justified in saying this? At first-comer does he gets a chance to marry Bathsheba?-----Explain Gabriel Oak is the hero of Thomas Hardy's novel Far From The Madding Crowd . Hardy has spent more space and more pain on the depictions of Oak's characters. In chapter 4, during conversation between capital and Mrs Hurst, the relative of Bathsheba .  Gabriel introduced him as loyal and devoted to Bathsheba , also solid and dependable as a Oak Tree to Mrs Hurst . He does not know how to flats a woman when he says, " I'm only an every-day sort of man" that means he is down-to-earth, dutiful,honest and straightforward...

"Tomorrow, and tomorrow, and tomorrow, Creeps in this petty pace from day to day, To the last syllable of recorded time; And all our yesterdays have lighted fools The way to dusty death. Out, out, brief candle! Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player, That struts and frets his hour upon the stage, And then is heard no more. It is a tale Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, Signifying nothing"    ---Explain (Macbeth) Just after the death of Lady Macbeth , the quoted  words flow from the mouth of Lady Macbeth's husband Macbeth with pensive mood in William Shakespeare's tragedy play Macbeth in act 5 scene 5. This is the realisation of a man who has gone a long way, in the way of life. After life fulfills fervour,  Lady Macbeth sleeps eternally. At the death of Lady Macbeth, Macbeth shows an indifferent attitude and says this is not time for her to die, for she could die later. human beings seek tomorrow, tomorrow and tomorrow. Life is like a c...

A Dramatic Monologue is characterized by a speaker, a silent listener, presentations of a state of crisis in the speaker etc. Robert Browning provided flesh and blood to his genre. His  poem like  " Last Ride Together"," Prophyria's Lover", "Fra Lippo Lippi"   are perfect examples of dramatic monologue. In My Last Duchess, the speaker is the Duke of Ferrara from whose speech the readers can visualise the picture of his Dutchess. To a convoy from the court of foreign Lord ,he reveals the crisis of his life which leads him to murder is suitable Duchess. This dramatic monologue amalgamated with joy and sadness, hope and desperate , love and hatred. " That's my last Duchess painting on the wall,  Looking as if you were alive"- It is how the poem opens with to a convoy, the Duke points to his Dutchess. The painting of the Fra Pandolf resembles a piece of wonder, a Jem of painting and the great work of art. It is the outcome of F...

"Besides, incentives come from the soul's self... why do I need you"?-----Explain (Andrea del Sarto) These quoted lines taken from Victoria poet Robert Browning   134-135 lines of Andrea del Sarto . He wonders whether what makes his contemporaries great is their lack of wife and he blames to his wife Lucanza   for her, he lost his power, glory and position of art as a fruitless painter. Browning very enthusiastically narrated the picture of Andrea del Sarto   life through as a fruitless painter, who totally had mad for the beauty of Lucanza , his wife and came back from France to Italy to fulfill his wife's wish to neglected his inner and mind power painting as a painter. But when he realised what is the more valuable of his life painting or wife? His mind frusted and collapse totally, he  not able to painting from his soul because, it was disturbed by his wife. Best painting never create from brain but soul but the speaker's soul was her wife n...

"Weave a circle round and round him thrice … and drunk the Milk of Paradise" -----Explain (Kubla Khan) With these quoted lines Samuel.Taylor. Coleridge poem's Kubla Khan comes to end of stanza 3, lines 51- 54.Here in this poem, the speaker calls up a strange spirit. This weaving circle round him thrice brings to mind the idea of ritual for us and that ' Holy dread '  reinforces it. There is certainly sometimes Holy or  Scared about this poem. The poet who can recreate his visions is one to be revered in rituals. The final two lines- my poor hero's epithet- express in my opinion and the awe. We can feel before the works of great artists, poets and musicians. Heaven is occasionally attained in art by those blessed artists who have "drunk the Milk of Paradise '' - and when it leaves us in a slightly  dazed state, not quite sure when we are anymore. As a final thought, I shall say that I think the last lines of the poem are akin in...