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Before the discussion of Pre- Raphaelite Poets or Poem , Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood or Pre- Raphaelite Movement is very important to know, because Without Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood, Pre- Raphaelite Poets do not exist. What is the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood or movement? Pre- Raphaelite is an artistic Movement started in England in 1948 by a group of poets , painters and critics, mainly three - Dante Gabriel Rossetti, William H. Hunt, John Everett Millais in London and called the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood who rejected the artistic creativity by Raphael , the Italian great painter that was started by the English Royal Academy. How many members were Pre-Raphaelite? There are seven members of a group with poets,painters and critics. William H. Hunt, John Everett Millais, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, William Michael Rossetti, James Collinson, Frederic George Stephens and Woolner in 1948 in London in response to the English Royal Academy of Arts. Some names of Artistic paint...

Stream of consciousness: Nobody cannot stop the flow of the river , it constantly moves similarly, Stream of Consciousness is the constant flow of thought of the characters into interior monologue that cannot be stopped in past, present and future. Who Coined this Term? William James in his Principal of Psychology (1890), used this term. Quote : “Consciousness… is nothing joined; it flows. A ‘river’ or a ‘stream’ are the metaphors by which it is most naturally described. In talking of it hereafter, let us call it the stream of thought, of consciousness, or of subjective life.” What kind of plot is used here? Thought process of Character used as a plot to describe the details of mind flow thinking. Characteristics of Stream of Consciousness: Continuously flow of unconscious thoughts of the character. Every minute details are described in the novel. It is a process of Thought, Feeling, Memories, Reactions. Not follow the Conventional rule of Syntax and Punctuation Totally co...

What is Confessional Poetry? Confessional Poetry means Personal Poem of the poet in where the narrator is First Person -"I", described extreme moments of individual experience, specially Taboo, such as- Suicide, Drug abuse, Sexuality, Alcoholism, Mental illness, Depression, Psyche, guilty. Who coined This Term? The founder of "School of Confessional Poetry", Robert Lowell used this " Confessional " term in his " Life Studies '' book. And this poetry emerged from the United States during the late 1950s and early 1960s. Elements of Confessional Poetry: Autobiographical concept Lyrical Balance Narration of First Person Intimate subject matter. Examples of The this Poetry: Daddy Lady Lazarus Nick and The Candlestick Summer in Calcutta Skunk Hour and Waking in Blue Famous poets: Robert Lowell Alycia Plath John Berryman Kamala Das Anne Sexton W.D. Snodgrass Allen Ginsberg Marie Howe Sharon Overview of the poems: Daddy : It is Sylvia Pla...

The War Poets  or the Trench poets are known as Anti-War poets because the soldier cum poets not show the brevity of war but the futility of war . War poetry is nothing but the shadow of brutal life among the soldiers during the First World War. The War Poets wrote their poetry to raise the question either life or death; National Pride or own existence; duty or guilt; courage or cowardness. Rupard Brooke, Wilfred Owen, Siegfried Sassoon, Robert Graves, Ivor Gurney, Isaac Rosenberg are the most prominent Anti-War Poets. They are all involved directly into the War and eye witness to see the brutality in the name of National Pride at the battlefield. Wilfred Owen: (1893-1918 ) He was one of the most prominent Anti-War Poets during the First World War as well as a soldier. He wrote many poems about war but only five poems were published in his lifetime but most important poems are published posthumously. Futility , Strange Meeting, Insensibility , Dulce et Decorum est ...

University Wits are none but the works of great  intellectual  scholars of Oxford and Cambridge University .They flourished Dramas during the Elizabethan Era and obviously before Macbeth Writer Shakespeare . The University Wits is a phrase that was made famous by late 16th century English Playwrights and Pamphleteers who were educated from Oxford and Cambridge but this term was coined by George Saintsbury . Christopher Marlowe, Robert Greene, Thomas Nashe are the scholars of Cambridge and John Lyly, Thomas Lodge, George Peele are the wits of Oxford University. Thomas Kyd was not of University but he also counted as a University Wits. They were usually actors and dramatists. University Wits reached the top point of the drama and gave a sensational stamina to boost up the thinking mind of the audience as well as readers. Christopher Marlowe (1564-1593): He is the evergreen shining star of University Wits. He shook the drama World to write top most Plays, mainly...

  Is Macbeth a villain or a hero? --Justify In the realm of Shakespearean   Heroes besides Hamlet , Othello and King Lear , the one Hero  who stands non-parallel is none other than Macbeth in the play of Macbeth . As a hero,he is outstanding in courage, heroic power, valour and poetic quality. The hero shut the mercy of mankind by murdering innocent ones. Thus becoming the title villain after his name . Wilson Knight called Macbeth 'the apocalypse of evil ' in The Wheel Of Fire. Rightly Ray Walker said that ," If Hamlet is the study of a moral man in an immoral society, Macbeth is the study of an immoral man of a moral society".      The witches in the very first scene utterance: " Fair is foul,foul is fair '' this is what strikes the key note of the play Macbeth .  A noteworthy and quoteworthy face is that in Macbeth , first appearance he almost utter the same, "So foul and fair a day I haven't seen " , thus making a like wi...

 Epistolary Novel  It is a one kind of famous novel that is written as a series of documents basically in Letter format. Elements Dialogue Format Emphasis on thoughts Interior Feelings Boundless Emotions Derived  That term derived from Greek word " Epistole " that means a Letter and this term coined by James Howell (1594–1666) with "Familiar Letters" Influenced  Epistolary Novel based on Realism to a story and impacts the working of real life from a different point of view. Popular In the 18th century, this genre became popular through the works of Samuel Richardson's successful Novels Pamela (1740) and Clarissa (1748). Famous Epistolary Novels : Pamela:(1740):  Samuel Richardson's successful first epistolary novel Pamela, It tells the story of a 15 years old maidservant Pamela who is able to  protect her chastity from the wealthy landowner Mr.B. It is a story of Moral Ethics. Clarissa (1748)   The pathetic story of a young woman, Cla...