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Assignment Paper 5 Romantic Literature

Name : Ruchita Kankrecha A Roll no. : 29 Paper no. : Victorian age Topic name : Victorian poets Enrolment no : 20691084190024 Email Id : ruchikankrecha06@gmail.com College : Department of English Submitted to : Department of English M. K Bhavnagar University                      “Water, Water, everywhere,                       And all the boards did shrink                       Water, water, everywhere,                       Nor any drop to drink “ -        The Rime of the Ancient Mariner by Samuel Taylor Coleridge Introduc...

Deconstruction - Derrida

"Structure sign and play in the Discourse of the Human sciences". Deconstruction is a theory and pactice of reading which questions and claims to 'subvert' or 'undermine' the assumption that the system of language provides grounds that are adequate to establish the boundaries, the coherence or unity, and the determinate meaning of literary text. Derrida combines two characteristics of the language mentioned above : "The arbitariness or the tendency to defer the ultimate and final meaning, and the systematic differentiality of, language and coins a new term "differance" the tendency or the force of language to defer and differ that is intrinsic to language." The new term is a pun, and is possible in French as the word differer can mean either to differ or to defer, depending on context and Derrida's assertion that deconstruction is not something that you do, but something which happens to text implies that it is the force of ...

River and Tides

Before I discuss about this famous documentary let me tell you what is documentary? So documentary is a television or radio program or a film which shows real events ir provides information about a particular subject. Andy Goldsworthy's "river and tides" working with the time. The documentary represents many themes like, 1. Transitory 2. Nature of art 3. Grasian urn So what is life of your art? How do you look at art that are related with time? Just imagin that when you do something and it's broken how you react? He given to the sea as a gift. Rivers and Tides is a famous documentary film directed by Thomas Riedelsheimer about the British artist Andy Goldsworthy, who creates intricate and ephemeral sculptures from natural materials such as rocks, leaves, flowers, and icicles. The music was composed and performed by Fred Frith and was released on a soundtrack, Rivers and Tides. The film received a number of awards like the ‘Best Documentary’ awards of the ...

Tradition and individual talents

  T.S.Eliot’s “Tradition and Individual Talent” was published in 1919 in The Egoist - the Times Literary supplement. Later, the essay was published in The Sacred Wood: Essays on Poetry and Criticism. This essay is described by David Lodge as the most celebrated critical essay in the English of the 20th century. The essay is divided into three main sections: 1. Eliot's Concept of tradition and individual talents 2. The theory of depersonalisation and poetry 3. Conclusion. 1.How would you like to explain Eliot's concept of Tradition? Do you agree with it? In the first part he talk about the concept of tradition and individual talents. Tradition means,            "an inherited, established, or customary pattern of thought, action, or behavior". Yes, I am agree with his this concept. Eliot says that writer should write with history in his bones. He gave very effective and modern definition. Tradition adition is matter of much ...

I. A. Richards - figurative Language

Ivor Armstrong Richards was known as I. A. Richards. He was great modern critic. T. S. Eliot and I. A. Richards are considered to be the pioneer in the field of new criticism. His views are different from other critics. I. A. Richards is a pioneer figure of new criticism. His path breaking works are, # The meaning of meaning - 1923 # The principle of Literary criticism - 1924 # The practice criticism - 1929 He also talk about three main objectives to write the practical criticism. 1. To introduce a new kind of documentation 2. To provide new technique 3. To prepare the way for Educational methods          "His practical approach gave new path             to Literary criticism" In his criticism of poetry, he gave a lot of importance to 'words' . He believed that,          "poet writes to communicate and                       language ...

Matthew Arnold - The study of poetry

        "Poetry is the criticism of life,                            governed by the laws of poetic truth              and poetic beauty". Matthew Arnold was English poet and cultural critic of 19th century. His notable works are, # "Dover beach" # "The scholar-Gipsy" # "Thysis" # "Culture and Anarchy" He wrote on social and cultural issues, religion, and education. His famous eassy on 'The study of poetry' : In this work, his concerned with poetry's high destiny. In this eassy he talk about some important points like # Touchstone method # His views of chaucer as a poet # His views on the age of dryden and pope # His views on Robert Burns as a poet # The Future of poetry # poetry is criticism of life # poetry interprets life # Fallacies of real Estimate # Idealism # High seriousness # moral and philosophical The study of poetry, the first ...

Youth Festival 2018 : Aishvaryam

we had Youth Festival in MKBU, Which was hosted by the Takshashila College. Time and again these kinds of academic functions must should be organized. Because it is the stage which helps in displaying the hidden talents. And most of the students take these opportunities as a career changing. In a way these all things influenced a lot in future. In this festival there are many events like, One act play Skit Mono-acting Poetry recitation On the spot painting Rangoli Photography Poster making Group traditional song Western group song Installation Bhajan so on. So the task given by Dilip Barad sir to observe and watch this events and do critical work. One act play : As we know that according to Aristotelian play must have an acts so that people can understand or they can organize them with sequence. But now a days we find so many plays which has only one act plays and though we consider ad a play and it is call "One act play". "sikka n...