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Continue reading →: Film Adaptations and Copyright Issues
Keywords Shakespeare, interpretation, Hamlet, Active Reading, Film Meaning, reading, viewing, passive reading, Critical Evaluation, historical context, Film Adaptations, Music Preferences, Copyright Permission, literary text, Filming Permits, Existential Relevance, Film Industry, Salman Rushdie, Directorial Interpretation, Book Recommendations, Reading with the Grain, Reading against the Grain, Adaptation, Hollywood, Clothing, Myths, Content Sharing…
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Continue reading →: ‘The Love Song of J Alfred Prufrock’ by T S Eliot
The ironical title of the poem, its epigraph from Dante’s Inferno, sudden or abrupt shifts in meaning and contexts, and the split selves of the protagonist and the use of metaphysical conceits, and use of free verse establish it as one of the great experiments in poetry made in the…
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Continue reading →: ‘The Second Coming’ by W B Yeats
‘The Second Coming’ is W B Yeats’ manifestation of the modernist sense of fragmentation, chaos and disillusionment. W B Yeats has tried to explore the loss of order, control and tradition at the cost of the prosperity of sinners, falling of things apart, tyranny and death of innocence. Taking its…
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Continue reading →: ‘Dover beach’ by Matthew Arnold
‘Dover Beach’ by Matthew Arnold is a dramatic monologue, which indirectly rejects the very notion of a dramatic monologue itself. The listener in this dramatic monologue is absent and is being addressed by the poet as “love” and the speaker of this dramatic monologue is perhaps the narrator or the poet himself.…
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Continue reading →: ‘Blowin’ in the Wind’ by Bob Dylan
Bob Dylan (Robert Allen Zimmerman, b.1941–) is an American singer, songwriter, and visual artist who won the Nobel Prize in Literature for ‘having created new poetic expressions within the great American song tradition’. In his songs and compositions, he seems to represent himself a pacifist and gives vivid descriptions of…
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Continue reading →: ‘My Last Duchess’ by Robert Browning
Through this beautiful dramatic monologue, Robert Browning has tried to see deep into the psychological state of the Protagonist Duke of Ferrara and the inner motivations and designs that led him to get his own wife, the last Duchess, murdered. The epigraph of the poem “FERRARA” is suggestive of it…
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Continue reading →: ‘Break, Break, Break’ by Alfred Tennyson
Popularly known for its representation of the Victorian Compromise, the poem voices the poet’s sense of loss of his friend Henry Hallam and the lost moments of emotional recovery that the thing lost is never regained as Tennyson concludes that “that is dead/Will never come back to me”. The poem…
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Continue reading →: ‘Ulysses’ by Alfred Tennyson
Written in blank verse, the dramatic monologue depicts Tennyson’s belief in the sense of compromise that the Victorian Age came to make: between aristocracy and democracy; religion and science; faith and doubt; monarchy and the parliament; and the old order and the new changes. Being a representative poem of the…
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Continue reading →: ‘Daffodils’ by William Wordsworth
Being a typical example of Wordsworth’s nature poem, it reveals how the poetic inspiration consummates into a spontaneous overflow of the poet’s powerful feelings when he/she is in a pensive mood and tranquility “when on my couch I lie/ In vacant or in pensive mood”. The process involves writing a…
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Continue reading →: ‘The Trees’ by Philip Larkin
Written in trochaic tetrameter quatrain form Philip Larkin’s Movement poem The Trees explores the poet’s own ambivalence where he oscillates between the sense of happiness or renewal of leaves to a tree and the sense of loss or pain grief and death that occurs before the leave grow to a…