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Andre del Sarto Robert Browning Sushma ma'am's lecture notes on 15 December Browning perfected the dramatic monologue: Dramatic monologue is not a soliloquy It is any form of poetry that has a speaker, an implied auditor and an occassion (usually a crisis in the speaker's life) It has one voice containing an intrinsic (implicit) appeal using rhetoric This speaker is a character of depth, psychological complexity, strain Look up: psychography Relevant: high Renaissance, Mannerism Contemporary (of the high Renaissance) (along with Andrea del Sarto) artists: Raphael, Michaelangelo -------------- Browning attempted an Italian context to a Victorian text (explained using the window metaphor - looking at a 13-14 C artist's life through Victorian elements) dynamics of a relationship of love changes after marriage POINTERS: institution of marriage, commitment, contrast between proud artist and beseeching husband Littlest things bring you down Roles in l...

Sushma ma'am's lecture notes: Introduction to Tennyson on 18 Nov 2014 Sir Alfred Lord Tennyson 1809-1892 Poet Laureate after Wordsworth Raised to peerage as Lord in 1884 Poetry: In Memoriam, Idylls of the King, Queen Mary, Harold, Akbar's Dream, The Lady of Shalott Simple language; classical, ornate tone - almost musical Tennyson's poetic career analysed in terms of two works: Locksley Hall (written in 1842) - celebrates England's faith in science and commerce Locksley Hall Sixty Years After (written in 1886) - expresses repulsion with science [Science first seen as magic solution to end class barriers but later, it came to be concluded that science made these barriers more rigid] W.R.T. Victorianism other works like The Princess, Idylls of the King and Ulysses look at higher education of women, reflections on life and exploration - "the promise of the journey lies in the uncharted waters" Tennyson called "the poetic exponent of the...

TOBA TEK SINGH NOV 10, 2014 Evolving understanding of Partition Identity crisis: 1. Existential crisis 2. Loyalties - Indian or Pakistani - not just territorial or political but also highly personal, an individual choice 3. identity itself fluid and contextual about madness in and of Partition Madness because of the cost of separation Madness incomprehensible, but meant to be so: 1. no outsider can comprehend the reality of the Partition 2. the Partition SHOULD NOT make sense to us, because it is not our tragedy to understand 3. trauma narrative -------------- NOV 14, 2014 Components of a short story: plot (twist) (message) characters time point of view - but better to call it focalization setting  mood fact or fiction style of writing "When you learn how to read a text, it 'disables' you from merely summarizing it in the exam" Paratexts (outside elements) title preface prologue epilogue foreword introduction blurb in...

QUICK REVISION: Casabianca - Ayyappa Panicker Themes:  challenging established ideas because impractical questioning blind obedience rational thinking and logic filial piety is overrated self-glorification (by father) outdated ideals, morals, standards (esp. those of respect toward elders) necessity for scientific temper * through the poem, our perceptions about the father and the son evolve and become more tangible and less open to interpretation * twist in storyline, attitude * responsibility toward future generations to encourage wiser ideals * press in the poem - criticized for sensationalizing and being purveyors of gossip - emphasis on 'human element' (p.s. this is a euphemism) rather than cold hard facts Literary devices: satire irony subversion  intertextuality Ayyappa Panicker is challenging a celebrated poem which symbolizes filial piety and obedience He does this using inter-textuality - referring to one text while writing another (here, Feli...

SUSHMA MA'AM 10 NOV 2014 INTRODUCTION TO VICTORIAN ENGLAND Victorian: not necessarily of the age (1837 to 1901) but also about the sensibility Tangible aspects: 1. extreme prosperity 2. height of imperialism 3. industrial revolution and agricultural revolution and their effect on daily life (railways, separation of private and public space, concept of town vs city or vs workplace (in an agrarian lifestyle, the workplace and home is the same - not so in an urban setting), "balance" of the two) 4. architecture (revival of medieval, Gothic - dark, secretive, cloistered) 5. inventions!!! (Queen Victoria first to be photographed) The Great Exhibition is used as a metaphor for the age of inventions: all modern scientific inventions were put on display - camera, steam engine - but also a miniature iron-and-glass structure (apparently a building) which shocked the public who would not trust iron (as opposed to stone) as building material and who reje...

Hi guys! Since I am a dweeb who studies in the vacations, and thought you would also benefit from a headstart on the hell they're going to throw our way this semester, here is the syllabus: BRIT LIT: http://www.christuniversity.in/uploadimages/English%20Studies%20syllabus%202013-14(1).pdf And expect notes (topic by topic, not chapter by chapter) the day they are taught, henceforth. Bibliography of Required Reading (EST 231) Abrams, M.H. A Glossary of Literary Terms. 8th Ed. New York: Wardworth, 2005. Print. Corcoran, Neil. The Cambridge Companion to Twentieth-Century English Poetry. Cambridge: CUP, 2007.Print. (on flipkart this costs you Rs. 2,555) Davis, Alex, and Lee M Jenkins. The Cambridge Companion to Modernist Poetry. Cambridge: CUP, 2007.Print. > We already know the syllabus for Additional and General English, but here are the links nonetheless: GENERAL ENGLISH: http://www.christuniversity.in/uploadimages/First%20Year%20English%20syllabus%20fo...

So, today, we discussed truth: what it is, how it may differ from person to person, its relationship with reality, how God is truth (cough) (don't get me started on that, please) (actually, ( do ) get me started) and so on. Not much so far... Alrighty Notes!!!!! Epicurian philosophy seeking pleasure unsteady state of mind of mankind in general - can't stay true to truth forever man judges through his knowledge cultural and intellectual movement man values opinion of others - image > integrity God couldn't teach falsehood

I O wild West Wind, though breath of Autumn's being personification, alliteration, apostrophe Thou, from whose unseen presence the leaves dead unseen presence because the wind is tangible but not visible Are driven, like ghosts from an enchanter fleeing dead leaves compared to ghosts. West wind compared to exorcist (enchanter) who drives away ghosts Yellow, and black, and pale, and hectic red, the color of fallen leaves Pestilence-stricken multitudes: O thou, leaves, unwanted, decayed elements Who chariotest to their dark wintry bed The winged seeds, where they lie cold and low In the last line of the previous stanza, Shelley begins to speak about the wind as a chariot who delivers to the dark, cold earth, the winged seeds, where they simply lie on the ground, scattered, dormant, cold and wet under the snow, hence: Each like a corpse within its grave, until Buried, like a corpse, under the snow, until Thine azure sister of the Spring shall blow your sister, the ...

Literally, the title means the beautiful lady without thank you Makes no sense, unless you take it as a. The pretty lady without gratitude b. The pretty lady without mercy The poem is written in 12 parts: the first three parts, or stanzas, are in the voice of a random stranger who sees a knight-at-arms, desolate and pale, haggard and woe-begone, in cold sweats. He asks this knight-at-arms what ails him, then in parts (stanzas) 4 through 12, the knight-at-arms tells his tale. The intent of this poem is to take the reader back in time to the medieval period of 8-12 C, (or usually in such poems, to the Hellenic era) that is the Dark Ages. Why? Because of freedom to express un-Christian, dark themes. Gothic elements - violence, terror, mystery, dark, subconsciousness, strange human relationships. How Keats does it: matter-of-fact to make you curious brevity, economy of words reality-fantasy I. O WHAT can ail thee, knight-at-arms,   Alone and pal...

In no particular order, the class notes: The world does not exist unless you imagine it to be a certain way Perceiving =/= conceiving (couldn't find a "not equal to" sign) All our wiles and feelings find a mirror in Nature Our experiences make us sublime (not above and beyond, but existing in a synergy with the world) - every experience reminds us of who we are Wordsworth: Romantic, sensuous; seeing the heart, the core of everything - enjoying the beauty in everything simplicity of language and diction aesthetic calls for imaginary powers sublime and transcendent Blake - mysticism Shelley - scientific temper - the world is  charged  with this crackling, electric, buzzing energy Coleridge - supernatural Byron - Dark forces, earthiness, communion with Nature Keats is the high priest among the Romantics:  Nature was, in fact, his religion, and he has been called 'nature's  high priest '   ... HOOOOOO MY GADDD LOOK AT THIS COMPARISON IT'S AMA...

http://www.bachelorandmaster.com/britishandamericanpoetry/lycidas.html This analysis discusses the context, form and content of the poem Lycidas by John Milton, not necessarily in that order. To begin with, Milton chose Lycidas as an attempt at a trope, or continuation of a character, much like contemporary fanfiction. Lycidas was first written about by Herodotus in his ninth volume. Lycidas was an Athenian Councillor who was brutally executed (stoned to death) for suggesting truce between Athens and Persia, who were contemplating a hugely wasteful war when negotiations and peace were both available options. When written about by Theocritus, Lycidas was a goatherd wrongfully murdered, and by the time Milton wrote the poem Lycidas, Lycidas had become symbolic of unfair, unreasonable, fatally brutal death. Lycidas employs this symbol to express his anguish and frustration about the futility of Edward King’s death. This leads one to observe the form of the poem, which is an ...