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To His Coy Mistress by Andrew Marvell (B. A. II Opt English)

  To His Coy Mistress  by Andrew Marvell Had we but world enough and time, This coyness, lady, were no crime. We would sit down, and think which way To walk, and pass our long love’s day. Thou by the Indian Ganges’ side Shouldst rubies find; I by the tide Of Humber would complain. I would Love you ten years before the flood, And you should, if you please, refuse Till the conversion of the Jews. My vegetable love should grow Vaster than empires and more slow; An hundred years should go to praise Thine eyes, and on thy forehead gaze; Two hundred to adore each breast, But thirty thousand to the rest; An age at least to every part, And the last age should show your heart. For, lady, you deserve this state, Nor would I love at lower rate.        But at my back I always hear Time’s wingèd chariot hurrying near; And yonder all before us lie Deserts of vast eternity. Thy beauty shall no more be found; Nor,...

The Soldier by Rupert Brooke (B. A. II)

The Soldier by Rupert Brooke About the Poet: Rupert Brooke , (born Aug. 3, 1887,  Rugby , Warwickshire, Eng.—died April 23, 1915,  Skyros , Greece), English poet, a wellborn, gifted, handsome youth whose early death in  World War I  contributed to his idealized image in the interwar period. His best-known work is the sonnet sequence  1914 .                                                           BORN August 3, 1887  Rugby ,  England                                                 DIED April 23, 1915 (aged 27)  Skyros ,  Greece At school at Rugby, where his father was a master, Brooke distinguished himself as a cricke...

Features of Comedy of Manners- Notes (B. A. II)

 Features of Comedy of Manners  Introduction This genre refers to English Comedies written and performed in the Restoration Period from 1660 A.D. to 1710 A.D. It is also called as Restoration Comedy. It is an entertainment form which satirizes the manners and affections of social class or of multiple classes. A manner is a method in which everyday duties are performed. As compared to the tragedy of the Restoration Age, this genre achieved greater distinction and shame. It was the most characteristic product of Restoration Literature & reflects the spirit of the age more comprehensively than its prose and poetry. Dryden was the first to write Comedy of Manners with his Wild Gallant, which was a failure. He wrote several other Comedies of Manners also which were more successful. Features of Comedy of Manners 1. It depends upon the dramatists’ capacity to present the unemotional treatment of sex. 2. It is rich with wit and satire and gives the image of the time. 3...

Love One Another by Khalil Gibran (एकमेकांवर प्रेम करा- मराठी भाषांतर)

मराठी भाषांतर  एकमेकांवर प्रेम करा - खलील जिब्रान  एकमेकांवर प्रेम करा, परंतू नका करू प्रेमाचा करार. त्याऐवजी बनू द्या त्याला आपल्या आत्म्याच्या किनारी फिरणारा समुद्र. एकमेकांचा कप भरा, परंतू नका पिऊ एकाच कपातून. एकमेकांना आपल्या भाकरीतील तुकडा द्या, पण खाऊ नका तीच भाकरी. एकत्र गा आणि नृत्य करा आणि आनंदी रहा, परंतु स्वतंत्र असू द्या तुमच्यातील प्रत्येकजण. अगदी सतारीच्या तारादेखील स्वतंत्र असतात तरी थरथरतात त्या मात्र एकाच संगीताने. आपली हृदये द्या, परंतु एकमेकांना सांभाळण्यासाठी नको. फक्त आयुष्याच्या हातात असू शकतात हृदये आपली. आणि एकत्र उभे रहा, तरीही जास्त जवळ जवळ नको . कारण मंदिराचे खांब वेगवेगळ्या ठिकाणी असतात उभे. आणि ओक वृक्ष आणि सरू वाढत नाहीत एकमेकांच्या सावलीत. ******************* Love One Another by Khalil Gibran Love one another, but make not a bond of love. Let it rather be a moving sea between the shores of your souls. Fill each other's cup, but drink not ...

Tradition and The Individual Talent by T. S. Eliot

A Manifesto of Eliot’s Critical Creed The essay Tradition and Individual Talent was first published in 'The Egoist' (1919) and  later in Eliot’s first book of criticism “The Sacred Wood ”( 1 9 2 0). . The essay may be regarded as an unofficial manifesto of Eliot’s critical creed, for it contains all those critical principles from which his criticism has been derived ever since. The seeds which have been sown here come to fruition in his subsequent essays. It is a declaration of Eliot’s critical creed, and these principles are the basis of all his subsequent criticism. Its Three Parts The essay is divided into three parts. The first part gives us Eliot’s concept of tradition, and in the second part is developed his theory of the impersonality of poetry. The short, third part is in the nature of a conclusion, or summing up of the whole discussion. Traditional Elements: Their Significance Eliot begins the essay by pointing out that the word ‘tradition’ is ...