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Study Guide For Honours Second Year. Paper code (221103). W.Bake

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Songs of Innocence and of Experience Study Guide With Songs of Innocence, published in 1789, Blake introduced a new method of printing his own books. Blake would print his poems by hand onto copper plates, illustrate each poem with drawings, and then color the prints by hand. Blake claimed to have received this idea from the spirit of his recently deceased brother Robert. Most of Blake’s work from that point on was printed using this method. Blake moved to Lambeth from London in 1790, the same year he published his prose work, The Marriage of Heaven and Hell. This time also marks his shift from career as professional engraver to a more meditative writer as he developed his own mythology. His work expressed his belief that freedom and independence, including sexual freedom and independence from authority, were paramount. In 1794, Blake published Songs of Experience, which contrasts with the childlike naivety of his earlier Songs of Innocence. Songs of Experience brings in a da...
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Study Guide For Honours First Year. Paper code (211105). Thomas Gray

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Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard  Thomas Gray Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard is a Restoration Period poem by Thomas Gray. An elegy, by strict definition, is usually a lament for the dead. Gray’s version of an elegy is slightly different—he writes about the inevitability and hollowness of death in general, instead of mourning one person. At first, the poem reflects on death in a mostly detached way, as someone who is resigned to death’s outcome. Yet, the epitaph he writes for himself at the end of the poem, reflects a fear of death. Elegy is a renowned English poem, regarded as one of the best of the time, and arguably of all time. It was popular when it was first written and was reprinted many times. The speaker begins the poem by saying he is in a churchyard with a bell tolling for the end of the day, he uses this image as a metaphor for life and death. He describes the scenery around him, speaking of the sun setting, the church tower covered in ivy, and an o...
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Study Guide For Honours First Year. Paper code (211105). Emily Dickinson

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"Because I could not stop for Death" Emily Dickinson In this poem, Dickinson’s speaker is communicating from beyond the grave, describing her journey with Death, personified, from life to afterlife. In the opening stanza, the speaker is too busy for Death (“Because I could not stop for Death—“), so Death—“kindly”—takes the time to do what she cannot, and stops for her. This “civility” that Death exhibits in taking time out for her leads her to give up on those things that had made her so busy—“And I had put away/My labor and my leisure too”—so they can just enjoy this carriage ride (“We slowly drove – He knew no haste”). In the third stanza we see reminders of the world that the speaker is passing from, with children playing and fields of grain. Her place in the world shifts between this stanza and the next; in the third stanza, “We passed the Setting Sun—,” but at the opening of the fourth stanza, she corrects this—“Or rather – He passed Us –“—because she has ...
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টি. এস. এলিয়ট:  শবদেহের সৎকার আবদুস সেলিম | ১২ জুন ২০১৮ ৪:৪৯ অপরাহ্ন মুল: টি. এস. এলিয়ট অনুবাদ: আবদুস সেলিম টমাস স্টার্ন এলিয়ট (১৮৮৮-১৯৬৫), আধুনিক ইংরেজি সাহিত্যের অন্যতম প্রধান পুরুষ, তাঁর সর্বশ্রেষ্ঠ সাহিত্যকর্ম দ্য ওয়েস্ট ল্যান্ড-এর অধিকাংশ কবিতা রচনা করেছিলেন ১৯২১ সালে যা মুদ্রিত হয়েছিল ১৯২২-এ। পাঁচ ভাগে বিভক্ত দীর্ঘ ধারাবাহিক কবিতাগুলো হল: The Burial of the Dead; A Game of Chess; The Fire Sermon; Death by Water; এবং What the Thunder Said. কবিতাগুলো রচনার পেছনে, এলিয়ট-এর নিজ স্বীকারোক্তি মতে, মার্কিন কবি এজরা পাউন্ড-এর প্রত্যক্ষ সহযোগিতা পেয়েছিলেন। যে দু’টি ক্ষেত্রে তিনি এলিয়টকে পরামর্শ দিয়েছিলেন সে দু’টি হলো: কবিতাগুলো থেকে দীর্ঘ অংশগুলো বাদ দিয়ে ঘণবিন্যাসে সাজানো, এবং ছন্দ-বিন্যাসকে ভেঙ্গে ফেলা। কবিতাগুলো তিনি এজরা পাউন্ডকেই উৎসর্গ করেছেন। ভিভিয়েন—এলিয়ট-এর স্ত্রী—তাঁর কাছ থেকেও তিনি অনেক পরামর্শ নিয়েছিলেন কবিতাগুলোর প্রকাশনার চূড়ান্ত পর্যায়ে। প্রথম বিশ্বযুদ্ধে বিধ্বস্ত য়ূরোপে আধুনিক সংস্কৃতির নামে যে অবক্ষয় নেমেছিল তার‍ই প্রতিচ্ছবি এই কবিতাগুলো, যদিও এলিয়ট তাঁর কবিত...
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দেখুন হুজুর মন ভোলানো ওয়াজ কেমন করে।

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Desh amar dosh amar (দেশের সাথে অবহেলা)

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