Charles Baudelaire’s “L’Albatros”
Category: Literature
A symbol is something used to stand for something else. A symbol is often a concrete object used to represent an abstract idea having a broader meaning which is often moral, religious or philosophical. Nathaniel Hawthorne who is considered one of the most prolific symbolizes in American literature, had the perfect atmosphere for shedding light […]
Pecking into the literary works of Robert Frost, we get indulged in a soothing, pastoral setting close to nature which get to realize behind the curtains of our eyes. Whenever we find something close to nature, often we think about the romantic poets of the early 19th century. We find William Wordsworth, who is known […]
If we start to think about the purpose of life and where it might end, what is the answer we are likely to get? Why do we live and what is the meaning of our life? As at the end we are all going to die. Is our life merely meaningless? These questions relating to […]
Michael Madhusudan Dutt was one of the most popular Bengali poet of the 19th century. He is considered as first great poet of modern Bengali literature. His contributions to Bengali literature are immense, the reason he is vastly remembered for. He worked on various genres such as sonnets, plays, and epic poem. Early life of […]
Absurdism doesn’t work with logic or reasoning and in literature writers’ chose this to show the meaninglessness of life with the happenings of illogical events. It is definitely a theme of modern plays as it tries to reflect the reality of modern people’s life. But the way modern playwrights Samuel Beckett, Albert Camus, Franz Kafka […]
The Good Woman of Setzuan by Bertolt Brecht portrays the struggle to be good while living in a deceitful society, and the delicate balance needed to survive within it. Throughout the book, it clarifies that it is sinuous to be a good person like Shen Te. That is why she needs Shui Ta, her alter […]
Introduction Before discussing the gender role in The Sun Also Rises, we might clear a typical thing. We often get confused and think that sex and gender are the same thing. But there is added description of gender which refers to the characteristics of women, men, girls and boys that are socially constructed. This includes […]
Every writer of different period, pens down for a motive, to fulfill a purpose and nonetheless it has some message to provide about that era. Just as how we get an insight into the hollowness of 14th century by going through Goeffrey Chaucer‘s The Prologue to the Canterbury Tales, we get to feel the melancholy […]
Orature refers to the oral form of literature where stories, fables, songs etc., are told orally. The preliterate society had no written literary document, but these did not make their rich culture stay mute. They too had events of joy and sorrow, victory and loss, heroism, and patriotism. These events were passed down orally as […]