English Literature: March 2016

Saturday, 12 March 2016

What is Racism or Realism. Discuss Langston Hughes as an Anti Racialist

 Langston Hughes as an Anti Racialist


Racism or racialism is any action, practice or belief that reflects the racial worldview the ideology that humans are divided into separate and exclusive biological entities called ‘races’ that there is a causal link between inherited physical traits and traits of personality intellect morality and other cultural behavioral features and that some races are innately superior to others. Racism was at the heart of north American slavery and the overseas colonization and empire building activities of some western Europeans especially in the 18th century.

What is Racism or Realism. Discuss Langston Hughes as an Anti Racialist

What Do You Know of Dickinson Philosophy of Pain and Suffering and Growth

 Dickinson Philosophy of Pain and Suffering and Growth


Dickinson’s poetic world is permeated with pain and suffering and the struggle of evade, face, overcome and wrest meaning from it or growing from it. Suffering is central to her poetic faith and it is involved in the creative processes as well. It is part of her ambivalent response to the mysteries of time and nature.

What Do You Know of Dickinson Philosophy of Pain and Suffering and Growth

How Young Goodman Brown Was Taken Into The Communion of Evil?

Young Goodman Brown's Taken Into The  Communion of Evil


‘Young Goodman Brown’ one of the greatest short stories in American literature beautifully sketches how a young good man becomes evil and participates in an unholy communion. The story can be read as an allegory centering on the temptation everyone faces and on the human tendency to prejudge others on insufficient evidence. Hawthorne also points out the inherent fallacy in puritan faith and depicts Goodman Brown as an every man.

Give an account of how young goodman brown was taken into the  communion of evil.

Saturday, 5 March 2016

The Use of Symbolism in the Poetry of Dylan Thomas

Dylan Thomas Use of Symbolism in His Poetry


Dylan Thomas makes extensive use of natural conventional and prvate symbols to convey complex psychological states to his readers. He draws symbols from different branches of sciences, philosohies, myths, legends, literature, history, occult knowledge, bible etc.

Symbolism in the Poetry of Dylan Thomas

How the "Love Song of J Alfred Prufrock" Represents the Conflict of a Modern Man.

"Love Song of J Alfred Prufrock" Represents the Conflict of a Modern Man


"Love Song of J Alfred Prufrock" is a dramatic monologue presenting a middle aged modern man who is unable to take a decision about making the proposal of marriage to the lady he loves. In a series of stanzas the lover analyses the reason for a resolution and re-decision and tries to justify his cowardice and lack of nerves which make him completely incapable of formulating  a proposal of love to his beloved. Behind this hesitating mental condition of Prufrock we find a disease of modern routine works the aimless life of the city dwellers and the monotonous round of social parties.

Discuss How the "Love Song of J Alfred Prufrock" Represents the Conflict of a Modern Man.