Consider the Merchant of Venice as a Tragi-Comedy

The Merchant of Venice as a Tragi-Comedy

The Merchant of Venice has generally been classified as a romantic comedy which means a play containing a number of romantic elements and a number of comic elements, skillfully and artistically mixed together. But almost every romantic comedy of Shakespeare has a number of serious elements too, and some of these serious elements come very close to becoming tragic which makes the play a tragi comedy.

In the Novella "Seize the Day", Discuss Wilhelm’s Character as Struggling one in Problem

Wilhelm’s Character Struggling one in Problem  in Seize the Day

 

In Saul Bellow’s novella Seize the Day Wilhelm is a character in the midst of great struggle. Going through a midlife crisis he finds problems converging from all sides. These difficulties affect him physically as well as mentally and emotionally:

Theme of Hope and Regeneration as You Find it in Shelley’s Poetry

Shelley as a poet of hope with reference to his poem “Ode to the West Wind”.

Write a note on Shelley’s optimism with illustrations from his poems.

Theme of Hope and Regeneration in Shelley’s Poetry

Shelley was a born revolutionary and he had firm faith in the regeneration of mankind. He was a visionary whose faith and optimism never dwindled. His motto of life was to liberate mankind form the tyranny of all types. He dreamt of a bright and radiant future. His constant aim in poetry was to bring about a glorious millennium- a Golden Age in future. His “Ode to the West Wind” is a poetic manifestation of the home and optimism that he would nourish in the inner recesses of his heart.

Critical Appreciation of the Poem “Ode to the West Wind”

“Ode to the West Wind” ,  Critical Appreciation

“Ode to the West Wind” is one of the most famous poems by Shelley and it was published in the same book, which consists of his famous drama, Prometheus Unbound and many magnificent lyric poems. He wrote this poem in the autumn of 1819 in Florence. The poem is considered as one of the noblest lyrics in English. It bears testimony to the poetic genius that Shelley was.

Consider Shelley as a Lyrical Poet

Shelley as a Lyrical Poet 

Percy Bysshe Shelley is one of the great Romantic poets in English literature. His poetry is marked by excellence and power in several departments. In the first place, he possesses the lyrical gift or the power of embodying in musical language some transient but vivid emotion or some passing mood in such a way as to reproduce the feeling in the reader. Commonly acclaimed as one of the supreme lyrical geniuses in English poetry, Shelley’s poetry is always pleasant reading because of the lyrical qualities it embodies.