Summary and Critical Appreciation of William Wordsworth Poem “Tintern Abbey”

Summary and Critical Appreciation of  “Tintern Abbey”

Maybe “Tintern Abbey” is the most well-known poem by one of the most famous British Romantic poets. The poem has its foundations in Wordsworth's own past. Wordsworth professed to have formed the poem altogether in his mind, starting it after leaving Tintern and but rather writing down a line until he arrived at Bristol, by which time it had recently arrived at mental culmination. “This is the first Poem,” as Helen Derbyshire says, “in which Wordsworth’s genius finds full expression: the blank verse, low toned and familiar yet impassioned, moves with a sureness and inevitable ease from phase to phase to this mood.” In fact this poem sums up all the main articles of Wordsworth’s faith in Nature. To Wordsworth Nature is never dead. He discovers a dominating spirit and the contemplation of it, a holy communion with it is a source of joy, delight, consolation and thought. His philosophical thought finds an expression through the grand style. It has been enriched with autobiographical touch. It also exhibits the poet’s gradual development of thought through different stages. His mystic view of nature has been focused through these stages.

Why Blake Called the Precursor of Romantic Poetry

Blake, The Precursor of Romantic Poetry

William Blake is regarded as the precursor of romantic poetry. He belongs to the age of transition from late 18^th century to early 19^th century poetry. Some of his poems are like the poems of 18^th century poets because they give us a picture of life and society. His group of poems give us the impression of English romantic poetry because they are imaginative, sensuous and simple like the romantic poets. He writes about the beauty of nature, hills, sea, birds, tress, forest etc. which became the subject matter of romantic poets. Before the arrival of the romantic poets he wrote romantic poetry. Therefore he can be called the precursor of romantic poetry. It seems that romantic poets followed the style of Blake and gave a full expression to Blake’s romanticism.

Shakespeare’s Use of Disguise in The Twelfth Night

Use of Disguise in "The Twelfth Night":

Shakespeare was master-craftsman who has displayed great skill in the technique of the use of disguise. We find his mastery over this technique in The Merchant of Venice, As you Like It and The Twelfth Night. In The Twelfth Night Viola is the only character who assumes a disguise and her disguise affects all the other characters in the play profoundly. Her disguise is the real moving force of the main plot of this play.

Critically Comment on Twelfth Night as a Romantic Comedy.

"Twelfth Night" as a Romantic Comedy:

A Shakespearean comedy is a romantic comedy- a combination of romance and comedy. Shakespeare’s comedies have certain features in common. His comedy aims at sheer joy and pleasure. He wrote tragedies because it was his taste but he wrote comedies to relieve his mind from heaviness. Hence, the romantic atmosphere of his comedies.

Comment on the Trail Scene in "The Merchant of Venice"?

Trail scene in The Merchant of Venice

The Trail scene in The Merchant of Venice is one of the greatest scenes in the whole range of Shakespearean drama. Here Shylock  who first seems to have succeeded in his revengeful desire for a pound of Antonio’s flesh to be cut off from his bosom, is subsequently thwarted  in his purpose by the sagacity of Portia’s who is a woman disguised as  a man.