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  Sonnet Sequences in English Literature - JS.N (19/03/2024) " Astrophil and Stella, 108 " by Sir Philip Sidney (1591, Elizabethan period) " Delia, 50 " by Samuel Daniel (1592, Elizabethan period) " Amoretti, 89 " by Edmund Spenser (1595, Elizabethan period) " Idea, " by Michael Drayton (1594, Elizabethan period) " Diana " by Henry Constable (1594, Elizabethan period) " Holy Sonnets, 19 " by John Donne (1635-9, Jacobean period) " Emblems of Love " by Francis Quarles (1635, Jacobean period) " Cynthia, with Certain Sonnets " by Richard Barnfield (1595, Elizabethan period) " Fidessa " by William Drummond (1616, Jacobean period) " The Forest of Love " by Thomas Watson (1570, Elizabethan period) " The Shepherd's Pipe " by Nicholas Breton (1595, Elizabethan period) " The House of Life, 101 " by Dante Gabriel Rossetti (1881, Victorian period) " Monna Innominata, 14

Iambic Pentameter - JS.N (19/03/2024) Definition of Iambic Pentameter: Iambic pentameter is a type of poetic metre that consists of five iambic feet per line. An iambic foot is a unit of unstressed and stressed syllables, with the stress falling on the second syllable. This creates a da-DUM da-DUM rhythm that can sound like a heartbeat or a drumbeat. Example of Iambic Pentameter: One famous example of iambic pentameter comes from Shakespeare's "Twelfth Night": Each line of this passage is written in iambic pentameter, meaning it consists of five iambs. Each pair of syllables forms an iambic foot, with the stress falling on the second syllable. This creates a pattern of five iambic feet, or iambic pentameter. Explanation of Iambic Pentameter: "If MU-sic BE the FOOD of LOVE, play ON," This line consists of 10 syllables, with the stress falling on every other syllable, creating a pattern of five iambic feet. This rhythm creates a musical quality that is pleasing to

The Road Not Taken: Summary - JS.N (04/12/2022) Robert Lee Frost is an American poet who was much admired for his depictions of the rural life of New England, and his realistic verse portraying ordinary people in everyday situations. The Road Not Taken is one of Robert Frost’s most familiar and most popular poems. Frost wrote the poem in the first person, which raises the question of whether the speaker is the poet himself or a character created by him. According to Lawrance Thompson’s biography on Robert Frost, Frost would often introduce the poem in public readings by saying that the speaker of the poem was based on his Welsh friend ‘Edward Thomas’. The poem is about his friend Edward Thomas who had gone off to war.  The first stanza sets the scene for the extended metaphor of choices in the form of two roads which the speaker faces.  “Two roads diverged in a yellow wood, And sorry I could not travel both” The road splitting in the woods is a metaphor for choice. Wherever

On Killing a Tree: Summary - JS. N (04/12/2022) Gieve Patel the author of the poem On Killing a Tree is a Poet, Playwright and Painter by passion and a Doctor by profession. He had published three books of poetry as Poems (1966), How do you withstand, Body (1976) and Mirrored Mirroring (1991). The poem ‘On Killing a Tree’ is one of the poems from his poetry collection named ‘Poems’. This collection was launched by Nissim Ezekiel. Being a part of “Green Movement”, he entitled himself to protect the environment. As a result of this he had exhibited his concern through poetry. Most of Patel’s poems centre on exposing man’s cruelty towards nature and his concern towards it. ‘On Killing a Tree,’ too, is one such poem. The poem is set on a visual plane. The descriptions are vivid, and the mood is sad, expressing the pain felt by the trees, as imagined by Patel. The poem tries to convey the fact that trees have life and cutting down a tree is an actual process of killing it. The poet makes s

Grading down Plastics - JS.N (04/12/2022) The article “Grading down Plastics'' brings out the necessary information about plastics which every individual should be aware of. The day to day usage of plastics has turned out to be indispensable. Right from the mobile phone to a small tag in a dress are made out of plastics. The basic requirements for a human being to survive are food, shelter and clothes, meanwhile the use of plastics is gradually becoming a need in this modern era.      Apart from the problem of decomposition and health hazards caused due to the use of plastics, there are certain challenges and complications involved in the process of down-cycling and in the mixing of different types of plastics together, also. Every time plastic is down-cycled, it delivers a lower grade and the chemical synthetics used will makes the whole process toxic and hazardous. The article presents four important concepts to manage plastics as:  Identifying the resin code to sort out and

The Urban-Rural Divide - JS.N (04/12/2022) Sudhish Kamath, a resident of Chennai had written this newspaper article, describing the urban and rural division between the interior city of Chennai and the outskirts of Chennai. The vast difference which he had experienced within a half an hour travel outside the city limits, made him come up with such an article. He eventually distincts his views about being in a rural area as The bad stuff and The good stuff. He enlists the good and bad stuffs as follows: The bad stuff: Power cuts - 12-16 hour  The power crisis, Sudhish mocks the working reality of the government. He tries to bring out the helplessness of the government in resolving the issue with electricity by stating “We've now invested in an inverter and might need help from a generator or solar power if the situation continued”.  Traffic - Two hours less a day  No matter what mode of transport people use, everybody will be spending two hours in traffic to work and back from work.