The Prologue To The Canterbury Tales by Chaucer


Chaucer is the most remarkable poet of the fourteenth century English literature. Canterbury Tales is his masterpiece where he depicts realism, type and individualism. The most remarkable feature of The Prologue is the assembly of the portraits of the pilgrims. These portraits  highlight Chaucer’s finished art of drawing ,his realism and his sense of humour. From The Prologue we can infer that the characters are of middle class. The Clerk is one of the pilgrims in the way to Canterbury.
He is an impoverished student of philosophy at Oxford who lacks a true  profession. Having spent his money on books and learning rather than on fine clothes, he is threadbare and wan. He speaks little, but when he does, his words are wise and full of moral virtue.

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Agha Shahid Ali

Agha Shahid Ali, the famous Kashmiri-American poet and self-described 'multiple exile', was undoubtedly the most accomplished english-language poet of the modern era. In many poems in The Half-Inch Himalayas , Agha Shahid Ali depicts his ancestors and ancestral objects, such as bangles, Dacca gauzes, and his parents' old home, as decaying or in the process of being destroyed. These images create a sense of loss of something that cannot be regained in the poems. Similarly, the poems "Cracked Portraits" and "Snowmen" speak of ancestors, death, and decay. The speakers in both poems both acknowledge and transcend their ancestral legacies. In the poem "Snowmen," Ali depicts his ancestors as snowmen--something that is only temporary, that melts away. "Cracked Portraits" also portrays the speaker's ancestors through objects that are temporary, the cracking, decaying family paintings. The poems, "Snowmen," "Cracked
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“THE RAPE OF THE LOCK”---MOCK-EPIC POEM

The epic is a narrative poem of supposed divine inspiration treating of a subject of great and momentous importance for mankind, the characters of the story are partly human and partly divine, and the language and style in which the incidents are related are full of elevation and dignity. If a long narrative poem should satisfy all the tests of epic poetry, but if the subject which is celebrated be of a trivial nature, like the cutting off a lock of a woman’s hair, which is the story that is related in Pope’s “The Rape of the Lock”, then such a poem is called a mock-epic. A mock-epic poem is supposed to be the inspiration of a Muse and the language is stilted and grandiose, but the subject is of very frivolous and of commonplace nature. Mock-epic or mock-heroic or heroi-comical terms are applied to literary works in which the epic or heroic tradition is ridiculed. Characteristics of “The Rape of the Lock” as a mock-epic poem: 1. Parody: Hazlitt has call
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Content Words and Function Words

                                                          Content Words Content words are the words that carry the content or the meaning of a sentence.They are sometimes called open-class words.Content words contrast with function words such as articles,conjunctions,auxiliary verbs and pronouns. Nouns,verbs,adjectives and adverbs are the content words.Content words have lexical meaning but function words do not have lexical meaning.                                                            Function Words Function words are the words that do not have clear lexical meaning or obvious concept associated with them.They express grammatical relationships with other words within a sentence.Prepositions,articles,auxiliary verbs,conjunctions and pronouns are function words.They are called function words because they have a grammatical function.For example,the articles indicate whether a noun is definite or indefinite- the boy or a boy.The preposition "of" indicates possession as in
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