To Lucasta, Going to the Wars by Richard Lovelace Vocabulary nunnery – a home for religious women inconstancy – unfaithfulness, infidelity Explication of The Poem Tell me not , Sweet, I am unkinde, In this Read more…
Letters written to people we know very well like our parents, relatives and intimate friends are called personal (informal) letters.
Formal Letter Writing The composition of letters is most intimate and personal. It genuinely and freely reveals a writer’s feelings and moods. You may be called at any time to share your sorrow at your Read more…
The Ghat of the Only world is a friend's homage to a friend almost in the manner of the Romantic Essayists. In this essay, the writer Amitav Ghosh recalls all the memories of his beloved friend Aga Shahid Ali.
![Song: to Celia [Come, my Celia, let us prove] Summary and Analysis 5](https://i0.wp.com/smartenglishnotes.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/created_image_1589809002019.png?resize=360%2C240&ssl=1 "Song: to Celia [Come, my Celia, let us prove] Summary and Analysis 6")
This poem is one the two different poems written 400 years ago by Ben Jonson both entitled "Song: To Celia."
In this post, you will study The Jew of Malta a ‘Renaissance tragedy’written by the famous 16-century playwright Christopher Marlowe. Marlowe was a member of the famous “University Wits” and a contemporary of William Shakespeare.
Volpone or The Fox is a very famous play written by Ben Jonson . This play is a comedy and is often called Ben Jonson's darkest comedy. The emerging capitalism in the Jacobian England of James I could be seen as the playwright’s immediate focus, directing merciless moral scrutiny on the values and customs of contemporary English society.
I will discuss a popular poem namely "To Celia" by Ben Jonson. This frequently quoted poem was published in 1616 in a collection entitled The Forest. This poem is a beautifully balanced poem of unrequited love.
Arms and The Man was first published in 1898 as part of the second volume of Plays Pleasant and Unpleasant.The Arms and The Man is taken from the opening lines of John Dryden’s translation of Virgil’s epic The Aeneid.
Lullaby – About the Blessing of Silence What if songs could kill? You sing a good night song to your wife in the evening and she wouldn’t wake up the next morning? What if such Read more…
