Essay on Typhoon A typhoon is a tropical storm associated with an area of extremely low temperature. It builds up over warm seas and feeds on the energy and moisture from water that evaporates from the surface. Once a wind…
Emily Dickinson 1830-1886 An American poetess born in Amherst, Massachusetts. Her father was a prominent lawyer, treasurer of Amherst College and a two term United States Congressman. Well-educated, Emily attended Mount Holyoke Female Seminary and Amherst College. Apart from a…
Short Storyline of Heart of Darkness The story begins with five men on a boat at the River Thames. Marlow starts telling other companions a story of an experience when he was a captain of a steamship in Africa. He…
Imperialism refers to the colonial expansion practised by European allies during the nineteenth and early twentieth century. The European imperialism in Africa had a gloomy touch in its nature which is vividly expressed by Conrad in “Heart of Darknessâ€.
Summary of Hamlet Act I. The play begins in Denmark with the news that King Hamlet of Denmark has recently died. Denmark is now in a state of high alert and preparing for a possible war with Young Fortinbras of…
Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772-1834) “Of all the poets who helped to usher in the Romantic movement, none was more original and brilliant than Coleridge†so wrote Charles Gayley. He was born at Ottery St. Mary, in the county of Devon,…
Wystan Hugh Auden 1907-1973 Wystan Hugh Auden or “Uncle Wiz†as he was more affectionately called, was a third son of a York physician. He was a not-quite modernist; not quite socialist; a Freudian; leaning toward the northern Germanic Volksmarchen…
Matthew Arnold (1822-1888) Matthew Arnold’s early life follows a path of most poets of the time: traditional schooling steeped in classical studies, Greek and Latin, French and German, frequent traveling at home and abroad. There is one difference: while other…
A tag question is type of question form which is added to a statement to invite the listener’s attention to the statement. The subject of the question tag is never a noun: it is always a pronoun.
Subject – Verb Agreement (Concord) Concord is the agreement in number and person between the subject and the verb in the sentence. The following rules my be noted. 1. A singular subject requires a singular verb and plural subject requires…
LOOK BEFORE YOU LEAP This proverb means that we should think deeply before doing any action. Rash and thoughtless action always land us into trouble. Haste always makes waste. It is prudent to look into the pros and cons of…
