Prospice.......by Robert Browning........Poem summary

Prospice.......by Robert Browning........Poem summary

Prospice

The famous poem "Prospice" is composed by a very popular poet Robert Browning. He is the best known for his dramatic monologue. This is a dramatic monologue. A Dramatic monologue is a dialogue of one character in which he expresses his mind without being interfered by any other character. It means a dialogue with self. Browning's monologues present a different aspect of love and its intensity. It is a personal poem of the poet expressing his feelings of courage, hope and determination. It was composed after the death of Browning's beloved wife Elizabeth. She was very close to his heart. This poem was published in Dramatic Personae in 1864.

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In this, poem Browning is high in his imagination. It also contains a note of optimism. The poet is not afraid of death. Thus, this poem is a great optimistic poem. Robert Browning is famous for his pictorial art in his writing. He presents a real-world picture in his poetry. In this poem, he paints a real picture of a dying man.This poem is a dramatic lyric in the form of monologue. In this poem, a dying man speaks throughout the poem addressing himself. The style of the poem is simple.

The poem has seven stanzas having four lines in each stanza. The first and third lines are long whereas the second and fourth lines are short. Browning has used simple figurative language in this poem.This poem is one of the best poems of Robert Browning. It is highly optimistic in style. The poem is also best known for his study of human behavior. This poem gives inspiration to readers to be strong and optimistic in every situation of life.

The poem "Prospice" is a dramatic monologue and highly optimistic in style. In this poem, the poet looks forward to meet his loving wife after death. Because this poem is composed after the death of his wife. He composes this poem in the memory of his beloved wife. Poet thinks that if he dies he will meet his wife. His death will be a great opportunity for him to meet his dear wife.

Thus the poet is very much optimistic in his thought even thought of death.

 According to him, death is a gateway to heaven where he can meet his dear wife. It is a great example of dramatic lyric. In this poem, the poet compares his experiment of meeting death with the experience of climbing up a high mountain. Just as a person who climbs on the high mountain he has to face, fog, mist, snow and storms during his ascent like that a dying man also has to face pains like physical and mental.
According to the poet when a person comes to meet death, he feels fog and mist in his throat. He feels difficulty in breathing. These are the symptoms of a dying man. He feels cold all over his body and many storms arising inside. Thus the poet says that he is never afraid of death. The poet declares that he knows that death is the greatest fear for all human beings but I do not fear death. I am a strong person. So I will face death with courage. The poet advises to all that strong persons should not fear death and face it with courage.
He further says that he sees death in a visible form standing before him. But he will not afraid of death. This is the most lively description of a dying man in this poem. It is a dramatic monologue in which only the poet speaks throughout. The poem "Prospice" is also full of philosophical touch. The word Prospice is a Latin word. It means to look forward. This poem is also very popular for its study of human behavior at the time of death.

 Now the poet imagines that the trip of his life is going to end. He has finished all his duties in life. He has achieved the highest point of life. Now he has no more work to finish. So he has no will to live. The poet further says that all the problems and hurdles of his life have ended. There are no obstacles standing in his way. But poet does not want to die like a coward. He wants to fight like a fighter.
 The poet says that he always has been a fighter. So now he also wants one fight more with death. It will be his last fight in his life. Browning is highly optimistic here. He says that the fighting with death will give him the reward of life. It will be the best reward for his meeting with his wife. Meeting his wife after death definitely will be a great gift for him. So he does not afraid of death. The poet believes that he would certainly meet with his wife in another world.
 Now poet expresses his firm resolution to fight with death in order to end all his sufferings of his personal life. The poet further says that death does not show any mercy to him. The death is so strong thing of fear for human beings but he is not afraid of her. He would not like to die in a condition of coma or insensibility like other persons. He wants to face death in full awareness so that he can taste all the pain and miseries which death brings with it.

 In other words, the poet wants to tolerate any types of sufferings and pains while dying. Here the poet shows the highly optimistic attitude of life. Now the poet declares that he is a bold man. He need not fear death. What happens If the death will change his the worst into the best. It means the death will open the gate of heaven. And It will be a great chance to meet his wife after death.

Therefore everything happens with a special cause. And the poet further thinks that all his pains and sufferings of life will end with death. Thus the poet is very optimistic about his attitude. He says that It is a thing of only a few minutes but after It, he will get peace and joy and be reunited with his beloved who is waiting for him in heaven.  This poem is a great inspiration for all human beings in this world. and inspires them to be optimistic in every situation of their life.







                         

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Dover Beach by Matthew Arnold... summary

Dover Beach by Matthew Arnold... summary

Dover Beach by Matthew Arnold

The popular poem "Dover Beach" is a famous lyric poem. It is written by the Famous English poet Matthew Arnold. It was published in 1867 in the "New Poem." This poem has an autobiographical note in it. It is an elegy giving expression to the poet's own sadness and problems in life. The poet expresses here his own doubts related to life. He saw miseries and pains of people in this world. He has given expression to his own doubts and disbelieves in the poem. He found relief in true love only. The poem Dover Beach is an excellent work of Matthew Arnold. It is an elegy expressing the misery and sorrows of human beings. An elegy is a poem expressing sorrow on something. It is judged by its theme or subject matter and not by its meter or stanza form. 

Analysis

In this poem, the poet expresses his deep sorrow for human beings In this world. Only love can give relief to human beings from their suffering. There is everywhere sorrow in the world. Nature also suffers from this misery. This poem is set near Dover, along with the Southeast coast of England. It is said that Arnold and his wife spent their honeymoon here in 1851.    

In this poem, the poet is standing alone on the beach at Dover. It is the night time. The moon is shining brightly in the sky. The rise and fall of the sea are on full swings. It is not a dark night. It is a full moon night. Everything is visible in the moonlight. The white steeps rocks, huge and big are dimly visible in the moonlight. The sand on the beach is also looking wight due to moonlight falling on it. And the moonlight is also falling on the narrow passages of sea water. The poet says that there is a silence in the atmosphere at night. There is a serious calmness everywhere in the atmosphere. The poet thinks that there is everything seeming beautiful outside but inside there are many problems and sorrows. Even nature is also suffering from the loneliness and sorrows. 

There is everyone looking calm outside but in reality, they have a great pain inside. It is really very painful for the people and the world. Here poet request Marguerite or miss Wightman to come to the window to view the beauty of the beach. The moonlight is scattering everywhere on the beach.

So the poet requests his wife to see this beauty. The air is full of fragrance blowing at night. The scene of the beach is really looking very pleasant. Every object of nature is calm and quiet. But only a harsh and rough sound is coming from the sea. Because it caused by the rise and fall of the sea waves. This harsh sound is created by the rise and fall of the sea waves. and It disturbs the peace of the beach. This harsh sound symbolizes internal sadness of the human beings in the world. 

The thrilling sound is echoed by the pebbles. In other words, this world is full of miseries and sorrow. Everybody is disturbed internally but look fine outside. The sound of the grating pebbles is the symbol of sighs and grief of human beings. Here the poet expresses his feelings that here the atmosphere is very calm and beautiful but a harsh voice of falling pebbles is disturbing the atmosphere. Like this, the world is also full of beauty and comfort outside but If you look internally there are many problems in the life of human beings. 

The voice coming from the rise and fall of the pebbles is the symbol of the human miseries hidden in the in the soul of the people. In fact, nature is also suffering from this misery inside and express his sorrow through this harsh voice. Thus the life of human beings is full of sorrow and happiness. 

Now poet thinks about a great Greek tragedian, named Sophocles, the poet further says that Sophocles was also once inspired by the Aegean sea to think over the miseries of human life. It indicates that the sea has ever been a source of inspiration to the philosophers to think over the problems of human beings. 
Now the poet observes the calmness of the atmosphere and also the harsh sound coming from the pebbles. the poet says that the sound caused by the waves striking against the pebbles is still a great source of inspiration. It symbolizes the miseries of the people in this world. There is no happiness in this world. Even the objects of nature are sufferings from loneliness and miseries. The poet again says that only human beings seem to be sad but also the objects of nature seem full of sorrow. 
The elegiac note is remarkable in the poem Dover Beach. and poet observes that the life is full of pain and sufferings. The man never enjoys it. A man works hard but he cannot get true happiness out of it. Happiness is an internal feeling of human beings. It cannot be got from outside worldly objects. 
Now the poet compares faith to the sea. The poet further says that there was a time when faith played an important role in this world. Just as sea acts as a circle around the earth. Faith also dominated the hearts of all human beings on the earth. But now It has faded from the hearts of people because of growing doubts and disbelieving. Now It is departing itself from the world and is producing miseries in the world.  
The poet again points out that there was a time when there was faith in the heart of everyone but now It has departed itself. And in place of faith doubts has taken place in the heart of human beings Now people have no faith in others. Asceticism and doubts have taken place of faith. There is no harmony among them. Therefore people are not happy even lonely in this crowded place.
The poet addresses his beloved saying that this world is full of sorrow. Love is like a light in the darkness of sorrows and miseries. The poet points out that this world seems very charming and attractive extremely but internally It does not give joy and happiness to the people. It offers nothing that can give permanent joy to them. 
It has neither joy nor hope nor light. It is an illusion. The poet says that the only thing to give the people comfort in this world is true love. True love gives people support to be strong in bad situations. True love can relieve us of the sorrows and sufferings. 
Arnold expresses the philosophy of life. He considers life full of criticism. The poet says that the people in the world run after the luxuries and worldly things to get peace and happiness. They totally ignore the reality of the world. They forget the reality of this world while achieving other things but they do not know that these worldly things cannot give them inner peace and happiness. 

The poet further says that we all are living in the world of doubts, disbelief, confusions, and struggles. This world is only full of extreme sorrows and miseries. It can not give us relief in the hard times. Only true love may be the source of consolation in a hard time.  The people are not familiar with the realities of life. They are living in the darkness of ignorance. The minds of people are filled with disbelief, doubts and miseries. So they have neither peace nor hope nor joy in their life. If happiness can be achieved, It can be achieved through love only.

 

 

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To The Cuckoo.....by Wordsworth.......Poem Summary

To The Cuckoo.....by Wordsworth.......Poem Summary

To The Cuckoo.....by Wordsworth.......Poem Summary

The "poem To The Cuckoo" is one of the best popular poems in the world of English literature. It was composed in 1802 by Wordsworth, a famous nature poet. This poem was published in his "Poems in Two Volumes", in 1807. This poem is a short lyrical poem. A lyrical poem is a short musical poem. It can be sung by a single singer to the accompaniment of a lyre. This type of musical poems expresses a single emotion. The emotions may be about love, appreciation of beauty, surprise, and grief. It is full of melodious note. It appeals more to the heart of the people than to the mind.

Like other lyrical poems "To The Cuckoo'' is also a very popular short musical poem. It expresses the power of the poet's imagination. It is a sweet melodious poem that comes out of the poet's happy soul. It is a well reputed and popular poem of Wordsworth. In this poem, Wordsworth expresses his beautiful imagination related to his boyhood days. This poem is really very close to the reader's heart. The background of the poem is spring season where flowers have bloomed everywhere in the valley. The Sun shines so pleasantly and birds are flying in the sky. The poet lies in the grass there and listens to the sweet music of bird cuckoo.

for the poet, the bird cuckoo is a bird of giving joy to others with her sweet musical voice. When the poet listens to her song, he loses in the joy of his imagination. It fills the heart of a poet with never-ending happiness.
This poem is a nature poem. There are many natural objects described in this poem, like Sunshine, trees, bushes, birds, leaves, flowers and valley. The poem expresses the poet's personal feelings also. He expresses the desire for his childhood. It expresses the true feelings of Wordsworth. Thus the poem has also the autobiographical touch in it. The poem is a live description of the poet's desires and his feelings. When we read this poem, we imagine the scene which the poet wants to show us. It is a really very charming poem. It is a remarkable composition comes out of the poet's heart after listening to the musical song of the bird. This poem fills the hearts of readers with joy. The poem consists of thirty-two lines. It is divided into eight stanzas of four lines each. This poem is a sublime work of Wordsworth.
  The poem To The Cuckoo is a  short lyrical poem. Lyrical means a short musical poem sung in the accompaniment of a lyre express a single emotion. The poet expresses his inner feelings in this poem. In this poem, Wordsworth calls the bird 'cuckoo' a happy newcomer that has come from another side. Because cuckoo is called a migratory bird and it arrives in England from the South in April and goes back at the end of the summer.
Therefore the poet calls the bird as a happy newcomer recently migrated from the South. Poet calls the bird a happy and cheerful bird that fills the valley with the joy of his sweet voice. The poet says that he has heard this sweet voice in his childhood and still he is listening in the present. The poet enjoys the song of the cuckoo.
The poet calls the cuckoo a moving voice go from one place to another. This bird flies one place to another hastily so the poet is unable to see it. The poet is lying in the grass and taking rest in the sunshine. He listens to the sweet voice of the bird cuckoo two times at one and the same time, like Koo- Koo. It seems him double sound. This voice is echoing in the valley and filling it with her sweet music. It seems to the poet as if it is travelling from one hill to another. Sometimes the voice comes from a near place and another time It seems to come from far places.
It seems that the bird is singing continuously for the valley, flowers, and sunshine. And her voice fills the valley with joy and never-ending happiness. When the poet listens to her sweet melodious song he also loses in his boyhood days when he would enjoy the nature and its objects. He enjoyed the scenery of nature and listen to the music of cuckoo bird and wanted to see her. Thus the voice of the cuckoo reminds the poet of his boyhood days. So the poet welcomes her again and again. He wants to listen to her voice again and again. and to loses in his imagination.
As the bird cuckoo is the favourite bird of the spring season. the poet also likes the bird cuckoo very much because it reminds him of his boyhood memories which were very joyful. The cuckoo is a very active bird. It flies very quickly from place to place. So It is hardly visible for the poet. For the bird, the cuckoo is more than an ordinary bird. The poet says that it is a mysterious thing for him that reminds him of his pleasant memories of boyhood days.
 The poet is very happy after listening to the sweet music of the bird as he would listen in his boyhood days. The sweet voice of the bird always attracts the poet. In his childhood days, he was very much impressed with the charming voice of the bird cuckoo. He would search it at several places such as the trees, bushes and even in the sky but every time he is unable to find him.
Here the poet expresses his feeling for the mysterious bird cuckoo. That bird is an object of love and hope for the poet. Poet says that when he was a boy, he was so much impressed and attracted by the sweet voice of the cuckoo. That time, he often wandered here and there in the fields, woods, and bushes to get a glimpse of the bird but could never see it.
He always hoped to see it one day. Even today he is listening to her sweet voice again and still, he wants to see the bird. now when the poet has left his boyhood days far behind, he can listen to the voice of the cuckoo bird again. After listening to the voice of cuckoo bird again, the poet recreates the scenes of his boyhood days. And imagines the beautiful and happy days of his boyhood. He feels very happy after thinking about his boyhood days.
The poet says that the cuckoo is really a very blessed and fortunate bird that fills the poet's heart with never-ending joy. after remembering his boyhood days poet feels happiness which he would feel in his boyhood days. He loses in the world of imagination. And the Earth seems to him a fairyland which is a perfect place for the cuckoo to live. The poet says that the cuckoo bird is really a fortunate bird that only lives in his imagination,  world of fairyland.

 

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Jane Austen.....life and works

Jane Austen---Life and works

Jane Austen was born on December 16, 1775 at a small village of North Hants. Her father was George Austen, a famous clergyman. She was a very calm girl. Before starting her career as a writer, she had studied Fielding, Sterne, Richardson, F. Burney, Sir Walter Scott, Cowper and Crabbe. She began her carrier by writing parodies and sketches. She lived unmarried till her death in 1817. She died of consumption.
Her main works--- There are five popular novels she wrote in her life.
1.    Pride And Prejudice---1797
2.    Northanger Abbey—1798
3.    Sense And Sensibility---1797
4.    Mansfield Park ---1814
5.    Emma--- 1816





               

 

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French Revolution...by Wordsworth......poem summary and explanation

French Revolution...by Wordsworth......poem summary and explanation

"This poem was written at Dove Cottage, Grasmere, in 1804. In the starting, It was published separately having a separate existence. But later It was merged in "The Prelude". 
When the poet composed this poem then King Luis 16 was ruling over France. He was a very cruel king. He was ruling over the country autocratically at the end of the 18th century. The people were brutally beaten. They were depressed. But at last, they stood up against the cruelty of the king in the form of revolution. Wordsworth gave his full support to the revolution . all people of the country celebrating the occasion passionately. People were highly enthusiastic. Wordsworth himself reached the Calais, on the first anniversary of the Revolution, on 13th, July 1790. 

When the passion of the people declined, the poet saw similar cruelty again. The situation was the same as before. The poet was very much disappointed with it. And that time there was a great fight between two groups -  the Hawks and the Doves. The Hawks wanted to bring about the change even by shedding blood but Doves wanted to bring change in the society peacefully. It was the main theme in this poem introduced by Wordsworth. Wordsworth tried to include these feelings of revolt in his poem. This poem has both feelings of celebration and discontentment. In the first half of the poem, the poet declares his imagination about heaven on earth. He says that It was really a blessing for the people of the country. In the latter part, he describes the ruin of his dreamland of heaven. 

French Revolution poem summary 

Wordsworth was a freedom-loving person. He supported the French Revolution wholeheartedly. This poem is an extract from The Prelude. but It was independently published in the magazine  The Friend on October 26, 1809, edited by Coleridge. The slogan of the French Revolution was equality, liberty and fraternity had a great charm in itself. The whole world was looking at the slogan. It was thought that the French Revolution will bring happiness with it. Even inactive persons saw their life meaningful now and were awakened and the luckiest persons were those who had been thinking of the revolution even from their childhood.

The beginning of the French Revolution was considered a chance of hope and joy. The revolutionaries had a large number of supporters. It was a blessing to be alive at that time. Those who were young also very lucky because they experienced it very well. Every ordinary nation and man wanted reform in the world. Everything was being judged by reason. The reason is also an important part of a revolution at that time. But in the beginning, the revolutionaries were divided between the aggressive and the weak. The aggressive were called Hawks. They wanted to bring reform even by shedding blood. And humble were Doves wanted to bring change in the society peacefully. Both of them wanted to build France a new nation full of happiness.

French Revolution...Poem explanation

Wordsworth calls the revolution as a happy act. The poet expresses the joy and hope of the people that came out of the French Revolution. The supporters of the revolution loved the revolution strongly. They were overjoyed. They were lucky who were living at the time of revolution but they were not less divine who was young that time' It means both the people were lucky. The revolution was romantic. The revolutionaries approved only those Laws and Customs that proved correct by reason.  People's rights were accepted in the background of reason.  Reason played a Supreme part in the French Revolution. Most of the work was being done in the name of reason. It was an attraction for the people. They believed in the reason for everything. The reason was a touchstone of every law and custom.
The youth took an active part in the revolution. The reason was the touchstone of every law and custom. People did not tolerate the cruelty of the King. Nothing could be tolerated unreasonable. Wordsworth favoured the French Revolution. He himself was a witness to it. The revival of English poetry was based upon the slogan of the French Revolution.n this stanza, the poet welcomes the revolution as a ‘pleasant exercise of hope and joy.’ The French, then, was in a pitiable condition. It was being expected that the whole universe will be transformed by the revolutionaries. 
Not only France but the whole world was expected to be changed by revolutionaries. New hopes were really more charming than their fulfilment. Everyone was happy to think about the bright future of the country. People in the country were very happy. Everyone was happy to think about the bright future of the country.
The old order was going to be changed, yielding place to new. Reason played an important role in every act at that time. Slavery was unreasonable so it was to go. New promises were made for the brighter future of the country. 
The poet says that budding rose is better than the full-blown rose. It means that promise for the future is sweeter than the fulfilment. 
At that time, the inactive people became quite active and the active ones were overjoyed. Everyone was happy to think the future happiness.E everyone was excited to see a new reformed society and they were expecting the transformation of society very soon by the efforts of revolutionaries. That time inactive persons also were taking interest in transforming the society. 
And lively and active persons were taking an active part in the revolution. They were sure of their hopes to be fulfilled.  
Wordsworth calls the revolution as a happy act. The poet expresses the joy and hope of the people that came out of the French Revolution. The supporters of the revolution loved the revolution strongly. They were enjoyed. They were lucky who were living at the time of revolution but they were not less divine who was young at that time. It means both the people were lucky. The revolution was romantic. The revolutionaries approved only those laws and customs that proved correct by reason. People’s rights were accepted in the background of reason. Reason played a supreme part in the French Revolution.
Most of the work was being done in the name of reason. It was an attraction for the people. They believed in the reason for everything. The reason was the touchstone of every act. 
The youth took an active part in the revolution. The reason was the touchstone of every law and custom. People did not tolerate the cruelty of the king. 
Nothing could be tolerated unreasonably. Wordsworth favoured the French Revolution. He himself was a witness to it. The revival of English poetry was based upon the slogan of the French Revolution.

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