Classical poetry complete notes .(English literature).

A detailed critical summary of 'The Paradise Lost'by john Milton.The poem opens with an invocation to the heavenly muse.In seeking poetic inspiration from the heavenly muse,Milton touches upon the subject of the poem;mans first disobedience to god in eating the forbidden fruit,and the consequent f...

A summary of Edmund Spenser's The faerie queen. Gloriana queene of faerie land,has appointed a red cross night to accompany Una on a journey to her kingdom to destroy a dragon that is ravaging the land and holding Una's parents captive.

detailed notes on paradise lost by john milton.The character of satan in paradise lost poem,important lines of the poem,epic features of paradise lost and the elements of renaissance and reformation in the poem.

Detailed notes about irony,satire,humour and realism in the prologue to the canterbury tales by geofferey chaucer.

The metaphysical school of poetry arouse as a revolt and reaction against the romantic exuberance and excesses of Elizabethans.Donne's poetry metaphysical not only in the sense of being erudite and witty but in the proper sense of being reflective and philosophical.

Detailed and easy notes on John Donne's poems,'The sun rising','The good morrow',and'Death be not proud.

The style in paradise lost had to be elevated because of the sublimity of the theme, the grandeur of moral and the loftiness on the characters.

Description of the character of Belinda in the rape of the lock by Alexander pope.Most important lines in the rape of the lock.Satire and realism in the rape of the lock.

The Rape of the Lock is a mock heroic poem.The Rape of the Lock is the masterpiece of a mock-heroic because in 1714 it mocks at the maximum amount of the epic. The mockery takes different forms and employs different devices. Apart from the general mockery of the epic form and substance.

Pope’s object in introducing the supernatural elements in the rape of the lock was to heighten the mock-heroic effect of the poem and at the same time it gives reader more impersonal in tone. Pope adopted the Rosicrucian doctrine of spirits and introduced the sylphs and gnomes as the supernatural ...

Donne’s love poems cover a wide range of feeling from extreme physical passion to spiritual love and expresses varied moods ranging from cynicism and contempt to one faith of an acceptance. There are three strains in his love poems.