painter ..John Ashbery

John Ashbery painter ..John Ashbery critically Notes The best part about this poem is that it can be interpreted in any way you would like. He repeats the word "canvas" 7 times, "portrait" 8 times, "buildings" 7 times, "brush" 7 times, "subject" 7 times, and "prayer" 7 times. The artist is sitting out in front of the sea, imagining what he wants his protrait to look like. He expected ideas to come out so he could draw the sea, but he sat there in silence.  He didn't end up painting anything until the people who lived in the buildings told him to select a new subject to write about, something that may fit his mood better. He picked to draw his wife, but he never ended up drawing her because she is art already, like ruined buildings.  Unsatisfied, he went back to the sea and...

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If you feel like your ship is sinking,

If you feel like your ship is sinking, it might be a good time to throw out the stuff that's been weighing it down. Let go of what is bringing you down and surround yourself with what brings out the best in you...

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Life is really beautiful

Shakespear says, "Life is really beautiful when your family understands you as a friend And Your friends support you as a family...

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The Door of the Almighty.

When you think all your doors are closed, it's because you haven't yet knocked at the right door. The Door of the Almighty...

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Graduation

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Giving up doesn't always mean you are weak.

"Giving up doesn't always mean you are weak. . . . . sometimes it means that you are strong enough to let go."&nbs...

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Success is not final

"Success is not final, Failure is not fatal, it is the Courage to contiue that counts." ...

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Robert Browning: Obscurity ...

Robert Browning: Obscurity uch ink has been spilt in proving and disproving that Browning is an obscure poet. It is hard to absolve Browning of the charge of unintelligibility and difficulty. In his own age, he was considered very difficult and obscure and hence could not achieved popularity and recognition like his contemporary Tennyson. "Sordellow" was regarded as more obscure than any other poem in the English language. Mrs. Carlyle read the poem and could not judge whether 'Sordellow' was a man, or a city, or a book. Douglas Jerrold, after reading it said: My God! I am an idiot. My health is restored, but my mind is gone. Browning certainly is a very difficult poet. Dawson calls him "the Carlyle of poetry". Various reasons are given for the obscurity and difficulty of his...

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Arnold as the poet of Victorian unrest

Arnold as the poet of Victorian unrest Arnold belonged and hence he is referred to as the poet of Victorian unrest. Victorian age was the period of material prosperity, the expansion of democracy and the growth of science which had hardly any appeal to him. He is certainly more violent than anybody else to the spiritual distress of his age and this is why he is called a poet Victorian unrest and spiritual distress which is clearly shown in his poetry. In his famous poem 'Doves beach', he reacted more violently to the spiritual distress and meaningless of his age. He says religion and traditional values are east dying out. Materialism, scepticism and agnosticism are the order of the day. Men do not find comfort and happiness in Arid world .he says, "Hath really neither...

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Touchstone Method..

Touchstone Method In the study of poetry, Arnold delineates his idea of excellent poetry and formulates a practical method for identifying the true poetry -this method is named by him the Touchstone method. According to this method the specimens of the very highest quality of poetry are compared to the specimens of the work of poetry under study and conclusions are drawn in favour or against the work. This method requires to keep in ones mind lines and expressions of the great masters, and apply them as a touchstone to other poetical works.In order to find the truly excellent poetry, we should form a real estimate of poetryl as opposed to "historical estimate "and personal estimate “. Both historical and personal estimates go in vein. He argues us not to be misled by the historic...

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Six rules of happiness:

Six rules of happiness:1. Don't hate others simply because they have wronged you.2. Combat worry by having hope in the Almighty and praying excessively.3. Live simply no matter how high your status may rise.4. Expect goodness no matter how many tests you may face.5. Be generous even if you feel a slight loss.6. Smile, even if your heart may be sad.See Mor...

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look in the mirror!

If you're still looking for that one person who can change your life, take a look in the mirror...

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Aristotle's Concept of Catharsis

Aristotle's Concept of Catharsis Aristotle writes that the function of tragedy is to arouse the emotions of pity and fear, and to affect the Katharsis of these emotions. Aristotle has used the term Katharsis only once, but no phrase has been handled so frequently by critics, and poets. Aristotle has not explained what exactly he meant by the word, nor do we get any help from the Poetics. For this reason, help and guidance has to be taken from his other works. Further, Katharsis has three meaning. It means 'purgation', 'purification', and 'clarification', and each critic has used the word in one or the other senses. All agree that Tragedy arouses fear and pity, but there are sharp differences as to the process, the way by which the rousing of these emotions gives pleasure. Katharsis...

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Humor in Addison’s essays

Humor in Addison’s essays Humour in Addison’s essays is chiefly ironical and satirical. Humour and irony are related very closely in his essays. In most of the time, it is seen, where humour is expressed, he expresses that ironically. Moreover, his laughter is intended to mend, correct and rectify follies and absurdities. Irony in his essays is one of the best weapons of satire and it is a chief ingredient of humour. Courthope says, "The essence of Addison’s humour is irony." But he is more concerned with instructions and reforms than with pure entertainment. He attacks man's vices, follies which are found in his own speech. He says, "I would not willingly to laugh but in order to instruct", and accordingly, he produces laughter with the declared and avowed purpose of laughing men out...

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your behavior

Your beliefs don’t make you better person, your behavior does...

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True Friends

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smile

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be happy

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don't forget

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don't be sad

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All our dreams can

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Theme of Love in Emily Bronte's Wuthering Heights

Theme of Love in Emily Bronte's Wuthering Heights In Wuthering Heights Emily Bronte has Presented the love-relationship of Heathcliff and Catherine, but not that of the other lovers as an archetype. It expresses the passionate longing to be whole, to give oneself unreservedly to another and gain a whole self or sense of identity back, to be all-in-all for each other, so that nothing else in the world matters, and to be loved in this way forever.  Soulmates: Their love exists on a higher or spiritual plane; they are soul mates, two people who have an affinity for each other which draws them together irresistibly. Heathcliff repeatedly calls Catherine his soul. Such a love is not necessarily fortunate or happy. For C. Day Lewis, Heathcliff and Catherine "represent...

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Eliot’s Depersonalization theory

Eliot’s Depersonalization theory In "Tradition and Individual Talent", Eliot opposes the Romantic conception by advancing his theory of impersonality in art and opines that the artistic process is a process of depersonalization and that the artist will surrender himself totally to the creative work. Eliot particularly objected to the great Romantics as well as Victorians who exaggerated the need to express human personality and subjective feeling and he says, "The progress of am artist is a continual self sacrifice, a continual extinction of personality."Eliot holds that the poet and the poem are two separate things and "that the feelings or the emotion, or vision, resulting from the poem is something different from the feeling or emotion or vision in the mind of the poet." Hence, he...

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Allah notices it

It doesn't matter that people don't notice the good that you do. What matters is that Allah notices it. Never forget that...

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