Prakruti Bhatt's Assignments

Whether it was religion or love, the metaphysical poets had their own way of writing poetry on topics concerning the human experience. Though history doesn't speak much about them, their contribution to English literature speaks a lot. Anyways, the poet I'm going to talk about is George Herbert, one of the major metaphysical poets, with special emphasis on the critical analysis of his Love 3 . Love 3 is the last poem of Herbert's poetry collection "The Temple". Written in the form of a dialogue, the poem is the third in the series of love poems of the collection. Spending the later years of his life in religious activities, George Herbert, through this collection, wanted to draw his readers' attention to the experience of true eternal love i,e God's love. Which is why, in the earlier two poems, he explains how, the love for God is higher than the human experience of love, which mostly is an "usurping lust", in his opinion. Love 3, being the la...

The Tragical History of the Life and Death of Doctor Faustus, by Christopher Marlowe, is a play dealing with the various socio-religious conflicts of the Renaissance age. It is also known for its portrayal of the constant psychological conflict inside the mind of the protagonist, who wavers to decide whether to set upon the path of virtue (God/religion) or vice (Lucifer/necromancy). As a revolt against the dark ages when religion was at the center of life, Renaissance is known for its emphasis on human life and effort. Almost all the renaissance plays focus on the idea that humans suffer the consequences of their own actions and therefore fate or destiny, which was supposed to be the cause of an individual's present situation, during the dark ages, was denied this power. Here, in the play, the protagonist, Doctor Faustus suffers downfall, not because his destiny had designed it so. But because he was arrogant of the amount knowledge he possessed. Also because he forgets the main...