Prakruti Bhatt's Assignments

Dreams, intuitions, fantasy, etc are some of the defining terms for Romantic literary technique. The Romantics relied a lot on the imaginative faculty of the human mind.  Dreams and other unconscious faculties were the base for a lot many Romantic works ranging from Blake's intuitive poetry to the dream sequences of Keats' poetry. The same was the case with the various fictional prose works and especially novels. One such significant novel is Frankenstein by Mary Shelly. Not only is the novel a manifestation of the horrible consequences of meddling with the natural cycle of birth and creation, but is also a new perspective towards the philosophical concepts like the relation of the creator and creation. One of the many interesting characters of  the novel is 'the monster' or more specifically 'the being which the protagonist, Victor Frankenstein creates', since, to put it in 'monster's' words,"he never gave him a name". The question whic...

New Criticism marked the beginning of not only a new way of the analysis of literary composition, but also of a new perspective towards literature in all its universality, no matter in what language it is written. And Richards' Practical Criticism as well as his principles regarding the types of meanings and misunderstandings while reading a literary work, is a great contribution. Also songs have been and are an integral part of our lives. And for literature they form an equally important area of study. Hence, in this post I've endeavoured to apply two major points of New Criticism theory, i.e Paradox and Impulse to one of the many popular songs by One Direction, a popular English-Irish pop boy band. The song was written by Julian Bunetta, Jamie Scott, and John Ryan. I figured it out I figured it out from black and white Seconds and hours Maybe they had to take some time I know how it goes I know how it goes from wrong and right Silence and sound Did they ever hold...