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                 "Ode on Grecian Urn" The poet or the speaker is standing before an ancient Grecian urn and addresses it. His attention is focused on the depiction of pictures on the urn . He describes the urn as a historian tells a story. He wonders about the figures on the side of the urn and asks what story they depict and from where they come. He looks at a picture that seems to depict a group of men following a group of women and wonders what their story could be. Next the speaker looks at another picture on the urn, this time of a young man playing a pipe, lying with his lover under a tree. The poet says that the piper’s unheard melodies are sweeter than mortal melodies because they are unaffected and unchanged by time. He tells the youth that, though he can never kiss his lover because he is frozen at one place, he should not feel sad, because her beauty will never remove from her face. Next, he looks at the trees surrounding the...

‘Ode to Autumn’ In this poem, John Keats describes about Autumn and human behaviour in this season. In first stanza general qualities of autumn was discussed by Keats. In second stanza and third stanza Keats described about  interjections  of autumn season. Here autumn is personified with women who interects with sun(male). In first stanza Keats presents the early staged of autumn. In autumn season weather is still sunny and warm. In autumn season flowers blooms and butterflies think that summer should never end. Here Keats is also discussed about the beauty of nature like trees, grounds and flowers. “Autumn” is rich in  imaginary , evoking the  perception  of sight, hearing, smell, taste and touch. Each stanza includes all the senses  especially  ‘smell’ and ‘touch’. The strong smell of the early morning mist, the sweet smell of flowers attracting bees and butterflies. Although visual beauty is evoked by the sun going down on th...

MYTH OF PHELOMELA “Ode to Nightingale” is a story of two sisters. One of them married the king and starts living with him in his kingdom. After some time she wanted to meet her sister(Phelomela) and king also allowed her to meet her sister. Pronce(elder one) bring Phelomela with her. King(husband of Pronce) founds Phelomela very beautiful and he raped her. Phelomela wanted to share her pain with anyone but king cut out her tongue so she could not tell anyone what happened with her. King told his wife that her sister was dead. But in real Phelomela was alive. Pronce had doubt on her husband hat he is lying with her. She starts find her sister. While searching her sister she met an old women who knows about Phelomela. That old women took Pronce to her sister Phelomela. After seeing her she got to know about all the painful incident of her sister. Pronce decided to take revenge of it from her husband of his sin. Pronce and king they both blessed with a baby boy, she killed her son ...

DIFFERENCE BETWEEN IMAGES AND SYMBOLS. Symbol is usually an object or an action that stands for something and has a deeper meaning then what is simply written in words in the book.     symbolism is only when something stands for something else, and it is very important usually in the work. Symbols are basically used in poems to compare one thing with an other one. In poetry you could use a colour as a symbol For example: O My love is like red red rose, here red is used as the symbol of love but if we see generally red is also the symbol of hate. symbolism is when you use something to represent something else. Images are descriptive language that allows you visualize everything that is going on, images are just anything that  appeals  to any of the five senses. For example: Eyes to see, Ears to hear, Nose to smell, Tongue to taste and Skin to touch or feel.   An image can consist of similes, metaphors, allegories and symbols.  ...

Terrorism: Challenges Before Humanities What is Terrorism: Terrorism is the use of fear and acts of violence in order to intimidate societies or governments. Many different types of social or political organizations might use terrorism to try to achieve their goals. People who do terrorism are called terrorists. It is difficult to explain terrorism. Terrorism has no official criminal law definition at the international level. Common definitions of terrorism refer to violent acts which are intended to create fear (terror); are done for a religious, political, or ideological goal; and which target civilians. Some definitions now include acts of unlawful violence and war. The use of similar tactics by criminal gangs is not usually called terrorism, though these same actions may be called terrorism when done by a politically motivated group. History of Terrorism: Terrorist acts or the threat of such action have been in existence for millennia. Despite having a histo...