Poetry - Literature Diary

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Chaucer: “Nun’s Priest’s Tale” – A mock epic

According to Aristotle: An epic is the tragedy of a conspicuous man, who is involved in adventures events and meets…

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Dreams are the backbone of “Nun’s Priest’s Tale”. The story begins with a dream and ends up in a dream.…

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Humour is an essential ingredient of Chaucer’s poetry and the back-bone of “The Prologue and The Canterbury Tales”. All the…

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Homer and Virgil were the two great masters of the Classical epic. Homer’s Iliad and Virgil’s Aeneid have invariably served…

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Satan occupies the most prominent position in the action of Paradise Lost. Though the main theme of the poem is…

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This is how Milton describes Hell as Satan sees it after his fall from Heaven: At once, as far as…

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Some angels rushed towards a nearby hill, Pandemonium, a hill not far from there that emerged fire and smoke. All…

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Emily Dickinson described immorality as the “flood subject” meaning that it was a subject largely occupied in her mind and…

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Browning is an optimist, and as an optimist, he is a moralist and a religious teacher. He holds a very…

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Much ink has been spilt in proving and disproving that Browning is an obscure poet. It is hard to absolve…