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Tennyson was born in 1809. He was educated at Cambridge University. He died in 1892. He was the symbol of Victorian’s spirit, desire and hope. His poetry is the philosophy of faith and hope. He gives expression to the scientific spirit of the age. There is something universal in his poetry that has an appeal to all hearts-ancient or modern. The Lotos-eaters, King Arthur are the document of it. He is the mouthpiece of the Victorians. His poetry reflects the Victorian age-social, political, religious and literary. That is why, he is truly representative of that age.
. The criticism of life according to Matthew Arnold.
The people are divided in their aims. They flow with the tide without judging anything. They are going to their destination of unknown horizon, as they have no definite aim. The poet divided the people into two groups (1). Scholar Group. (2). Aimless Group.
#Q. Short note on Dover Beach: - Dover Beach is one of the short poems written by Matthew Arnold. This poem reflects the lost hope, faith and devotion to God. He rightly mentions ---
“Oh, the sea of faith
Was once at the full.”
Here the poet laments over the loss of faith on God as well as human beings.
#Q. Short note on My Last Duchess: -
I gave commands
Then all smiles stopped together.
This quotation has been quoted from the poem My Last Duchess written by Robert Browning. These lines refer to the killing of a Duchess by a 1600 century Italian Duke of Ferrara. The Duke talks to the envoy of the portrait of his wife. The Duchess was innocent pleasant, good, nature and simple. She was not in the proud and treated all equally. Even she used to make no difference between her husbands the Duke and other men. On the other hand, the Duke was proud of his position as well as of his nine hundred years aristocracy. The Duke did not like the Duchess behaviour. But he thought it to beyond his prestige to ask his wife to give up this habit. The Duke was crud and dictatorial by nature. So he gave commands to his people to kill her and thus all her smiles stopped at once.
#Q. Discuss the four causes/reason of Second World War.
In September 1939, Europe was drawn into a general war. This war is called the Second World War. The causes of the Second World War are given below---
(1). Defects of the peace treaties: the causes of the Second World War related to the failure of the peace terms of 1919-1920. Those terms, while understandable in view of the passions and hatreds engendered by the First World War, created almost as many problems as they solved.
(2). Power Polities: Power Polities were a second cause of the Second World War. Although Woodrow Wilson and other sponsors of the League of Nations had acclaimed the league as a means of eliminating power struggles; it did nothing of the sort.
(3). Economic conditions: Economic conditions were third important causes of the outbreak of the Second World War. The depression of the 1930 contributed to the coming of the war in several ways.
(4). Nationalism: Nationalism was a further cause of of the general discontent that helped increase the chances for the Second World War.
#Q. Why is Elizabethan age called the golden age of English literature?
Elizabethan period (1558-1603) is the most flourished and golden period in English literature. Due to the impact of quick decay of medieval world, rediscover of ancient learning, renaissance, widening of horizons, Elizabethan drama, new discoveries and the peaceful period without war, this age becomes the finest breeding ground for flourishing literature.
Impact of Renaissance: Renaissance played a vital role in the Elizabethan period. The Renaissance was both a revival of ancient classical mythology, literature and culture as well as a reawakening of the human mind after the long sleep of the dark Middle ages.
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