Consider Swift’s Gulliver’s Travels As A Satire

Jonathan Swift’s satirical masterpiece Gulliver’s Travels is a celebrated prose work in the form of a travel book. Swift’s real purpose in writing this book was to lash humankind for its follies, absurdities, and evil deeds.  The writer employs irony, mockery, ridicule, sarcasm, and even invective as the weapons of attack, which he illustrates through different stages. … Read more

Beowulf As A National Epic

Despite being a Swedish epic, Beowulf, a long-tailed and major Anglo-Saxon literary work, is oft-recognized as a national epic of England. The Independent, November 10, 2007. Beowulf is one of the earliest Old English epic poems in English literature and is repeatedly claimed as an English national epic despite belonging to a Swedish epic root.  Although regarded as … Read more

Critical Appreciation of “Ode: Intimations of Immortality from Recollections of Early Childhood” by William Wordsworth

“The whole poem represents the passage from youth to maturity— from feelings of self-pity to compassion of all mankind.” Robert L. Cox, The Explicator, University Of South Carolina, Volume 19, Issue 6, March 1961. William Wordsworth’s “Ode: Intimations of Immortality from Recollections of Early Childhood” portrays his sheer intimacy with nature since his early childhood, … Read more