friendship

Treatment of Nature in William Shakespeare’s Sonnets

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Shakespeare’s sonnets revolved around the themes of love and friendship. The fair youth sonnets represent through their order the life cycle of man. In most sonnets, nature provides the background, either by supplying the images or showing the objective co-relative for them. In his Comedies and Tragedies, Shakespeare showed his deep interest in the workings … Read more

Probing Addison’s Prose Style

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Addison is ranked among the great prose writers in English literature. His distinctive prose style adds up to his literary credit. His style consists of clarity, lucidity, and naturalness.  Addison does not try to produce effects by straining. It comes to him spontaneously because he has mastery of language is effortless. No pretentiousness, affectation, pompousness, … Read more