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Philip Sydney in his " Apology_for_Poetry " reacts against the attacks made on poetry by the puritan, Stephen_Gosson . To, Sydney, poetry is an art of imitation for specific purpose, it is imitated to teach and delight. According to him, poetry is simply a superior means of communication and its value depends on what is communicated. So, even history when it is described in a lively and passionate expression becomes poetic. He prefers imaginative literature that teaches better than history and philosophy. Literature has the power to reproduce an ideal golden world not just the brazen world. Stephen_Gossen makes charges on poetry which Sidney answers. The charges are: 1. Poetry is the waste of time. 2. Poetry is mother of lies. 3. It is nurse of abuse. 4. Plato had rightly banished the poets from his ideal world. Against these charges, Sydney has answered them in the following ways :- "Poetry is the source of knowledge and a civilizing force, for Sidney....

#Queer_theo ry_and_criticism ~>> During the 1980s, the term ‘queer’ was reclaimed by a new generation of political activists involved in Queer nation and protest groups such as ActUp and Outrage, though some lesbian and gay cultural activists and critics who adopted the term in the 1950s and 1960s continue to use it to describe their particular sense of marginality to both mainstream and minority cultures. In the 1990s, ‘# Queer_Theory ’ designated a radical rethinking of the relationship between subjectivity, sexuality and representation. Its emergence in that decade owes much to the earlier work of queer critics such as Ann Snitow(1983), Carol Vance (1984) and Joan Nestle (1988), but also to the allied challenge of diversity initiated by Black and Third World critics. In addition, it gained impetus from postmodern theories with which it overlappedin significant ways. Teresa de Lauretis, in the Introduction to the ‘Queer Theory’ issue of differences (1991), traced the eme...

The epitaphs of various famous individuals associated with English_history , literature, art, and dramatic performance. Some are found on the grave-markers of tombs of writers, poets, and playwrights. Others were written by famous literary or historical figures for a lost family member. A few other epitaphs are fairly famous because of their clever wit, and they are quite artistic regardless of the relative anonymity of the deceased. The tone varies in each. Some are tragic, some humorous, some devout, and some sublime, but they are all uniquely human in sentiment. Many of them use spelling, capitalization, anagrams, and puns for artistic effect. They are listed roughly chronologically by date of death, starting in the medieval period, moving up to the Renaissance, then the Enlightenment, the Nineteenth Century, and finally the Twentieth Century. King_Alfred_the_Great ~> (849-899, ruler of Britain, founder of British navy, and translator of Boethius, monument erected in 19th ...

Robert_Frost’s poem “ The_Road_Not_Taken ” is often interpreted as an anthem of individualism and nonconformity, seemingly encouraging readers to take the road less traveled. This interpretation has long been propagated through countless song lyrics, newspaper columns, and graduation speeches. But as Frost liked to warn his listeners, “You have to be careful of that one; it’s a tricky poem—very tricky.” In actuality, the two roads diverging in a yellow wood are “ really about the same ,” according to Frost, and are equally traveled and quite interchangeable. In fact, the critic David_Orr deemed Frost’s work  “ the most misread poem in America ,” Writing in The_Paris_Review:  “This is the kind of claim we make when we want to comfort or blame ourselves by assuming that our current position is the product of our own choices… The poem isn’t a salute to can-do individualism. It’s a commentary on the self-deception we practice when constructing the story of our own lives....