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Canonization is the act by which the Roman Catholic Church officially declares a dead man as a saint. In John Donne's famous love-lyric ''The Canonization'' , the poet expresses his desire to be canonized or to be announced as the saint of love through excellent conceits and imageries. The love of the poet and his beloved is supreme and noble, they are models of love. So they will be immortalized and honoured as the saints of love after their death. Though no one will officially declare them to be canonized, he expects that they will be canonized through their love lyrics and sonnets. The lovers are devoted to each other as a saint is devoted to God. Thus, they are canonized by their holy passion of love . The significance of the title of the poem is exceptionally high. John Donne, who is considered to be the founder and leader of the metaphysical school of poetry, has revealed his desire to become legendary and immortal, through his love poems and lyrics. We fin...

Who is the hero of Paradise Lost? Satan or Adam? Discuss with your logics.                         or Satan embodies all the qualities of an epic hero-justify your logics with reference from the book.                            or Critically examine the character of Satan as presented by Milton in ''Paradise Lost'' Much controversy has clustered round the question as to who is the hero of Paradise Lost. The idea that Satan is the hero , or at least a type of hero is widespread, also John Milton never directly mentioned him as the hero. There are very sensible persons who advocate the claim of Satan, and others, that of Adam. Denis Saurat, a French critic puts forward the strange thesis that Milton himself is the hero of Pa...

In Shakespeare's Macbeth , Lady Macbeth is made to act as a catalyst in Lord Macbeth's evil doings. She has definitely the greatest ambition, supremacy of will, cruelty and dissimulation among Shakespearean heroines. She obviously does not lack courage. She has a paucity of intellect. She shows enormous self-control, but very little skill. To Bradley, the laying of the bloody daggers on the pillows of the grooms, as if they were determined to advertise their guilt, was a mistake on her part, which can be explained only to her lack of intellect. In comparison with her husband, she appears extremely dull.    Even though Macbeth is generally the one to have the final say in the many killings that take place in the play, Lady Macbeth plays the role of a villain alongside him. If Macbeth frets over something she has instructed him to do, she mocks him by saying that he would be less of a man if he does not follow their plan. She gives Macbeth a short lecture in deceptiveness wh...

John Millington Synge, an Irish Literary Renaissance playwright, has always used nature as background, character and symbol in his plays. Nature is the protagonist or antagonist in many of his plays specially in Riders To The Sea where nature fills the minds of the characters and mounds their actions, even their moods and fate. The play is dominated by fate in the shape of sea. In the play we find that the sea is that which provides a living for the characters of the small cottages. At the same time it is also that which causes their sufferings. In Riders to the Sea , the sea represents fate . The sea is a great factor in the life of the people of Aran Islands. It is the source of their living. Moreover, the sea gives them passage to the markets in the mainland where they go to buy or sell things. There is no alternative for them but to ride the sea to maintain their family's existence. But at the same time the sea devours the men-folk as they go out for earning their living...