Saturday, 24 April 2021

6 POINTS ON ENGLISH LITERATURE

 1. Ted Hughes's Poem "The Thought -Fox" is About Thought as Fox, About the process of writing Poetry, About Thought entering the Poet's brain like the Fox emerging from darkness.

2.  In his preface to  THE ORDER OF THINGS, Foucault mentions being influenced by Borges's "Chinese Encyclopedia" . Borges was a Latin American writer.

3.  D.H. Lawrence uses the expression "a bright book of life" to describe the Novel.

4.  'Aucitya' refers to  Propriety

5.  The word Resurrect is  a back- formation

6. "In Practical Criticism" I.A. Richards links four kinds of meanings in most human utterances to four aspects. These are: sense, Feeling, Tone, Intention

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