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 In the sonnet, the narrator describes his beloved's proclamation of herself as "truth" i.e. she is an embodiment of truth. Our clever narrator further says that he pretends to believe that indeed she is truth although he knows that it is completely false. She might be thinking that he is some inexperienced youth who is unaware of the falseness in the world and in particular, dealings of love.  The beloved is also clever as she also tries to make him believe that he is still young. He knows that he is no longer a youth but an old man who is past his prime age. On both sides, pretensions is made but both knows the truth, but the plain truth is never spoken. Then the narrator asks the rhetorical question, why shouldn't she credit her just nature and he, admit his old age? Then he answers that in love, the "best habit" is of pretension of trust between the partners. Even though the lovers know about their partners shortcomings, they live by them with ease. This...

  In the context of Plato's philosophy, "phantasm" and "semblance" refer to two different kinds of sensory experience. A phantasm, also known as an "image," is a mental representation of something perceived through the senses. For example, the image of a tree that one perceives through sight, or the sound of a bird one hears. In Plato's theory of knowledge, phantasms are considered unreliable because they can be misleading and do not necessarily correspond to reality. A semblance, on the other hand, is a mental representation that is derived from reason rather than the senses. It is an abstract concept or idea, rather than a direct perception of a physical object. For example, the idea of justice or truth. Plato considered semblances to be more reliable than phantasms because they are based on reason and not subject to the limitations and errors of sensory perception. Overall, Plato's philosophy emphasizes the importance of reason and intellect...

Dickinson talks of Hope, which is personified here as a sweet singing bird that continues to sing even when the gale is blowing. It exasperates the Gale who tries to show his strength to intimidate the bird but that doesn't happen. Of course, its bravery in singing in the presence of gale gives warmth/support/hope to others. The narrator says that she has heard it, seen the bird's presence in the harsh places and "strangest sea" but the bird never asked a crumb from the narrator, in other words, it doesn't require  Analysis Unarguably, the narrator compares hope with a bird. A hope resides in human soul because it is beyond the harsh crude real world. It could be said that it is like a source of light in the soul. Hope motivates us even when there is no respite outwards, it has his own song when there aren't words and it never stops. In other words, hope never dies even in dire situation but we hope that things will be better soon. In the next stanza, misfortu...

 Staff Selection Commission (SSC) conducts Junior Hindi Translator exam every year. The exam is a lucrative opportunity for the candidates with postgraduate degree especially in either English or Hindi to bag a central government Group B job. In this post, I am going to explain how one can prepare for this exam, but before coming to the strategy section, please go through the eligibility criteria for this examination: source: https://ssc.nic.in/Portal/Notices EXAM PREPARATION Now, coming to our strategy which you can implement in order to sail through this exam. The examination tests your English grammar and Hindi Vyakaran knowledge in addition to testing your translation skills from English to Hindi and vice-versa. It also demands acquisition of a sound vocabulary of both the languages. For Paper I :  This paper comprises of  total 200 questions of 200 marks.  English grammar - 100 questions Hindi vyakaran - 100 questions I would suggest you to begin your preparati...

English literature is still enigma for many people out there. Many people I encountered still have some fallacies related to it. Moreover, many high school students too are unaware of what is taught in English college/universities classes because most students don't suo motu read outside the limited excerpts taught in their curriculum. So, this post is chiefly for those school students who wish to study English in college, but any person curious about literature can read it, of course. Here are some things which I noticed, feel free to disagree and I would request you to share your experience in the comment section. 1) Study of English grammar : I have encountered many students who took admission in MA English just to hone their grammar knowledge or they expected to learn nouns and verbs once again. Some of them had been struck by lightning when they came to know that they were going to study love poetry. John Donne? Brothers, you could take a leaf out of his poetry to impress...

  Brief summary This poem is one of the well-known dramatic monologues of Browning. It raises his recurring infatuation of transcending death and the belief of life after death as hailed in Hindu mythology. The title of the poem is revealing too as the meaning of the word "prospice" in Latin is to "look forward". Browning stands against the mighty death as he is a fighter and he insinuates that this could be his "the best and the last" fight. He knows it very well that despite being a brave man, he could not straightaway beat death, he is ready to embrace death like "the heroes of old". He can imagine that all the "pain, darkness and cold accompanying death end in "a minute". It is merely a task of holding on for moments of anguish, then calmness will prevail. A divine light will appear followed by his beloved, whom he has been missing for in his lifetime and finally with her and the God. Literary devices "fear...feel...fog......

The Heart Asks Pleasure First This poem by Emily Dickinson marks the Death as a savior to all sorts agonies of life. Dickinson’s style of using dashes recurs in the poem. The heart or the emotional side of the narrator asks first for pleasure. If its need is not catered, it wants to be excused from the infliction of pain. Then the sufferings from the pain try to be suppressed with the help of anodynes and painkillers. The painkillers fail to do its job of relieving. It is felt by the narrator to fall asleep to pass the egregious state. Sleep too is unable to soothe her. Now, her final request to the “Inquisitor” i.e. God to confer the “privilege to die” peacefully as the last resort. I Never   Saw A Moor The poet confesses that she has never seen a moor but she is well aware of how heather, a shrub grown on the moor, looks like in real. She is also acquainted with the roar of sea tides without actually experienced the sea in first person. She clarifies that ...