Kinds of Reading Skill

How many reading skills are?

There are four reading skills. They are a. Skimming b. Scanning c. Average Reading and d. Study Readying

1. Skimming: The purpose of skimming is to have a general idea of what a text is about. More, specifically, we skim a text to know:

a. How it is organized

Technique of Reading

How should we read?

How we should read a piece of text basically depends on why we read the text. That is, depending on our objectives of reading the text. We may need to read it:

Slowly

Quickly

Intensively

Purpose of Reading

Why do we read?

Generally we read a topic or a text with a view to knowing and understanding some preliminaries reading. Moreover we read texts- 

  

1. To get some information

2. To learn new words and their usages

What is Reading

What is Reading?

Reading: Reading is simply defined as a possess whereby we look at and understand what is written. Reading consists of two key factors- one is Reading and another Understands. Some readers read word by word, some readers read sentence by sentence.

Tennyson is The Revolutionary Poet of Victorian Era

Discuss, Alfred Lord Tennyson is the revolutionary poet of Victorian Era.

The life and works of Tennyson are remarkable to all. From the beginning to the end of his life he seems to have been dominated by the impulse of poetry. His poems are full of knowledge. He has created his poetry about ‘Politics’. ‘Lady’, ‘religion’, ‘Science’ and ‘Society’.

Alfred Lord Tennyson is considered as the

Shelley as Revolutionary Poet

Percy Bysshe Shelley as Revolutionary Poet

1. Social change:

2. The Revolution of Shelley was a spiritual awakening:

3. After bad days come the good days: “If winter comes shall spring be far behind?”

4. Shelley’s revolutionary eagerness has shown in Ode: “To A Skylark”:

5. A true born child of the French Revolution:

6. His Dream:

7. His Idealism:  

Lord Byron’s attitudes towards love and marriage

Discussion about Lord Byron’s attitudes towards love and marriage

1. Different types of love

2. Unhappy Marriage

3. Marriage is Poisonous

4. Loveless marriage is nothing

5. Women are more aggressive than men

6. Marriage cannot bring peace without proper combination

Super Natural Elements of S.T. Coleridge

Super Natural Elements of S.T. Coleridge

S. T. Coleridge is the greatest English poet of supernatural. His supernatural imagination is controlled by thought and study. He has employed refined, suggestive and psychological methods of mystery and horror in the poem.

There are a number of impossible, incredible and fantastic situations.

Dryden’s Defends of English Drama

Dryden praises highly in English Drama and tries to establish its superiority over French by offering many arguments some of which are as follows-

1. Lively imitation of nature: The French dramatists managed their plots with greater skill and they observed the loss of comedy and the decorum (rules/norms) of the stage with greater exactness than the English. But a play is expected to be a just and lively imitation of nature.

Short Essay of Dramatic Poesy

Discuss in the essay: The essay is written moral less in the form of a dialogue or debate. It takes place among four speakers who have been given borrowed names but who have been identified with certain actual person of literary eminence of Dryden’s time. The speakers are critics (Sir Robert Howard) Eugenics (Charles Sackville), and Meander (Dryden himself). The four men agree that they should confine their discussions to drama and should not take into account other branches should not take into account other branches of literature.

  

Touch-Stone Method

The Touch-Stone Method: Arnold suggests that we should have always in our minds, lines and expressions of the great masters of poetry, and that we should apply those lines and expressions as a touch-stone method to other poetry. Of course we are not to require these other poetry to resemble (similar) those lines and expressions. Even these other poetry may be dissimilar.

Poetic Diction

Poetic Diction: Diction means word choice and poetic diction means language and usage peculiar to poetry. A collection of some special words which have been used in the poetry is called poetic diction. Diction is used between poetic and other language. Spenser’s use of archaisms in Farie Queene is very popular.

Process of Poetic Creation

Discuss about Definition of Poetry and Process of Poetic Creation.

Definition of Poetry: William Wordsworth has given the definition of poetry, “Poetry is the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings: it takes its origin from emotion recollected in tranquility (soundless atmosphere)”. Without any trying it comes from powerful feelings.

Process of Poetic Creation: The process of poetic creation occurs through four stages:

Romantic Concept of the Poet and His Function

Discussion about Romantic Concept of the Poet and His Function

a. Ordinary Individual: A poet differs from an ordinary individual not in nature but in degree.

b. Speaking to Men: A poet is essentially a man, speaking to men not speaking to other poets.

c. Living Sensibility: He has more living sensibility than others.

Function of a Poet

Short Note about The Function of a Poet

Generally a poet is he who is able to use the best words in the best orders. Wordsworth emphasizes that self-gratification is not the aim of a poet. His fiction is not the aim of a poet. His purpose is to communicate to others about his own thoughts, feelings and his own pleasure. For this reason Wordsworth calls upon the poet to come down from the ivory tower (tower of knowledge) saying, “Poets do not write for poets alone but for men.”

Romantic Movement of English Literature

Romantic Movement of English Literature

The Romantic Movement or period flourished in England during the 18^th and 19^th Centuries. It was the most prominently personified by seven renowned poets- Samuel Taylor, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, William Wordsworth, Percy Bysshe Shelley, William Blake, John Keats and Lord Byron.

Invocation

Invocation: Invocation is the noun form of invocate that means to seek inspiration, courage, encourage and guidance from the goddess when somebody is going to start any hard work; especially in the beginning of an Epic. As an epic is a hard and long narrative poem, on a great and serious subject, so before writing the epic Paradise Lost the author John Milton seeks inspiration from the holy spirits. So, it can be said that invocation means asking God or goddess for inspiration at the beginning of any difficult activities especially in an epic. John Milton begins Paradise Lost with the invocation, Sing, “Heavenly Muse.”