English Literature

Theory of poetry �Poetry is the thought and the words in which emotion spontaneously embodies itself.� Thoughts on Poetry and its Variations by Mill. Wordsworth took the hint and produced the theory of poetry which is contained in Preface to Lyrical Ballads wherein, at least two places; he points out: �All good poetry is the spontaneous overflow of powerful feeling,� and �It

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SHUAIB ASGHAR DEPARTMENT OF ENGLISH GOVT. RAZVIA ISLAMIA COLLEGE HAROONABAD, PAKISTAN Feminism as a movement has played a very vital role in projecting the suppressed status of women in the patriarchal society. In the domain of patriarchal culture, woman is a social construct, a site on which masculine meanings get spoken and masculine desires enacted. The road by Hina Faisal Imam sings a song of pinching pain about feminism over the miseries and sorrows experienced by married women. The condition of women in our country, especially in rural areas, is very pathetic, or morally and ethically incorrect. This fact has been highlighted on numerous occasions by the ill treatment of women. The Road is a very pathetic song about the miseries and sorrows experienced by the married women, who are confined to their houses. Though they are provided with all the material needs yet no one is there to fulfill the demands of their souls. They silently are registering a complaint to the sane men of th...

SHUAIB ASGHAR DEPARTMENT OF ENGLISH GOVT. RAZVIA ISLAMIA COLLEGE HAROONABAD, PAKISTAN In this poem the poet has presented a very vivid slice of life in the rural Punjab. The picture is so real that the readers who are acquainted to the culture of the rural Punjab read this poem with complete involvement and cannot help appreciating the poet�s power of portraying true poetic picture of Pakistani culture. When parents in a society like Pakistan choose a match for their daughter, they do it with a lot of fears and prayers. They feel worried because the women are not given their due rights in our society and they have very little authority in the daily affairs of life. So they have to be subordinate to their men. The bride is frightened because of these circumstances. She also thinks about her husband�s nature and disposition. She is actually in total scaring atmosphere. Same are the worries of the bridegroom for her new life partner. If only her face matches her hands And she gives me no ...

Source: http://www.historyhome.co.uk/peel/refact/preserve.htm Lord Macaulay's "Speech" (March 2, 1831, The House of Commons) It is a circumstance, Sir, of happy augury for the measure before the House, that almost all those who have opposed it have declared themselves altogether hostile to the principle of Reform. Two Members, I think, have professed, that though they disapprove of the

SHUAIB ASGHAR DEPARTMENT OF ENGLISH GOVT. RAZVIA ISLAMIA COLLEGE HAROONABAD, PAKISTAN SAMPLE PAPER NO 1 MCQs: 100 SUBJECT: ENGLISH LITERATURE FOR PPCS AND NTS EXAMS (1) The subjugation of Women (1869) is an important text of: (a) George Eliot (b) Byron (c) John Mill (d) Hardy (2) Which of the following poems by Tennyson is a monodrama? (a) Ulysses (b) Break, Break, Break (c) Maud (d) Crossing the Bar (3) The line �she dwells with Beauty � Beauty that must be� occurs in Keats� (a) Lamia (b) Ode to a Grecian Urn (c) Ode on Melancholy (d) Endymion (4) Negative Capability to Keats, means (a) The ability to sympathize with other (b) Say bad thing, about others (c) To empathize (5) �Art for arts sake� found its true adherent in: (a) Wordsworth (b) Byron (c) Browning (d) Wilde (6) It as the best of times, it was the worst of time, it was the worst � the opening of Dickens� (a) Hard Times (b) David Copperfield (c) Oliver Twist (d) A Tales of Two Cities (7) The character of Little Neil is a...