English Literature

SHUAIB ASGHAR DEPARTMENT OF ENGLISH GOVT. RAZVIA ISLAMIA COLLEGE HAROONABAD, PAKISTAN The poem Wedding in the Flood is certainly about wedding ceremony which is always associated with joy and mirth. But the segment of the wedding which the poem deals with is the departure of the bride. This segment is more about the bereft and parting than any mirthful activities. The poem is a chain of expressions of unknown risks and fears. The mother of the bride expresses her fears about the nature and the attitude of the bridegroom. How will she be able to be a part of that stranger house with stranger people and environment? The parting day for her is becoming tediously troublesome. 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 tho...

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 ...

SHUAIB ASGHAR DEPARTMENT OF ENGLISH GOVT. RAZVIA ISLAMIA COLLEGE HAROONABAD, PAKISTAN     William Cuthbert Faulkner , an American writer, worked in a variety of media; he wrote   novels ,   short stories, a   play ,   poetry ,   essays   and   screenplays during his career. He is primarily known and acclaimed for his novels and short stories. He was awarded the 1949   Nobel Prize   for Literature. Some of his great works are �The Sound and the Fury�, �As I Lay Dying�, �Sanctuary�, �Light in August�, �The Hamlet�, �The Wild Palms�, �Absalom Absalom�. William was the eldest of the four children but he did not get on very well with his brothers, and these early disparities between him and his brothers caused his some anxieties which were aggravated by his father�s strange hostility to him. In the meantime, William�s father started drinking more heavily than before, with the result that William�s mother felt miserable though she did ...

SHUAIB ASGHAR DEPARTMENT OF ENGLISH GOVT. RAZVIA ISLAMIA COLLEGE HAROONABAD, PAKISTAN 1. A syllable is a sound, or a group of sounds, produced by a single chest pulse and containing a vowel. e.g. ne-ver-the-less. In other words it is a unit of human speech that is interpreted by the listener as a single sound, although syllables usually consist of one or more sounds. 2. A unit of pronunciation having one vowel sound, with or without surrounding consonants, forming the whole or a part of a word; e.g., there are two syllables in �water� and three in �inferno� . 3. A unit of spoken language larger than a phoneme. Syllables are often considered the phonological "building blocks" of words. They can influence the rhythm of a language, its prosody, its poetic meter and its stress patterns. Syllabification Syllabification is the term which refers to the division of a word into syllables. A word containing a single syllable is called monosyllabic (cat),  if it contains more than on...

SHUAIB ASGHAR DEPARTMENT OF ENGLISH   GOVT. RAZVIA ISLAMIA COLLEGE HAROONABAD, PAKISTAN Speech act is performed action via utterance. When speakers are saying words, they not only produce utterance containing words and grammatical structure, but they also perform action in those utterances, s uch as assertion, apology, greeting, request, complaint, invitation, compliment, or refusal etc. If you say,  � I will be there at six� , you are not just speaking, you seem to be performing the speech act of promising . Speech act theory belongs to the field of pragmatics . A speech act might contain just one word, as in � Sorry!�   to perform an apology, or several words or sentences: � I�m sorry I forgot your birthday. I just let it slip my mind.� Speech acts include real-life interactions and require not only knowledge of the language but also appropriate use of that language within a given culture. Here are some examples of speech acts we perform every day: Assertion:  ...