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“Life is an oasis which is submerged in the swirling waves of sorrows and agonies.” ― Thomas Hardy, The Mayor of Casterbridge Introduction: Thomas Hardy, the Victorian novelist and poet, was deeply influenced by Romanticism. His works challenged the conventionalities of his…
T. S. Eliot in The Sacred Wood “Tradition and the Individual Talent” (1920): “Poetry is not a turning loose of emotion, but an escape from emotion; it is not the expression of personality, but an escape from personality. But, of…
Introduction: “The world is a comedy to those that think and a tragedy to those who feel”[[1]] Satire is a genre of literature with its roots in Roman theatre that uses humour, irony, exaggeration, ridicule, understatement and sarcasm to explore…
Introduction As tears form the basis of tragedy; laughter, contentment and happiness form the basis of comedy. Why do people laugh? Do they laugh only when they are happy? It is surely true that in congenial company people do laugh…
