CULTURAL STUDY OF TO HIS COY MISTRESS AND OTHER POEMS
NAME: AMI SOJITRA SUBJECT:CULTURAL STUDIES ENROLMENT NUMBER:
PG15101034 SEMESTER: 2 (M.A.) COLLEGE: DEPARTMENT OF
ENGLISH MAHARAJA KRISHNAKUMARSINHJI BHAVNAGAR UNIVERSITY
LITERATURE AS REFLECTION OF SOCIETY?
TO HIS COY MISTRESS
Poet address the poem to his beloved and it suggest her shyness.
There is something behind that romance which poet have avoided
BEAUTIFUL LONDON?
Diseased body of London and beautiful coat
Andrew Marvell has unseen those side or just unknown from that?
LONDON
The real face of London
“In every cry of every Man
In every Infants cry of fear”
• The poet has written about the lower class people which is not cup of tea for high class people
BEAUTY? LONDON TO HIS COY
MISTRESS
CLASS OF POET
The poet will write what he see The poet may be not aware The poet want to show only good
things and hide those ugly sides Poetry is his personal view so he can
write what he want
LEAVING INDIA
India is Stark, Ancient, Ugly…
I saw, Beautiful
Pictures; everything smell
of plastic and perfume..
Cont..
REALITY V/S IMAGINATION
Literature is fictional
Fiction
Imagination
RealityLiterature
is not always
reflection of society
CONCLUSION:
Literature is not history but it has sense of past and present
Literature get the idea from society but poet or writer add something from his side also.
Example Romantic poets have
described beautiful pictures but the poem ‘River’ by A. K. Ramanujan has described the river after flood
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