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  Whenever you study John Donne’s poetry as students, you study to see whether Donne is a metaphysical poet or he is not a metaphysical poet. At more advance level, you want to see if being a metaphysical poet is a merit or demerit. In order to see whether Donne is metaphysical poet or not, you have to go back to Samuel Johnson who first of all made comprehensive and rather baffling list of qualities of metaphysical poetry, and in order to see if being a metaphysical poet is merit or demerit, you have to study the whole pages of history how his work has been received by readers and how it has been affecting them for centuries—perhaps, more important than anything, how it affects them today when they study Donne’s poetry. Now, let us see how Donne’s poem Twickenham Garden fulfils the criteria of being a metaphysical poem. The poem sums up reactions of a lover after he has been rejected by some female friend who, he believes,   should have reciprocated and should have...

  Kinds of Pronouns: Worksheets When it comes to teaching of English in our country, teachers generally do not have time to prepare materials which increase student interactivity with concepts they teach in classrooms.The obvious outcome is that concepts do not stick and become a part of permanent memory of students. This kinds of worksheet help concepts stick and become a part of long tern memory of students.  Then, there is the issue of not having trained teachers in most of our schools. If a teacher is not properly trained, there is no possibility that he will be preparing a lot of support material for his students. Here is where this kind of worksheets can help teachers and students. It is a proven fact that reinforcement of a concept after it has taught is essential, but in most of the cases this reinforcement never comes, and, consequently, concepts do not sit in the mind of the learners. Nevertheless, this kind of worksheets increase student average interaction time wit...

  Love poems by John Donne are fantastic and they a joy for readers even today. Donne’s treatment of love is different from that of other poets who wrote about love and man and woman relationship. His poem 'Go and catch a falling star is very good example of his ever-changing stance towards women. An air of cynicism pervades this poem.  Woman loyalty and consistency in love is ever-present theme in poetry. John Donne endorses this view-point in many of his poems, but there are other poems where Donne explodes the myth of woman loyalty and consistency in love. Go and catch a falling star is one such poems. The poet starts off with many impossibilities and tells that these impossibilities can become possibilities, but it is impossible that a woman is loyal and consistent in love. He asserts that someone can catch a falling star, someone may find a mandrake which produces human children, someone may find where all the years of the past have gone, someone may teach him how to ...

 This blog post has some tests which evaluate English language skill in depth. These tests can be used and modified to be used in classrooms. Moreover, these tests given idea how more student participation can be ensured when teaching English through literature. First Year English Lesson # 1 Q # 1. Follow the given instruction to answer the questions. 1 A glass dome covered the button. Underlined word in the given sentence is: a. noun b. verb c. adjective d. adverb 2 She didn’t like his attitude . Underlined word in the given sentence is: a. noun b. verb c. adjective d. adverb 3 Norma frowned . Underlined word in the given sentence is: a. noun b. verb c. adjective d. adverb 4 All we guarantee is that you don’t know them. Underlined word in the given se...